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50 años de una vida
written by Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, 1894-1976 (Havana City: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1971, originally published 1971), 491 page(s)
In 1971, Ofelia Domínguez Navarro wrote _50 años de una vida_, a memoir of her life. It includes most of _De 6 a 6_, but it also stands alone as a memoir and a testimony of Cuban life and society throughout her lifetime. As Cuba was a leader in testimonial writing, Ofelia’s contribution fit in with the methods...
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written by Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, 1894-1976 (Havana City: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1971, originally published 1971), 491 page(s)
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In 1971, Ofelia Domínguez Navarro wrote _50 años de una vida_, a memoir of her life. It includes most of _De 6 a 6_, but it also stands alone as a memoir and a testimony of Cuban life and society throughout her lifetime. As Cuba was a leader in testimonial writing, Ofelia’s contribution fit in with the methods of historical and literary inquiry. Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (1896-1977) belonged to the feminist, nationalist, and communist revolut...
In 1971, Ofelia Domínguez Navarro wrote _50 años de una vida_, a memoir of her life. It includes most of _De 6 a 6_, but it also stands alone as a memoir and a testimony of Cuban life and society throughout her lifetime. As Cuba was a leader in testimonial writing, Ofelia’s contribution fit in with the methods of historical and literary inquiry. Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (1896-1977) belonged to the feminist, nationalist, and communist revolutionary groups in Cuba between 1920 and 1977. She wrote a memoir of her four imprisonments during the dictatorships of President Gerardo Machado and President Carlos Mendieta. She was a teacher, lawyer, firebrand, journalist, and activist for women and the working class. She was also one of the initial members of the Cuban Communist Party and a close friend of Julio Antonio Mella, its founder. She founded her own women’s and worker’s rights parties: the Unión Laborista de Mujeres and the Unión Radical de Mujeres in 1930 and 1931, respectively. She participated in the three national congresses on women’s rights, 1923, 1925, and 1939. She served on Dictator and President Fulgencio Batista’s delegation to the United Nations, ultimately leading it in 1957 and 1958.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
Author / Creator
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, 1894-1976
Date Published / Released
1971
Publisher
Instituto Cubano del Libro
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Empire and Family Life, Reproductive Health, Empire and Feminism, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright @ 1971 by Instituto Cubano del Libro
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Anna Ziegloserová to 'Très honorée Madame,' Praque, 16 October 1912
written by Anna Ziegloserová, 1883-1942 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 25 Folder 49) (16 October 1912) , 1 page(s)
TITLE: Anna Ziegloserová to 'Très honorée Madame,' Praque, 16 October 1912. DESCRIPTION: Letter kept in the Archives of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), National Archives of Hungary. On behalf of the Czech women’s journal Ženský obzor (‘Women’s horizon’) Anna Ziegloserová (1883-194...
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written by Anna Ziegloserová, 1883-1942 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 25 Folder 49) (16 October 1912) , 1 page(s)
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TITLE: Anna Ziegloserová to 'Très honorée Madame,' Praque, 16 October 1912. DESCRIPTION: Letter kept in the Archives of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), National Archives of Hungary. On behalf of the Czech women’s journal Ženský obzor (‘Women’s horizon’) Anna Ziegloserová (1883-1942) informs one representative of the Association that the journal will gladly publish an article giving information about the seventh c...
TITLE: Anna Ziegloserová to 'Très honorée Madame,' Praque, 16 October 1912. DESCRIPTION: Letter kept in the Archives of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), National Archives of Hungary. On behalf of the Czech women’s journal Ženský obzor (‘Women’s horizon’) Anna Ziegloserová (1883-1942) informs one representative of the Association that the journal will gladly publish an article giving information about the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) planned for 1913 in Budapest. The journal has published already a short notice about the congress. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Austria; Bohemia; Moravia
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
16 October 1912, 1912
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Anna Ziegloserová, 1883-1942
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Suffrage, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Empire and Feminism
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La Citoyenne in the World: Hubertine Auclert and Feminist Imperialism
written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
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written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women of Color, Suffrage, Empire and Feminism, Race Discrimination, Support for Imperialism, Kabyle, Arabs, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright @ 2017 by Alexander Street
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Cuvantul de deschidere rostit de doamna Maria B. Baiulescu, presedinta Uniunii Femeilor Romane din Brasov la I-ul Congres al Reuniunilor de...
written by Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941 ("George Baritiu" Library, Brasov, Romania, MS 1954, f. 36, "George Baritiu" County Library Special Collections) (1913) , 1 page(s)
TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in...
