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This edition of the bi-monthly Aramaco World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 2, March-April, 1971, is titled, 'The Arab Woman: An Untypical View'. Included are articles on: The Arab Woman: A Traditional View, A Day in the Life of..., The Harem: Image and Reality, The Arab Woman-At Play, The Veil: A Darkness at Noon, The Arab Woman-At Work, Inside Arab Marriage, The Arab Woman at War, and The Arab Woman-and the Western Male.

Title: Ballot. Description: The Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR) was an organization in which the democratic principles were highly respected and all members had to have a saying in deciding the structure of the leading committees of the organization. This is an example of ballot used by the organization for the election of members in the action committee of the organization. The members proposed wer... Title: Ballot. Description: The Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR) was an organization in which the democratic principles were highly respected and all members had to have a saying in deciding the structure of the leading committees of the organization. This is an example of ballot used by the organization for the election of members in the action committee of the organization. The members proposed were mainly middle-class women with or without a profession (case in which the profession of their husbands was indicated). Keywords: Feminism, movement, Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women, structure Show more Show less

Description: Letter from Calipso Botez to Elena Meissner, leader of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR), written on March 21, 1934. Calypso Botez was an important feminist figure of the interwar Romania, founding member of the feminist organizations AECPFR and Solidaritatea, president of the National Council of Romanian Women (CNFR, 1921 – 1930) and the first woman to hold a position in the Perman... Description: Letter from Calipso Botez to Elena Meissner, leader of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR), written on March 21, 1934. Calypso Botez was an important feminist figure of the interwar Romania, founding member of the feminist organizations AECPFR and Solidaritatea, president of the National Council of Romanian Women (CNFR, 1921 – 1930) and the first woman to hold a position in the Permanent Council of the Minister of Public Instruction. Starting with 1929, when partial political rights were granted to women, she supported the National Peasant Party (PNȚ) as the only party that promised firmly to support women’s enfranchisement in local elections. This letter tells the story of how enrolment or support of diverse political parties caused rifts between members of the feminist organizations. In 1934 a conflict between Calypso Botez and Elena Dimitriu Castană, the leader of the Constanța section of AECPFR, began due to their different political options (the latter was a member of the National Liberal Party). Botez tells Meissner in this letter how this conflict became public in that there were articles published in newspapers, articles in which the activity of Bucharest female councilors was deprecated. Keywords: Feminism, politics, political rights, political party, Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women Show more Show less

Title: What women say? Description: Manuscript of an article written by Elena Meissner, later to be published in the widespread newspaper Adevărul in February (?) 1931. The article debates the shortcomings of winning partial political rights for women and argues passionately for the achievement of full political rights for women: “We won’t achieve anything from our program, none of our revendications, we won’t achieve the right to all wo... Title: What women say? Description: Manuscript of an article written by Elena Meissner, later to be published in the widespread newspaper Adevărul in February (?) 1931. The article debates the shortcomings of winning partial political rights for women and argues passionately for the achievement of full political rights for women: “We won’t achieve anything from our program, none of our revendications, we won’t achieve the right to all works according to competencies, we won’t reform anything, we will not bring the slightest change, no matter how useful for the general interest, unless we will have the right to vote.” Keywords: Feminism, politics, political rights, women’s emancipation, Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women Show more Show less