Shifting Voices

Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary

Agatha Schwartz

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780773532861
• eBook ISBN: 9780773578227
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The organized women's movement in Austria-Hungary became increasingly important with the rise of modernism and feminist concerns ranging from women's legal and political rights, access to education, professional opportunities, economic independence, and sexual freedom found expression in print. Agatha Schwartz analyses the connections between the women's movements and women's writing in Austria and Hungary to explore some differences between works written in Austria and those coming from Hungary, whose urban culture was younger. She provides critiques of major works of fiction and theory by authors such as Rosa Mayreder, Grete Meisel-Hess, Margit Kaffka and Szikra.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Feminism, the Women’s Movement, and Women’s Writing in the Context of Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary
• 1 A “First Wave”: The Emergence of a Feminist Discourse in Austria and Hungary
• 2 The Fight for Women’s Education, Suffrage, and a New Sexual Paradigm
• 3 Feminism, Misogyny, and Viriphobia and Their Dialogic Relationship
• 4 The New Woman’s Thorny Road to Independence
• 5 Sexuality, Desire, and the Female Subject
• 6 A Return to Tradition?
• 7 The City and its Metaphors
• Conclusion
• Appendix One Authors’ Biographies
• Appendix Two Bibliography of Hungarian Fin-de-Siècle Women Writers
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index