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written by Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941 ("George Baritiu" Library, Brasov, Romania, MS 1954, f. 36, "George Baritiu" County Library Special Collections) (1913) , 1 page(s)
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TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary. Maria Baiulescu (1860-1941) was an author, Romanian nationalist and civic organizer. She was the president of the Reunion of R...
TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary. Maria Baiulescu (1860-1941) was an author, Romanian nationalist and civic organizer. She was the president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in Brasov/Brasso/Kronstadt (1908-1935), the President of the Union of Romanian Women (a federation of Transylvanian women’s associations) (1913-1935), and leader of ASTRA association’s Biopolitical Section, founded in 1927. A supporter of women’s social involvement, she advocated what has been termed “republican motherhood,” which focused on women’s roles as nurturers and educators of the nation. See, Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, and Francisca de Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 48-50. Baiulescu’s personal archives are housed by the "George Baritiu" County Library Brasov (Romania), Special Collections Unit. The Union of Romanian Women reunited approximatively half of the 60 independent Romanian women’s “Reunions” that had appeared in Transylvania since the 1850s. ¶ The speech laid out the purpose of a Union with “centralized power” to direct the activities of the adhering women’s Reunions in Hungary. The document also argued that the Union would direct the activities of women’s Reunions that would form in the future. The goals of the Union outlined by Baiulescu were promoting girls’ education, preserving peasant women’s handicraft traditions, raising “hardworking and thrifty wives and mothers,” promoting charitability among women, and creating a unified orphanage. Finally, according to Baiulescu, “through her disinterested social work woman is becoming an important factor even in states’ lives as only she is capable to resolve somewhat the humanitarian problem.” At first sight, the speech reaffirms and unifies the existing areas of activity of the Union’s members and places them within the politically uncontroversial frame of “republican motherhood.” However, concerning the context of this speech, the Romanian Women’s Union founding congress was scheduled to coincide with the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress in Budapest (3-5 June 1913). Whereas Saxon and Hungarian women’s associations in Transylvania were visible participants at the IWSA Congress, the newly-formed Union abstained from organized participation. The abstention was due to a “silenced or veiled” (but, nevertheless, present) suffrage politics pursued by the Transylvanian Romanian women’s movement in Hungary, one that may have been carried aut through the Romanian National Party’s advocating universal suffrage in the Hungarian Parliament, largely because of governemntal restrictions against minorities associational life in the Kingdom of Hungary ¶ This document points to the existence of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary and the tendencies towards centralization of disparate women’s associations, occurring by the 1910s. Secondly, Baiulescu’s speech reveals the rhetoric that masked the transnational connections and internationally convergent politics some politically-minded Transylvanian Romanian women, although, perhaps, not Maria Baiulescu herself, were pursuing at the time. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; National Identity; Social Reform and Political Activism; Welfare Movements; Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements; Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations; Political and Human Rights; Human Rights, Suffrage; Women and Education; Gendered Education; Work and Class Identity; Sexual Division of Labor; Habsburg Empire; Kingdom of Hungary; International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA).
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1913
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Speech/Address
Author / Creator
Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Work and Class Identity, Indigenous Women, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social and Cultural Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, National Identity, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Equal Rights for Women, Sexual Division of Labor, Gendered Education, Human Rights, Su...
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Work and Class Identity, Indigenous Women, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social and Cultural Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, National Identity, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Equal Rights for Women, Sexual Division of Labor, Gendered Education, Human Rights, Suffrage, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Social and Political Leadership, Empire and Feminism, Romanians
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Deputace českých žen v říšském parlamentě
in Právo ženy [Woman's Right], Vol. 1, no. 20, July 22, 1911, pp. 1-2 (1911), 2 page(s)
TITLE: Deputation of Czech Women in the Imperial Parliament. DESCRIPTION: Právo ženy [Woman’s Right] was a women’s newspaper written in Czech language and published in Brno, the centre of the region Moravia, between 1911 and 1913. Moravia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). The newspaper focused on t...
