Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918, livre ebook

Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. By looking at a wide range of sources and employing rich historiography, this collection investigates the currents of women’s emancipatory efforts in a climate of conflicting assumptions relating to nationhood and nationalization. This book sheds light on a time when both women and nations were working to assert themselves, and how women promoted the national cause in an attempt to assume stronger roles in the public sphere. The volume studies areas that were nationally mixed and linguistically plural, thus pointing to the dynamic role of peripheries and pluralism affecting women’s approaches to and experience of nationalization. These essays speak to women’s agency as individuals and members of the social networks, and their roles in cultural, ethnic, and political movements in pluralistic societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thereby arguing that they “enacted” borders and were not simply acted on by them, while also elucidating the ways they transgress the borders.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Marta Verginella
1. Women National Activists on the Margins of the Habsburg Monarchy during the Long Nineteenth Century, by Irena Selišnik and Marta Verginella
2. Patterns of Romanian Women’s Civil and Political Engagement in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Transylvania and Hungary, by Oana Sorescu-Iudean and Vlad Popovici
3. Linguistic Policy and Pedagogical Issues in the Schools of the Austro-Hungarian Littoral: The Participation of Women in Public Debate, by Natka Badurina
4. The Slavic-Reciprocity Through the Female Gaze: Elizaveta de Vitte’s Travels for the Building of a Slavic Cultural Network Before World War I, by Cristina Cugnata
5. Carolina Coen Luzzatto: A Jewish Journalist in Gorizia at the End of the Habsburg Empire, by Tullia Catalan
6. Gender, Nation, and Transgression: The “Sevillian” Lola Montez, “Spanish Femininity,” and European Bohemia, by Xavier Andreu-Miralles
7. The Painter Ivana Kobilca and Her Use of Social Networks, by Urška Strle and Beti Žerovc
8. “My spirit is reaching to you with sympathy”: Zofka Kveder’s Correspondence as a Matrix of the Feminist Social Network of the Early Twentieth Century, by Katja Mihurko Poniž
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