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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Austrian women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1996 (OCoLC)654677569 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David F Good; Margarete Grandner; Mary Jo Maynes |
ISBN: | 157181065X 9781571810656 1571810455 9781571810458 |
OCLC Number: | 32970861 |
Notes: | Based on a symposium held at the University of Minnesota in April 1991. |
Credits: | Based on a symposium held at the University of Minnesota in April 1991. |
Description: | xxxii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The gendered politics of German nationalism in Austria, 1880-1900 / Pieter M. Judson -- The limits of female desire : the contributions of Austrian feminists to the sexual debate in fin-de-siècle Vienna / Karin J. Jušek -- Female education in German-speaking Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, 1866-1914 / James C. Albisetti -- Women in Austrian politics, 1890-1934 : goals and visions / Birgitta Bader-Zaar -- Women in the Austrian parliament : opportunities and barriers / Gerda Neyer -- The gendering of the service sector in Austria at the end of the nineteenth century / Erna Appelt -- Women and their work in the labor market and in the household / Gudrun Biffl -- Femininity and professionalism : a psychoanalytic study of ambition in female academics and managers in Austria / Gertraud Diem-Wille -- The discourse on female sexuality in nineteenth-century Austria / Marie-Luise Angerer -- Representations of the beginning : shaping gender identities in written life stories of women and men / Monika Bernold -- War and gender identity : the experience of Austrian women, 1945-1950 / Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann and Ela Hornung. |
Series Title: | Austrian studies (Providence, R.I.), v. 1. |
Other Titles: | Austrian women in the 19th and 20th centuries |
Responsibility: | edited by David F. Good, Margarete Grandner, and Mary Jo Maynes. |
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"... the text's greatest strength [is] having compiled essays in history, political sciences, and gender studies. The diversity of the contributions is truly impressive ... a selection of very fine and engaging essays ... [it] provides a wealth of historical information increasingly needed for cultural and literary inquiries ... allows the reader to select up-to-date scholarship..., to have statistics and historical summaries available for classroom use, and to obtain important references for an in-depth examination." * Women in German "... provides information about a group still on the margins of academic discourse to an English-speaking audience. In addition, valuable bibliographic information follows each essay." * The German Quarterly Read more...