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in Právo ženy [Woman's Right], Vol. 1, no. 20, July 22, 1911, pp. 1-2 (1911), 2 page(s)
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TITLE: Deputation of Czech Women in the Imperial Parliament. DESCRIPTION: Právo ženy [Woman’s Right] was a women’s newspaper written in Czech language and published in Brno, the centre of the region Moravia, between 1911 and 1913. Moravia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). The newspaper focused on the question of women’s political rights. Its editor was Zdenka Wiedermanová-Motyčková (1868-1915), teacher and founder of liberal...
TITLE: Deputation of Czech Women in the Imperial Parliament. DESCRIPTION: Právo ženy [Woman’s Right] was a women’s newspaper written in Czech language and published in Brno, the centre of the region Moravia, between 1911 and 1913. Moravia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). The newspaper focused on the question of women’s political rights. Its editor was Zdenka Wiedermanová-Motyčková (1868-1915), teacher and founder of liberal feminist association Zemská organizace pokrokových žen na Moravě [Provincial Association of Progressive Women in Moravia]. The association established in 1910, became the umbrella organization of most of the political activities of Moravian Czech speaking middle class feminists, mostly referred to as Moravian progressive women. Výbor pro volební právo žen [Committee for Women's Voting Rights] was a group of women which since the end of 1905 coordinated the activities of the Czech speaking women’s suffragists in Bohemia, another crown land of Austria. The article deals with the visit of the delegation of Czech suffragists from the Committee for Women's Voting Rights and Provincial Association of Progressive Women in Moravia and the representatives of Czech women in Lower Austria at the Austrian parliament (Reichsrat) on July 17, 1911, the day when the session of the newly elected parliament started. The delegation asked for the extension of the “universal and equal” suffrage to women. The author describes the reception of the delegation by the prime minister Paul Gautsch and by the Czech members of the parliament (among others František Fiedler, Václav Klofáč, František Udržal, Antonín Němec, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Adolf Stránský). KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Empire and Feminism; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Date Published / Released
22 July 1911, 1911
Person Discussed
Adolf Stránský, 1855-1931, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1850-1937, Antonín Němec, 1858-1926, František Udržal, 1866-1938, Václav Klofáč, 1868-1942, František Fiedler, 1858-1925, Paul Gautsch, 1851-1918, Zdenka Wiedermanová-Motyčková, 1868-1915
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Suffrage, Empire and Feminism, Human Rights, Czechs
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Die Mütter und der Krieg
written by Irma Szirmai, 1868-1958 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P987 Szirmai Oszkárné [Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai], Box 4 Folder 12) (1916) , 6 page(s)
TITLE: The Mothers and the War, ca. 1916. DESCRIPTION: Typescript kept in the papers of Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai (born Irma Reinitz, 1867-1958), leader of the child and motherhood protection division of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), the leading liberal-progressive women’s organization in Hungar...
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written by Irma Szirmai, 1868-1958 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P987 Szirmai Oszkárné [Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai], Box 4 Folder 12) (1916) , 6 page(s)
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TITLE: The Mothers and the War, ca. 1916. DESCRIPTION: Typescript kept in the papers of Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai (born Irma Reinitz, 1867-1958), leader of the child and motherhood protection division of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), the leading liberal-progressive women’s organization in Hungary at the time. The manuscript was written likely by Mrs. Szirmai during World War I. Szirmai makes a case for universal suffrage for wo...
