Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-57181-065-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Good, David F.

Grandner, Margarete

Maynes, Mary Jo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Introduction

Eve Nyaradi Dvorak

PART I: GENDER AND POLITICS

Chapter 1. The Gendered Politics of German Nationalism in Austria, 1880-1900

Pieter M. Judson

Chapter 2. The Limits of Female Desire: The Contributions of Austrian Feminists to the Sexual Debate in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Karin J. Jusek

Chapter 3. Female Education in German-Speaking Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 1866-1914

James C. Albisetti

Chapter 4. Women in Austrian Politics, 1890-1934: Goals and Visions

Birgitta Bada-Zaar

Chapter 5. Women in the Austrian Parliament: Opportunities and Barriers

Gerda Neyer

PART II: WOMEN AND WORK

Chapter 6. The Gendering of the Service Sector in Austria at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Erna Appelt

Chapter 7. Women and their Work in the Labor Market and in the Household

Gudrun Biffl

Chapter 8. Femininity and Professionalism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Ambition in Female Academics and Managers in Austria

Gertraud Diem-Wille

PART III: FEMALE IDENTITIES

Chapter 9. The Discourse on Female Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Austria

Marie-Luise Angerer

Chapter 10. Representations of the Beginning: Shaping Gender Identities in Written Life Stories of Women and Men

Monika Bernold

Chapter 11. War and Gender Identity: The Experience of Austrian Women, 1945-1950

Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann and Ela Hornung

The Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Grandner, Margarete
Margarete Grandner teaches at the Institute for History, University of Vienna.

Good, David F.
David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

Maynes, Mary Jo
Mary Jo Maynes at the Department of History, University of Minnesota.

David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.