Von der Antiautorität zur Diversität

This article analyzes the dimensions of inequality in Kinderläden (anti-authoritarian children’s nurseries) and other alternative educational preschool institutions inWest Germany in the 1970s from the perspective of intersectionality. A distinction is made between theoretical discussions about equal opportunities, gender equality and compensatory education on the one hand, and the social composition of the Kinderläden on the other. In practice, they were socially homogeneous and mainly attended by the children of academic parents. The resulting tensions, which also concern parents’ initiatives today, are shown in their historical genesis