Bloße „Objekte staatlicher Maßnahmen"?

How do concepts of gender shape our legal system — and how does the law, in turn, affect the emergence of such concepts? This study argues that such questions have not only been the concern of twenty-first-century scholarship. In the form of the women's movement of the German Empire and the Weimar National Assembly, it explores two key arenas in which women of their time negotiated the interplay between law and gender. The study not only addresses structures of legal discrimination but also considers the women's movement as a potential space in which the first female parliamentarians could learn and gain experience for their work in the Weimar National Assembly.