TITLE: The Mothers and the War, ca. 1916. DESCRIPTION: Typescript kept in the papers of Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai (born Irma Reinitz, 1867-1958), leader of the child and motherhood protection division of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), the leading liberal-progressive women’s organization in Hungary at the time. The manuscript was written likely by Mrs. Szirmai during World War I. Szirmai makes a case for universal suffrage for women and men as well as other changes that must be pressed home after the war. These changes must come since they are justified by the engagement of women and men with the war time tasks and burdens, and because the fact that the misery of war had come upon humanity had been made “possible” through a system “without” suffrage. The war is described as a consequence of “male domination/patriarchy (Männerherrschaft).” Women demand suffrage not with reference to their suffering but “in the interest of the community (Allgemeinheit).”. Particular groups of women, amongst them mothers and housewives, will all make their distinct contribution to avoid further wars once endowed with the rights they deserve. Women need to have a say in the preparation of social policy legislature, and the state needs women’s influence for a number of further purposes and in various ways. Szirmai stresses in particular the role of mothers and motherhood as she makes her case for women’s suffrage. The text repeatedly refers to suffrage as “citizenship (Bürgerrecht)” for women. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; World War I; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Equal Rights for Women; Maternalist Feminism; Habsburg Empire; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1916
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Irma Szirmai, 1868-1958
Topic / Theme
World War I, 1914-1918, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Equal Rights for Women, Human Rights, Suffrage, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Die sozialen Arbeitsgebiete der sächsischen Frauen und die Politik
written by Meta Römer-Neubner, 1869- (Bibliothek, Siebenbürgen-Institut, Universität Heidelber), in Die Karpaten, Vol. 5 no. 24, 1913, pp. 747-759 (1913), 13 page(s)
TITLE: The Domains of Saxon Women’s Social Work and Politics. DESCRIPTION: Meta Römer-Neubner (1869-?), daughter of Catholic parents, was a music teacher and activist the Kronstadt/Brașov/Brassó. In this article from 1913, the author reviews some Transylvanian Saxon responses to the Schäßburg/Sighișoara/Se...
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written by Meta Römer-Neubner, 1869- (Bibliothek, Siebenbürgen-Institut, Universität Heidelber), in Die Karpaten, Vol. 5 no. 24, 1913, pp. 747-759 (1913), 13 page(s)
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TITLE: The Domains of Saxon Women’s Social Work and Politics. DESCRIPTION: Meta Römer-Neubner (1869-?), daughter of Catholic parents, was a music teacher and activist the Kronstadt/Brașov/Brassó. In this article from 1913, the author reviews some Transylvanian Saxon responses to the Schäßburg/Sighișoara/Segesvár-born Marie Stritt’s advocacy of women’s suffrage at a German women’s congress in 1912 (Der Deutsche Frauenkongress, Berli...
TITLE: The Domains of Saxon Women’s Social Work and Politics. DESCRIPTION: Meta Römer-Neubner (1869-?), daughter of Catholic parents, was a music teacher and activist the Kronstadt/Brașov/Brassó. In this article from 1913, the author reviews some Transylvanian Saxon responses to the Schäßburg/Sighișoara/Segesvár-born Marie Stritt’s advocacy of women’s suffrage at a German women’s congress in 1912 (Der Deutsche Frauenkongress, Berlin, 27. Februar bis 2. März 1912). An article in the Siebenbürgisch-Deutsches Tageblatt and Karl Jickeli in Die Karpaten opposed women’s suffrage and branded it as a threat to the Saxon family and nationality. Adele Zay, on the other hand, reporting on the conference for Kronstädter Zeitung, pointed out that far from solely a women’s issue, the struggle for suffrage was also part of a march towards the rule of universal humanist values. Römer-Neubner moves on to quote at length from Catechism of the Women’s Movement (Katechismus der Frauenbewegung), a pamphlet by Karl Wolff published in Leipzig, to emphasize the growing support for the idea in mainstream German politics. She rhetorically asks whether “we are fifty years behind civilized countries,” only to disclaim this proposition by pointing to the great progress that women’s movement has made in Transylvania. She mentions, for instance, the Kronstadt/Brașov/Brassó-based Association of Female Trade Employees (Verein der weiblichen Handelsbeflissenen, called here Verein weiblicher Handelsangestellter), founded in 1909. She argues that improved means of communication have made it easier to cooperate with Western feminists, referring to Transylvanian Saxon women’s rights activists’ contacts with feminists from Germany, and she reminds her readers of the opportunity that the upcoming seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), which will be held in Budapest in June 1913, will offer. KEYWORDS: Empire and Feminism; Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements and Other Actors beyond Empire; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Work and Class Identity; Sexual Division of Labour; Habsburg Empire; Hungary.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Meta Römer-Neubner, 1869-
Date Published / Released
1913
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Equal Rights for Women, Suffrage, Non-aligned Social Movements, Social and Cultural Rights, Empire and Feminism, Germans, Romanians, Hungarians
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Discours de Mme le député Božena Viková-Kunetická sur les femmes et les petites nations, prononcé à la réunion 9 juin 1913 à Pragu
written by Božena Viková-Kuněticka, 1862-1934 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 25 Folder 51) (Prague, Stredoceský, 1913), 6 page(s)
TITLE: Speech of the Representative Mrs. Božena Viková-Kunĕtická on women and the small nations, given at the gathering on 9 June 1913 in Prague. DESCRIPTION: Print of a lengthy speech given by the author in front of women who on their travel to the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance...
