Feminisms and Politics in the Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe

Katerina Dalakoura, Professor at the University of Crete, specializes in women’s and gender history (18th–20th c.), focusing on education, social activism, feminisms, and print cultures in Ottoman Empire, Greece, and the Balkans. She has authored and edited several books and is currently engaged in projects on interwar feminisms, digital history, and the history of medicine.Krassimira Daskalova is Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” She is author and editor of 20 books (in Bulgarian and English). She is editor of Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History [annually since 2007]. Daskalova served as President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, 2005-2010.

• List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Foreword Expanding the House of European Women’s and Gender History - Francisca de Haan Introduction - Katerina Dalakoura and Krassimira Daskalova CHAPTER ONE Women, Politics, and Regional Diplomacy (1923–1939): From the Little Entente of Women to the Balkan Conference - Katerina Dalakoura CHAPTER TWO Little Entente of Women and Unity of Slavic Women in Czechoslovakia: Feminist Aspirations, Political Involvement, and Limits of Transnational Cooperation - Gabriela Dudeková Ková.ová CHAPTER THREE Between Nationalism and International Cooperation: Polish Women Activists in the Little Entente of Women. - Katarzyna Sierakowska CHAPTER FOUR The Little Entente of Women (1923–1929): Feminist Citizenship Advocacy in the Balkans and East-Central Europe - Dimitra Samiou CHAPTER FIVE Feminism, Nationalism, Politics, and Pacifism in the Balkans through the Personal Life of Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878 – 1955) - Krassimira Daskalova CHAPTER SIX Regional, Transnational, and International Women’s Cooperation: Women’s Conferences in Interwar Yugoslavia - Ivana Panteli. and Jasmina Milanovi. CHAPTER SEVEN The Struggle for Representation in the Romanian Feminist Movement: Izabela Sadoveanu’s (1870–1941) Critique of the Little Entente of Women - Giorgos Manios CHAPTER EIGHT Acting Internationally, Thinking Nationally (1919–1939): Aspects of the International and Inter-Balkan Collaborations of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women - Eleni Fournaraki CHAPTER NINE Diversity and Entanglements in East-European Feminisms: The Bulgarian Women’s Social-Democratic Union (1921–1934) - Valentina Mitkova CHAPTER TEN Socialist Women in International and Regional Initiatives during the Interwar Period: Ambiguous Trajectories - Eleftheria Papastefanaki Sources – Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index