Feministische Mädchenarbeit e. V.

The association Feministische Mädchenarbeit e. V. (FeM e. V., “Feminist Work with Girls”) was founded in 1986 in Frankfurt am Main by activists from other autonomous women’s projects in Frankfurt and by specialist women from girls’ residential group work and youth work. Since 1990 the association has run the FeM Mädchenhaus (FeM Girls’ House). The association is a non-profit, recognised institution of independent youth welfare and a member of the Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband (Der Paritätische).

Concept

The founders, who came out of the new women’s movement, criticised the prevailing orientation of social work towards male-dominated lifeworlds and gender hierarchies and campaigned for an integrative, gender-aware and respectful support of girls in professional youth work. They built up new institutions and networks for work with girls. Since then FeM e. V. has been developing pedagogical concepts with services in counselling, in crisis intervention following experiences of violence, and in open educational and cultural work for girls and young women. The pedagogical work is guided by the fundamental conviction that girls should be able to develop there freely and on an equal footing according to their own ideas, irrespective of their social situation. The association plays a decisive part in anchoring holistic, feminist work with girls structurally within social and women’s policy, among others in the city of Frankfurt am Main.¹²³

History, foundations and development of work with girls in Frankfurt am Main

Location of the FeM Mädchenhaus at Eschersheimer Landstraße 354 in Frankfurt am Main
Foto: Karin Kraus

Feminist work with girls as a sub-field of practical social work was called for and developed in the 1970s by female academics and specialists from youth work and youth welfare. The activists drew on the demands of the first and the new women’s movement, which were concerned with the social equality, equal worth and equal rights of women. Fundamental rights such as the right to vote and the right to a comprehensive education and to gainful employment for women had already been demanded, and partly achieved, by the first women’s movement around 1900. Under the claim “The private is political”, women in the new women’s movement also brought the wide prevalence of sexualised violence within the family environment into public discussion. This debate made possible a reshaping of academic, pedagogical and psychotherapeutic approaches in institutional policy on women and girls.⁴⁵

The activists of the 1970s criticised the fact that the prevailing work with girls was oriented towards a conservative image of women which, even after the binding introduction of coeducational forms of schooling and youth work in the 1950s and 1960s, still envisaged the upbringing and education of girls for a “domestic sphere of life”.⁶ After that, girls formally had the same access as boys to school and university qualifications, but the pedagogical concepts had remained unchanged and were oriented exclusively towards the needs and interests of boys. School and vocational education systems excluded girls from technical and scientific subjects and occupational groups in a gender-stereotypical manner. Curricula and textbooks conveyed male-shaped knowledge and established it as the norm. The German Youth Welfare Act dating from the 1960s also promoted the adaptation of girls to patriarchal moral conceptions and claims to power.⁷ Impending neglect and offences against morality were, under the youth welfare law of the time, grounds for committing girls to closed residential care institutions.⁸

In the women’s centres and women’s groups that emerged from the new women’s movement, women examined their own experiences of life and socialisation in the prevailing patriarchal society. On the basis of these insights, the political movement of feminist work with girls developed and realised in the following years, throughout Germany and also in Frankfurt am Main, a range of its own services, such as drop-in and counselling centres, places of refuge for girls and holistically oriented girls’ houses. The new infrastructures opened up safe spaces for protection, residence, development and education exclusively for young women and girls, with a fundamental change of perspective: feminist work with girls no longer took its bearings from male standards and traditional gender roles, but instead focused on fostering the individual strengths and competences of girls and women.⁹

At the same time professional networks on the subject of work with girls came into being, such as working groups, specialist forums, task forces and regional working associations (among them amanda – Projekt für Mädchen* und junge Frauen*, Munich, founded in 1978).¹⁰ In 1984 the expert reports of the Federal Government’s 6th Children and Youth Report on the Verbesserung der Chancengleichheit von Mädchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Improving equality of opportunity for girls in the Federal Republic of Germany) described for the first time from the side of the state the social inequality and disadvantage of girls resulting from socialisation. These studies created a rationale and a working basis for changing child and youth welfare services and for increasing attention to the needs of girls and young women.¹¹

In the 1990s, after 30 years of debate on reform, the German Youth Welfare Act was replaced by the Child and Youth Welfare Act (SGB VIII), which anchored the equal promotion of girls and boys while taking account of their differing life circumstances.¹²