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written by Božena Viková-Kuněticka, 1862-1934 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 25 Folder 51) (Prague, Stredoceský, 1913), 6 page(s)
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TITLE: Speech of the Representative Mrs. Božena Viková-Kunĕtická on women and the small nations, given at the gathering on 9 June 1913 in Prague. DESCRIPTION: Print of a lengthy speech given by the author in front of women who on their travel to the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Budapest 1913 have stopped over in Prague, and local public. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer an...
TITLE: Speech of the Representative Mrs. Božena Viková-Kunĕtická on women and the small nations, given at the gathering on 9 June 1913 in Prague. DESCRIPTION: Print of a lengthy speech given by the author in front of women who on their travel to the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Budapest 1913 have stopped over in Prague, and local public. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer and politician. In 1912, she was elected a deputy to the Bohemian Provincial Diet (the Bohemian regional parliament within Cisleithania), the first elected woman deputy in the Habsburg Monarchy. The curial electoral system to the Diet, in use since 1861, was based on tax and property qualifications and thus excluded a major part of the citizens on the basis of class. At the same time the regulations pertaining to the Bohemian Diet used gender neutral terms – some women thus were not deprived from the right to vote to the Diet, some were not explicitly excluded from the passive electoral right. Viková-Kunětická never took up the office because she did not receive the authorization from the governor and the Bohemian Provincial Diet was dissolved in 1913. In the same year, she refused to attend the congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest after she hadn’t been allowed to give her speech in Czech or Slovak language – which were not the official languages of the congress – and after her proposition to include the protest against the situation of the Slovak nation in Hungary into the official program of the Congress hadn’t been taken into account by the organizers. The speech was given at the meeting on the occasion of the visit of some of the IWSA Budapest congress delegates in Prague on June 9, 1913. The Prague event had been preceded by pronounced tensions between her and the Hungarian organizers of the Budapest congress. ¶ Viková-Kunĕtická paints the situation of the Czech nation in the Habsburg Monarchy, or under the “Austro-Hungarian regime”, in extremely dark colors the progressive development of the Czech nation notwithstanding. The Slavic population in Hungary, forming an integral element of “our national life”, in some regards (education) is in an even worse situation. Viková-Kunĕtická talks about the tasks of the international feminist movement in general. While this movement focuses and has to focus on the feminist agenda, the Czech nation has given proof of its respect for women and their cause. She discusses the hostile Austrian reaction to her election. It would have been appropriate that she, as first Slavic woman elected in Austria-Hungary, would have had the opportunity to in front of the Budapest congress give voice to the accusations, hopes and views of the “Czech-Slavic women”, but she was not accredited. The Magyar organizing committee had refused to allow her to speak in Czech at the congress, arguing that – as Viková-Kunĕtická’s puts it in her speech – “it doesn’t pursue political goals”, and after that didn’t respond any longer to her repeated request. Viková-Kunĕtická discusses these circumstances in detail, describing the approach of the Magyar organizing committee as itself “political”. The feminist movement must be inclusive as to the small nations and their struggles. Pointing to the Slavic, Germans (Saxon) and Romanian population in the Hungarian Kingdom, Viková-Kunĕtická declares that the organizing committee and the Budapest congress as a whole have to respond to her related questions. She is convinced that the representatives of other dominated nations will inform the international women’s movements about the suffering of their peoples, and she restates her case that and why it is impossible for her to participate in the Budapest congress under the given circumstances. ¶ The speech, the complexity of which cannot be fully captured in this abstract, points to key problems of feminism defined as non-inclusive as to other political agendas, challenges such approaches as Viková-Kunĕtická conceives of them, and demands from the international women’s movement and the Hungarian organizers of the Budapest congress to productively engage with this challenge. KEYWORDS: Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Women Challenging Empire; Božena Viková-Kunĕtická; Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Seventh Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance IWSA, Budapest, 15-21 June 1913; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Transylvania; Saxons; Romanians; Slovakia; Austria; Bohemia; Slavic people
