Johanna Elberskirchen [SEP] place of death
Johanna Elberskirchen
Johanna Elberskirchen (11 April 1864 in Bonn – 17 May 1943 in Rüdersdorf) was a feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, gays and lesbians as well as blue-collar workers. She published books on women's sexuality and health among other topics. Her last known public appearance was in 1930 in Vienna, where she gave a talk at a conference organised by the World League for Sexual Reform. She was open about her own homosexuality which made her a somewhat exceptional figure in the feminist movement
in 1903 and "Feminism and Science" by Johanna Elberskirchen in 1902. Elberskirchen said: "The truth is that when scholars make opinions concerning females, they are too much man ("Mann") and too little or not at all scientifically reasoning human ("Mensch")." (Elberskirchen 1902 p. 4) In other writings (such as "Sex and Head Size") Moebius tried to support his theses but his comments actually showed his misunderstanding of brain anatomy and brain physiology. "On the Physiological