Frankfurt Guidelines on the Promotion of Work with Girls

In 1995 the Magistrat of the City of Frankfurt am Main, working together with specialists in work with girls, drew up a funding and support model for work with girls – the first city administration in Germany to do so. The Frankfurter Leitlinien zur Förderung der Mädchenarbeit in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe (Frankfurt Guidelines on the Promotion of Work with Girls in Child and Youth Welfare) were introduced and supported jointly by the departments for Women and Health (then headed by Margarethe Nimsch) and for Social Affairs, Youth, Personnel and Organisation (then headed by Achim Vandreike).¹³ The Frankfurt Guidelines on work with girls were regarded throughout Germany as a model to follow.¹⁴

Founding and self-image of the FeM Mädchenhaus: a holistic understanding of feminist work with girls

Sign at the entrance of the FeM Mädchenhaus at Eschersheimer Landstraße 354, Frankfurt am Main
Foto: Karin Kraus

The association Feministische Mädchenarbeit e. V. (FeM e. V.) was founded in 1986 by specialist women from girls’ residential group work and youth work as well as by activists from already existing autonomous women’s projects in Frankfurt: the association Frauen helfen Frauen e. V. (autonomous women’s shelter), the Feminist Women’s Health Centre (FFGZ) and the Feministisches Interdisziplinäres Forschungsinstitut (FIF, Feminist Interdisciplinary Research Institute, 1983–2001).¹⁵ The experts from various areas of work with women and girls criticised the limited opportunities for education and self-development available to girls under coeducation and campaigned for a gender-specific concept in work with girls. In addition, practice in the autonomous women’s shelters showed that girls and young women were increasingly affected by sexualised violence and sexual abuse within families and in their immediate environment. The academic study by the Frankfurt Feministisches Interdisziplinäres Forschungsinstitut entitled Zur Situation von Mädchen in der offenen Jugendarbeit in Hessen (On the situation of girls in open youth work in Hesse) confirmed these experiences.¹⁶

The aim of this association, which had emerged from partisan work with women and girls, was to advise and support girls in planning their own independent lives; at the same time, girls and young women threatened by or affected by violence were to receive accommodation, refuge, counselling and therapy. The association also engaged in advising other institutions and in public relations work on the subject of feminist work with girls.

The founders of the FeM Mädchenhaus came together from various occupational groups such as health and social work, psychotherapy, pedagogy and research, and developed new principles for work with girls on an interdisciplinary basis and under one institutional roof. Holism in feminist work with girls meant not reducing girls to a symptom or a disorder, but perceiving and valuing them in their whole personality and their environment: “A girl does not only have a problem or cause problems; at the same time she has dreams, fears, needs, knowledge, skills, wishes and longings […] A girl with experiences of sexual abuse is not only a victim, but may at the same time be a cheeky brat, show signs of puberty, long for a love relationship, have a crush on a boy band or be annoyed with her teachers.”¹⁷

The educators called for gender-homogeneous spaces of development and protection for girls and young women, free of any demand for achievement and without the participation and judgement of boys and men. What mattered to them was “the free space in which girls and women have the opportunity to develop and name anew, and to experiment with, contexts of work and life according to their own specific standards and needs.”¹⁸

The association’s fields of work

Window of the FeM Mädchenhaus at Eschersheimer Landstraße 354 in Frankfurt am Main
Foto: Karin Kraus

As places of self-assurance and of sharing common and individual experiences, meeting points, communication spaces and counselling, educational and leisure services were set up, along the lines of the working methods of other women’s projects such as the FFGZ and the women’s centres in Frankfurt am Main. As a protected space from male and domestic violence and assault, housing options were created for short- and longer-term accommodation of young women of full age and for taking minor girls into care.¹⁹

Since December 1987 FeM e. V. has offered counselling and help with problems at school and in the family to girls aged 12 and over and to young women up to the age of 25 in the Frankfurt district of Eschersheim. In October 1990 FeM e. V. expanded its services and, as a pilot project, opened the Zuflucht (Refuge), a girls’ house providing short-term protected accommodation for girls and young women.

