Silvia Bovenschen

Silvia Bovenschen (5 March 1946 in Point bei Waakirchen, Upper Bavaria — 25 October 2017 in Berlin) was a German feminist literary critic, author and essayist.

In the course of the protests of 1968, she co-founded the women's council of the Socialist German Student Union.

In 1979, she earned a doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt with her work Die imaginierte Weiblichkeit ("The imagined femininity").

[5] Bovenschen lived in Charlottenburg, Berlin with her partner Sarah Schumann [de] (1933–2019).

[3] In an interview just before her death, Bovenschen described herself as an intellectual and a feminist who emphasised on "style" and "beauty".