ABSTRACT
Derived from the Old Danish qwinne, Kvinde (plural Kvinder) is actually the genitive plural of Kone (wife). It refers to a person of the female gender.1
From “Another Defense of Woman’s High Aptitude,” a brief article in Copenhagen’s Flying Post (1834), where Kierkegaard’s pseudonym A derides Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s attempt to open his philosophy lectures to both sexes,2 to the later direct outbursts against women, pastors, and the Danish Lutheran Church, there is plenty of evidence to show that women were never far from Kierkegaard’s thought. Indeed, definitions of what woman represents are attempted in the signed communications, as well as in all three existence-spheres of the pseudonymous works.
