Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,9781571810656

Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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ISBN13: 9781571810656
ISBN10: 157181065X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-12-01
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary

This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history. David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Margarete Grandner teaches at the Institute for History, University of Vienna and Mary Jo Maynes at the Department of History, University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
Eve Nyaradi Dvorak
Part One: Gender and Politics
The Gendered Politics of German Nationalism in Austria, 1880-1900
1(18)
Pieter M. Judson
The Limits of Female Desire: The Contributions of Austrian Feminists to the Sexual Debate in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
19(20)
Karin J. Jusek
Female Education in German-Speaking Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, 1866-1914
39(20)
James C. Albisetti
Women in Austrian Politics, 1890-1934: Goals and Visions
59(32)
Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Women in the Austrian Parliament: Opportunities and Barriers
91(24)
Gerda Neyer
Part Two: Women and Work
The Gendering of the Service Sector in Austria at the End of the Nineteenth Century
115(18)
Erna Appelt
Women and their Work in the Labor Market and in the Household
133(24)
Gudrun Biffl
Femininity and Professionalism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Ambition in Female Academics and Managers in Austria
157(22)
Gertraud Diem-Wille
Part Three: Female Identities
The Discourse on Female Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Austria
179(18)
Marie-Luise Angerer
Representations of the Beginning: Shaping Gender Identities in Written Life Stories of Women and Men
197(16)
Monika Bernold
War and Gender Identity: The Experience of Austrian Women, 1945-1950
213(22)
Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann
Ela Hornung
The Contributors 235

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