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Speech/Address
Author / Creator
Božena Viková-Kuněticka, 1862-1934
Date Published / Released
1913
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Education, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Empire and Feminism, Indigenous Languages, National Identity, Human Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Suffrage, Opposition to Imperialism, Germans, Slavs, Romanians
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Drobnosti. Odpověď českej ženy ženám maďarským
in Dennica [Morning Star], Vol. 14, No. 10, October 1912, p. 243 (1912), 2 page(s)
TITLE: Details: Answer of Czech Women Hungarian Women. DESCRIPTION: Dennica was the first Slovak women’s journal, founded in 1898. The journal was founded and edited by Terésia Vansová (1857-1942), Slovak writer and a leading women’s activist. The short note informs about Božena Viková-Kunětická’s boyc...
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in Dennica [Morning Star], Vol. 14, No. 10, October 1912, p. 243 (1912), 2 page(s)
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TITLE: Details: Answer of Czech Women Hungarian Women. DESCRIPTION: Dennica was the first Slovak women’s journal, founded in 1898. The journal was founded and edited by Terésia Vansová (1857-1942), Slovak writer and a leading women’s activist. The short note informs about Božena Viková-Kunětická’s boycott of the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest in 1913. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862...
TITLE: Details: Answer of Czech Women Hungarian Women. DESCRIPTION: Dennica was the first Slovak women’s journal, founded in 1898. The journal was founded and edited by Terésia Vansová (1857-1942), Slovak writer and a leading women’s activist. The short note informs about Božena Viková-Kunětická’s boycott of the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest in 1913. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer elected to the Bohemian Provincial (crown land) Diet in 1912. She was the first woman elected to the (regional) parliament in the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1913, she refused to attend the IWSA congress in Budapest after she hadn’t been allowed to give her speech in Czech or Slovak language – which were not the official languages of the Congress – and after her proposition to include the protest against the situation of the Slovak nation in Hungary into the official program of the congress hadn’t been taken into account by the organizers. See also, Božena Viková-Kunětická, “Discours de Mme le deputé Božena Viková-Kunětická sur les femmes et les petites natitions, prononcé à la réunion le 9 juin 1913 à Prague [Speech by Mme. Božena Viková-Kunětická on Women and Small Nations, delivered at the meeting on 9 June 1913 in Prague]” (Speech, Praha [Prague], 1913), Fond Viková-Kunětická Božena, 59/55, folder výstřižky – články otištěné v různých časopisech a novinách z let 1913-1931, Památník národního písemnictví, Literární archiv. Cooperation between Slovak and Czech (Bohemian and Moravian) women, and the topos of Slovak-Czech brotherhood and sisterhood transcended the separation of these nationalities speaking Slavic languages within the Habsburg Monarchy. The Czech lands belonged to Austria (Cisleithania) while the Slovakian lands belonged to Hungary. Austria and Hungary formed the two constitutive parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, each of which was in charge of its own domestic politics. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Empire and Feminism; Empire and Internationalism; Political and Human Rights; Nationality Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire; Cisleithania; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Date Published / Released
October 1912, 1912
Person Discussed
Božena Viková-Kuněticka, 1862-1934
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Political and Human Rights, Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social Reform and Political Activism, Suffrage, Indigenous Languages, Empire and Feminism, Empire and Internationalism, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovak
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Drugi kongres československih ženskinja
written by Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women, in Ženski svet, Vol. 23, no. 9, January 9, 1908, pp. 193-196 (1908), 4 page(s)
TITLE: The Second Congress of Czechoslovak Women. DESCRIPTION: This report discusses the second congress of Czechoslovak women held in Prague (Praha, Prag) in 1908. The article was published in Ženski svet. List dobrotvornih zadruga Srpkinja (Women’s World: Journal of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Wo...