Further focal points of the institution’s work lay in the further development of forms of therapy (trauma, gestalt and body therapy, systemic therapy, supervision and others) and in corresponding further training for pedagogical professionals and staff.²⁰²¹

Today the areas Mädchen*zuflucht (girls’ refuge), Mädchen*beratung (counselling for girls), multilingual online and chat counselling, Mädchen*treff (girls’ meeting place), empowerment, protected flats and the Mobile Beratung und Begleitung zur Intervention bei Gewalt (moBBI, mobile counselling and support for intervention in cases of violence) are located under one institutional roof.²² The association’s working concept is based on a feminist position that critically examines the life situation of girls* and women* and opposes all forms of violence and discrimination. The association supports girls* and young women* from diverse cultural backgrounds and gender identities. FeM e. V. also takes part in the political and professional debate on the implementation and further development of the rights of girls and women, for example in the implementation of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, which came into force in 2014.²³²⁴

Services

Over the past years the association has repeatedly expanded its services and projects and adapted them to the changing needs of girls* and young women*. It offers both help in acute emergencies and a protected, sheltered space for all questions of identity formation of girls* and young women*.²⁵

Counselling, support and therapy services

The association’s main field of work continues to be the counselling and therapy of girls* and young women* aged between 12 and 25 who currently experience, or have experienced in the past, psychological, physical, sexualised and also digital violence. Cultural conflicts, disputes in the parental home, problems at school and questions about sexual orientation are also part of the counselling spectrum, as are all the other topics that can preoccupy girls* and young women* at this age. Since the association was founded there has been the Mädchen*treff, open daily – an open educational, cultural and leisure facility for girls* between 10 and 21 years of age. It offers meals, homework support as well as leisure and holiday activities.²⁶ Since 2016 the FeM Mädchenhaus has offered multilingual online counselling,²⁷ and since 2019 individual chat counselling as well. The programme Empowerment for Girls* is aimed at girls* and young women* from 10 to 25 years of age. It offers coaching in individual and open group discussions on the participants’ current concerns.

Refuge and housing

The Zuflucht is the only anonymous transitional facility for girls* aged between 12 and 17 in Frankfurt am Main. At the secret address, those affected find short-term accommodation, support and protection from threat in emergency and crisis situations. In 2019, 57 girls* made use of this protection service.²⁸²⁹ The FemJa protected flats are a transitional facility under the Child and Youth Welfare Code. They offer longer-term protection and accommodation for up to six young women* of full age who are affected by violence and forced marriage. The association also offers help and counselling to girls* and young women* who have been forced into marriage or are to be forced into marriage, or who are threatened with forced repatriation to their parents’ country of origin. On all these topics, relatives and friends of the girls* affected can be included in the counselling. Since 2017 FeM e. V. has offered mobile counselling and support for intervention in cases of violence and an emergency-bed flat for young women* aged 18 to 21 (moBBi). The project is accompanied by a research team from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which investigates the needs and provision for young women* of full age in acute situations of violence within the municipal support system. The start-up phase of the project was supported by funds from the Hessisches Ministerium für Soziales und Integration and by donations.³⁰

Further training and continuing education for professionals

Another focus of the FeM Mädchenhaus is the counselling of professionals and multipliers (such as educators, psychologists, doctors, teachers, staff of the youth welfare offices and of the judicial sector) who have knowledge of suspected cases of physical, emotional or sexual abuse. The aim is the further training of multipliers and interested parties as well as the networking of institutions in the field of youth welfare. Topics include trauma pedagogy, sexualised violence, anti-sexism and perpetrator strategies. Since 2011 the counselling centre has organised further training courses for pedagogical professionals within the framework of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft feministischer Einrichtungen gegen sexualisierte Gewalt on behalf of the Hessisches Ministerium für Soziales und Integration.³¹

Cooperation projects

One of the houses of the housing project “Lila Luftschloss”, which originated at FeM, at Wittelsbacher Allee 27 in Frankfurt am Main.
Foto: Karin Kraus

Since 1991 FeM e. V. has run the Lila Luftschloss – Frauenwohnungsbaugenossinnenschaft eG. (a women’s housing cooperative) together with the association Frauen helfen Frauen e. V. (autonomous women’s shelter). The autonomous women’s/lesbians’ housing project follows on from the Frauenwohnungsbau-Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main of 1916 and 1926 and is active in developing housing projects suited to women’s needs. At present there are two properties (as of 2020) in the districts of Bornheim and Gallus, with housing units for single mothers with children and for women’s flat-sharing communities with and without children as well as for women living alone of various ages.³²

Since 2019 FeM e. V. has been involved as lead organisation for the Rhine-Main/South Hesse region in the pilot project Hessen-gegen-Ehrgewalt (Hesse against honour-based violence) of the state of Hesse. The Hesse-wide pilot project aims to strengthen the support structure for those affected, to close existing gaps in provision in access to counselling and protection in Hesse, and to realise Hesse-wide quality standards and innovative prevention work. The pilot project, funded by the Hessisches Ministerium für Soziales und Integration, is being implemented by ten specialist organisations in a two-region model. Among them in Frankfurt am Main are FIM – Frauenrecht ist Menschenrecht e. V., RAHMA – Muslimisches Zentrum für Mädchen, Frauen und Familien e. V. and Wildwasser Gießen e. V.³³³⁴ The project „Stärkende Worte“ – Frauen schreiben an Mädchen in Not (“Strengthening words” – women write to girls in need) is funded by the Stiftung Citoyen – Aktiv für Bürgersinn, Frankfurt am Main (as of 2020).³⁵ In 2010 the Schutzengel-Kreis (Guardian Angel Circle) was founded with the aim of securing the work of the FeM Mädchenhaus in the long term. The patron of the charity campaigns is the writer Nele Neuhaus.³⁶

