Progressive Women's Movements in Austria and Hungary

Conflict, Cooperation, Circulation

Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner (Autor)

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336 Seiten

2025
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07277-1 (ISBN)

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, three trailblazing women's associations emerged from the Austro-Hungarian middle class: Vienna's Allgemeiner österreichischer Frauenverein (AöF) and Budapest's closely linked Nőtisztviselők Országos Egyesülete (NOE) and Feministák Egyesülete (FE). Spearheaded by educated professional women, these groups championed progressive and often radical ideals, forging robust international connections with other women's movements. However, the shifting political landscapes in Austria and Hungary eventually led to their decline and near-erasure from history.

In Progressive Women's Movements in Austria and Hungary, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner delves deeply into these movements, transcending conscribed national narratives to uncover the daily workings of these Austrian bourgeois-liberal and Hungarian feminist organizations. She reveals how they both influenced and were influenced by international activism. Unlike their contemporaries in the Christian-Social and Socialist Democratic women's movements, the AöF, NOE, and FE operated independently of official political parties, leveraging the influential connections of their leaders and using strategic publicity to garner support. Despite their mutual inspirations and connections, particularly with German movements, these organizations had significant differences. They varied in their origins, their ability to engage rural members, and their strategies for achieving their goals.

Fedeles-Czeferner employs entangled history methodologies to examine these organizations' foundations, key figures, memberships, objectives, and activities during World War I. By challenging regional narratives that have marginalized these radical women's movements, she reconnects Austria-Hungary's pre-war feminist past to its transnational roots, revealing their true historical significance.

Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner is Junior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HUN-REN). She is the author of two monographs in Hungarian. This is her first book to be published in English.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
1. Scholarship on the bourgeois-liberal, feminist movement in Hungary and Austria
2. Austria-Hungary in the fin de siècle
3. The Austro-Hungarian women's movement until the fin de siècle and the different branches of women's movement
4. The Austrian association: The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein
5. The Hungarian associations: Nőtisztviselők Országos Egyesülete and Feministák Egyesülete
6. Similarities and differences among the three associations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.5.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Hungarian History
Zusatzinfo	11 b&w illus., 12 charts, 6 b&w tables
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-07277-8 / 0253072778
ISBN-13	978-0-253-07277-1 / 9780253072771
Zustand	Neuware