Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights

East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvZsofia Lorand,Adela Hincu,Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc,Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz

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A compendium of one hundred sources, preceded by a short author’s bio and an introduction, this volume offers an English language selection of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights from East Central Europe between the end of the Second World War and the early 1990s. While communist era is the primary focus, the interwar years and the post-1989 transition period also receive attention. All texts are new translations from the original. The book is organised around themes instead of countries; the similarities and differences between nations are nevertheless pointed out. The editors consider women not only in their local context, but also in conjunction with other systems of thought—including shared agendas with socialism, liberalism, nationalism, and even eugenics. The choice of texts seeks to demonstrate how feminism as political thought was shaped and organised in the region. They vary in type and format from political treatises, philosophy to literary works, even films and the visual arts, with the necessary inclusion of the personal and the private. Women’s political rights, right to education, their role in nation-building, women, and war (and especially women and peace) are part of the anthology, alongside the gendered division of labour, violence against women, the body, and reproduction.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-31
Mått152 x 229 x 64 mm
Vikt1 694 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor700
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9789633864531

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Adela Hincu (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) researches the history of social sciences, Marxist social thought, and women’s intellectual history in Romania and East Central Europe after the Second World War. Zsofia Lorand is an intellectual historian of feminism in post-WWII state-socialist Eastern Europe. Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz is a social historian working in the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc is a political scientist dealing with political issues from the perspective of culture studies.

Introduction 1. The legacy of the pre-1945 period● Ecaterina Arbore, The Working Woman in the Struggle towards Emancipation, 1911 (Romania)● Žemaitė (Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė), To the Enemies of Women’s Equality, 1912 (Lithuania) ● Rosika Schwimmer, The Grievances of Feminism under the Proletarian Dictatorship, 1919 (Hungary) ● Mariska Gárdos, On Sexuality, Prostitution, and Feminism, 1906 and 1941 (Hungary)● Shaqe Marie Çoba, On Feminism, 1921 (Albania) ● Johanna Päts, Why Must Women Elect Women to Parliament?, 1932 (Estonia)● Irena Krzywicka, The Fall of Male Civilization, 1932 (Poland)● Halina Krahelska, The Roots of Changing Sexual Mores, 1937 (Poland) ● Angela Vode, The Woman in Contemporary Society, 1934 (Yugoslavia/Slovenia) 2) Women and war● Žena danas Editorial Board, The New Feminism, 1936 (Yugoslavia/Serbia) ● Ina Jun-Broda, Two Poems by a Partizanka, 1943/44 (Yugoslavia) ● Maca Gržetić, Report on Women in the People’s Liberation Struggle, 1945 (Yugoslavia/Croatia)● Romanian Workers Party, Fallen in Battle: Olga Bancic, 1949 (Romania) ● Lina Kostenko, A Female Poetic Voice against Totalitarianism and War, 1957, 1962, 1987 (Ukraine/USSR)● Staša Zajović, Antiwar Activism in Serbia, 1996 (Serbia)● Śviatłana Aleksijevič, What is Our Memory?, 1998 (Belarus) 3) Ideologies of women’s emancipation● Hana Gregorová, About 8th March and Feminism, n.d. (Slovakia/ Czechoslovakia)● Anna Kéthly, Women in Politics, 1945 (Hungary)● Milada Horáková, Women in Politics, 1945 ....

“This eagerly-awaited collection brings more than one hundred texts on feminism and women’s rights in twentieth-century East Central Europe to English-speaking audiences. Showcasing an exceptionally wide range of voices from every country in the region, and covering an impressive array of themes, the source book is the result of an ambitious collaboration between the editors and an international team of over one hundred scholars and translators. Each translated text is accompanied by a lucid introduction contextualizing the source and its original author, making this an essential resource for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of feminism in East Central Europe and beyond.”--Celia Donert, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge “This volume is a milestone in the research of feminist ideas and experiences of women in East Central Europe. It makes it impressively clear that the intellectual map of Europe cannot be read and understood if these ideas and experiences are left out. East Central Europe is more than just an intermediate or transit space between West and East, and feminist thought is not just an appendix to the major political currents of thought of the 20th century. The book places East Central Europe as a region and the interrelationship between feminism and socialism at the heart of understanding modern European history. Biographies, contexts and sources create a dense fabric of intellectual and political interdependencies. The group of editors, authors and translators have explicitly refrained from establishing a canon but offer a powerful intervention in the history of political ideas and political agency.”-Claudia Kraft, Universität Wien "This extraordinary collection features women’s voices from modern East Central Europe, many translated into English for the first time. Hitherto marginalized in both mainstream and feminist historiography, these female thinkers engaged with a wide variety of topics and concerns, from political upheavals to everyday hardships and visions of a just society. We meet philosophers, writers, artists, birth control activists, and leaders from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including marginalized groups such as Romani and Muslim women. Highlighting the interaction between local and global feminist ideas, this masterful work is essential to anyone interested in global women’s movements."- Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois Chicago