Organisational structure and budget

Around 25 staff members with different qualifications (among them social pedagogues, social workers, psychotherapists and psychologists) work at the Mädchenhaus in various working models, flexibly and around the clock. The sponsoring association is run by the Mitfrauenversammlung (members’ assembly), a five-member board and a special representative. In 1986/87 the association received 119,000 DM from the Commissioner of the Hessian State Government for Women’s Affairs for drawing up the concept and for setting up the Mädchenhaus. From 1988 to 1990 the FeM Mädchenhaus was funded as a pilot project by the Hessian State Government.³⁷ Since then the FeM Mädchenhaus has received financial grants from the City of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse, donations and funding from foundations.³⁸³⁹ The first lockdown in the course of the coronavirus pandemic in particular made counselling work more difficult; the costs for hygiene measures and for the equipment needed for digital counselling increased, while domestic isolation in many cases led to an increase in experiences of violence.⁴⁰

Founders and staff

Board members and staff include Nora Bösel, Marion Busar,⁴¹ Karin Naber, Jessica Ruth,⁴²Rose Schreieck, Carmen Tobias-Utecht, Sinah Klockemann⁴³ and Charlotte Busch.⁴⁴⁴⁵ The founders of the FeM Mädchenhaus included Christiana Klose⁴⁶⁴⁷(co-founder also of the first girls’ meeting place in Germany, IB Gallus in Frankfurt am Main), Christa Seidel⁴⁸⁴⁹ (co-founder also of the Lila Luftschloss eG) and Mareile Wackerbarth (Feminist Women’s Health Centre Frankfurt).

Publications

Seidel, Christa (1987): Feministische Mädchenarbeit: das Mädchenhaus in Frankfurt. In: Sozial extra: Zeitschrift für soziale Arbeit und Sozialpolitik, No. 11, pp. 18–19.
n. a. (1987): Modellprojekt Mädchenhaus Frankfurt. In: Brinkmann to Broxten, Eva/Fuchs, Claudia/Kiltz, Elke/Schäfer, Brigitte/Sellach, Brigitte in cooperation with WEIBH e. V. (ed.): Ohne Netz und doppelten Boden: Frauenprojekte & Frauenpolitik in Hessen. Frankfurt/M.: Zypresse Druck, pp. 34–35.
Annual reports of the FeM Mädchenhaus, from 2013 onwards. Online at: http://www.fem-maedchenhaus.de/downloads (accessed 15/08/2021).

General literature on feminist work with girls

Brückner, Margit (1996): Frauen- und Mädchenprojekte. Von feministischen Gewissheiten zu neuen Suchbewegungen. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, ISBN 978-3-8100-1656-0.
Busche, Mart/Maikowski, Laura/Pohlkamp, Ines/Wesemüller, Ellen (2010): Feministische Mädchenarbeit weiterdenken. Zur Aktualität einer bildungspolitischen Praxis. Bielefeld: Transcript, ISBN 978-3-8376-1383-4.
Deinet, Ulrich/Sturzenhecker, Benedikt/von Schwanenflügel, Larissa/Schwertheim, Moritz (2021): Handbuch Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-658-22562-9.
Heiliger, Anita/Kuhne, Tina (1995). Feministische Mädchenpolitik. Munich: Frauenoffensive, ISBN 978-3-88104-233-8.
Kunert-Zier, Margitta (2005): Erziehung der Geschlechter. Entwicklungen, Konzepte und Genderkompetenz in sozialpädagogischen Feldern. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-531-14657-7, therein: Mädchenarbeit-Phasen, Konzepte, Diskurse, pp. 22–56.
Wallner, Claudia (2006): Feministische Mädchenarbeit. Vom Mythos der Selbstschöpfung und seinen Folgen. Münster: Klemm und Oelschläger, ISBN 978-3-932577-70-3.

External links

Website of the FeM Mädchenhaus
FeM online counselling for girls and young women

Machine translation: This article was translated automatically from the German original.

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