After finishing it in 1979 it got published in 1980 under the pseudonym Judith Offenbach and turned out to be a significant influence to the German-language lesbian movement of the time.

In her 1980 essay, "German as Men's Language: Diagnosis and Therapy Ideas" (Das Deutsche als Männersprache.

Diagnose und Therapievorschläge) , she wrote that standard German has a built-in bias favoring males, that this is problematic, and that the simplest solution to the problem lies in partial de-genderization of the language.

Due to the expected non-acceptance of such a proposal, she pleaded for the stepped up use of Binnen-I (e.g., SchülerIn (schoolchild) ) in order to avoid use of the paired-word form, Schülerinnen und Schüler (schoolgirls and schoolboys).

[5] The association BücherFrauen [de], a network of women in the book industry, chose Luise F. Pusch as "BookWoman of the Year" 2004.