The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-SalomA© (1861–1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898 This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-SalomA©’s significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles одтвк of women’s emancipation Born in St Petersburg to a German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-SalomA© has always been a figure of interest because of her close relationships to influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud Only since the mid-1980s, however, have her prose fiction and theoretical writings been reconsidered as important documents of emerging ideas and debates in twentieth-century feminism The ten stories of The Human Family drive home her critical perspective on feminine stereotypes They depict a wide variety of young women as they relate to men representing different degrees of enlightenment and tolerance, struggling to express a complete and independent feminine identity in the face of the confining but often seductive roles that convention and tradition impose on female potential The Human Family provides a subtle and nuanced perspective on European feminist writing from the turn of the last century by a woman writer who was intimately involved with the literary mainstream of her time and whose theoretical and literary works played a significant role in feminist debates of the period, prefiguring present-day feminist discourse on essentialism and constructivism.  Somewhe2005 г Мягкая обложка, 208 стр ISBN 0803259522.