Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918

Marta Verginella

• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781612499307, 9781612499291
• eBook ISBN: 9781612499314
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. By looking at a wide range of sources and employing rich historiography, this collection investigates the currents of women's emancipatory efforts in a climate of conflicting assumptions relating to nationhood and nationalization. This book sheds light on a time when both women and nations were working to assert themselves, and how women promoted the national cause in an attempt to assume stronger roles in the public sphere. The volume studies areas that were nationally mixed and linguistically plural, thus pointing to the dynamic role of peripheries and pluralism affecting women's approaches to and experience of nationalization. These essays speak to women's agency as individuals and members of the social networks, and their roles in cultural, ethnic, and political movements in pluralistic societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thereby arguing that they "enacted" borders and were not simply acted on by them, while also elucidating the ways they transgress the borders.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Women National Activists on the Margins of the Habsburg Monarchy during the Long Nineteenth Century
• 2. Patterns of Romanian Women’s Civil and Political Engagement in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Transylvania and Hungary
• 3. Linguistic Policy and Pedagogical Issues in the Schools of the Austro-Hungarian Littoral: The Participation of Women in Public Debate
• 4. The Slavic-Reciprocity Through the Female Gaze: Elizaveta de Vitte’s Travels for the Building of a Slavic Cultural Network Before World War I
• 5. Carolina Coen Luzzatto: A Jewish Journalist in Gorizia at the End of the Habsburg Empire
• 6. Gender, Nation, and Transgression: The “Sevillian” Lola Montez, “Spanish Femininity,” and European Bohemia
• 7. The Painter Ivana Kobilca and Her Use of Social Networks
• 8. “My spirit is reaching to you with sympathy”: Zofka Kveder’s Correspondence as a Matrix of the Feminist Social Network of the Early Twentieth Century
• Select Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index