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written by Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women, in Ženski svet, Vol. 23, no. 9, January 9, 1908, pp. 193-196 (1908), 4 page(s)
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TITLE: The Second Congress of Czechoslovak Women. DESCRIPTION: This report discusses the second congress of Czechoslovak women held in Prague (Praha, Prag) in 1908. The article was published in Ženski svet. List dobrotvornih zadruga Srpkinja (Women’s World: Journal of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women). The journal was published between 1886 and 1914 in Novi Sad (Újvidék), the Vojvodina, by the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian...
TITLE: The Second Congress of Czechoslovak Women. DESCRIPTION: This report discusses the second congress of Czechoslovak women held in Prague (Praha, Prag) in 1908. The article was published in Ženski svet. List dobrotvornih zadruga Srpkinja (Women’s World: Journal of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women). The journal was published between 1886 and 1914 in Novi Sad (Újvidék), the Vojvodina, by the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad (Dobrotvorna zadruga Srpkinja Novosatkinja). The Vojvodina belonged to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia which enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, or Hungary, in the dual Monarchy (from 1867) of Austria-Hungary. Serbian was one of the dominant languages spoken in the Vojvodina. The editor of the journal was Arkadije Varađanin, a man who was an active proponent of women’s rights and who was a teacher and director of the Serbian High School for Girls established in Novi Sad in 1874. The article claims that the second congress of Czechoslovak women was organized on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Francis Joseph’s reign, and reports that several pan-Slavic congresses have been organized on the occasion with the aim to strengthen the cooperation in the cultural and economic sphere. Delfa Ivanić (1881-1972) from Belgrade and Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873-1957) from Zagreb participated in the congress and were elected honorary vice-presidents of the congress. The congress discussed questions such as women’s position in society, family, state and culture. The report praises the Slavic cooperation and in closing discusses the possibilities of organizing the congress of Serbian women “on this side” (meaning, in Austria-Hungary rather than Serbia), which, according to some, should have occurred before the Chzechoslovak women’s congress. For the speech held by Delfa Ivanić on the occasion, see Delfa Ivanić, “Govor g-đe Delfe Ivanićke na kongresu slovenskih žena, koji je održan u Pragu o.g. (1) [The speech of Mrs Delfa Ivanić at the congress of Slavic women held in Prague this year (1)],” Ženski svet, January 10, 1908; and Delfa Ivanić, “Govor g-đe Delfe Ivanićke na kongresu slovenskih žena, koji je održan u Pragu o.g. (2) [The Speech of Mrs Delfa Ivanić at the Congress of Slavic Women held in Prague This Year (2)],” Ženski svet, January 11, 1908. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Second Congress of Czechoslovak women; Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women Challenging Empire; Women and Statehood; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Women and Statehood; Empire and Feminism; Social Reform and Political Activism; Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements; Political and Human Rights; Nationality Rights; Social and Cultural Rights; Suffrage; Equal Rights for Women; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Austria; Novi Sad; Vojvodina; Serbia; Prague; Bohemia
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
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Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women
Date Published / Released
09 January 1908, 1908
Person Discussed
Marija Jurić Zagorka, 1873-1957, Delfa Ivanić, 1881-1972, Arkadije Varađanin, fl. 1874
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Immigration, Social Reform and Political Activism, Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Feminism, Social and Cultural Rights, Nationality Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Croatians, Serbians, Slavs, Czechs
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