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The Awakening of Women: Speech Delivered at Women's Rights Centennial, Seneca Falls, New York

written by Dorothy Kenyon, 1888-1972, in Dorothy Kenyon Papers, 1850-1998, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 21, Folder 2, 24pp.) (Northampton, MA) (16 July 1948) , 24 page(s)

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7. WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS/ASSOCIATIONS

written by Shahla Zia, 1947-2005 and Farzana Bari, fl. 1999; in Baseline Report on Women's Participation in Political and Public Life in Pakistan: October 1999 (Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory: Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation, 1999), 68-80

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Battle Hymn of China

written by Agnes Smedley, 1894-1950 (London, England: Victor Gollancz, 1944, originally published 1944), 366 page(s)

This book is an account of the author's travels with Chinese armies and guerrilla groups during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The author prefaces the account of her travels with an autobiographical chapter detailing the development of her interest in anti-imperialist, nationalist movements around the world.

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Beijing!: UN Fourth World Conference on Women

written by Olivia H. Tripon, fl. 1998; edited by Gouri Salvi, fl. 1998 (New Delhi, Delhi State: Women's Feature Service, 1998), 297 page(s)

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Biennial Report, 1925-1927; Jahresbericht für die Geschäftsperiode 1925-1927; Rapport bisannuel, 1925-1927

written by International Council of Women; edited by Elsie M. Zimmern, 1876-1967 (London, England: International Council of Women, 1927), 382 page(s)

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Bitte!

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) (09 September 1914) , 2 page(s)

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TITLE: Demand! DESCRIPTION: Typescript kept in the papers of Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai (born Irma Reinitz, 1867-1958), leader of the child protection division of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), the leading liberal-progressive women’s organization in Hungary at the time. The “Demand!” in all likelihood is authored by Mrs. Szirmai. It addresses “our brothers and sisters” with the request to contribute to the wartime effort... TITLE: Demand! DESCRIPTION: Typescript kept in the papers of Mrs. Oszkár Szirmai (born Irma Reinitz, 1867-1958), leader of the child protection division of the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete), the leading liberal-progressive women’s organization in Hungary at the time. The “Demand!” in all likelihood is authored by Mrs. Szirmai. It addresses “our brothers and sisters” with the request to contribute to the wartime effort of the Association by ordering and paying for goods that can be produced by “your poor sisters” in doing homework. This effort fulfills a double purpose: It generates “well paid” work for poor women, if only “in small doses so as to be able to include everybody,” while, later on, those who have ordered and paid for the work shall “give” what has been produced “as a present to those in need.” The “Demand” mentions winter cloth and simple cloth for women, children and babies as examples. The association had received a number of large orders, for instance for children’s clothes or wristlets, yet it was in dire need for new orders since “in the hours when work distribution takes place,” in the rooms of the school in Nagydiófa Street 8 in Budapest, “the clientele is as large as if warm cakes of new bank notes were distributed, whereas in reality it is only work which is distributed there.” The Demand mentions that the activities of the association have always been oriented towards social rather than charitable work, referring to the association’s counseling activities with regard to work and employment. Yet, the war has generated such manifold miseries that help now must be given “quickly and in reliable manner by action rather than through the word” alone. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; World War I; Social Reform and Political Activism Welfare Movements; War Time Relief Work; Work and Class Identity; Generation of Work for Poor Women; Habsburg Empire; Hungary Show more Show less

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The Blazed Trail to International Understanding and Good Will Among Working Women: Some Facts Regarding the Work of the International Congre...

written by International Congress of Working Women, in International Federation of Working Women. Records, 1919-1923, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (B-12, folder #2) (Cambridge, MA) (1921), 8 page(s)

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Brief an Elsa Grailich, 12. Oktober 1908

written by Auguste Fickert, 1855-1910 (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus [Vienna City Library], Handschriftensammlung [Manuscript Department] IN 70453/10) (12 October 1908) , 1 page(s)

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Title: Letter to Elsa Grailich, 12 October 1908. Description: The writer of the letter is Auguste Fickert (1855–1910). She was a school teacher in Vienna and an active member of the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association], one of the rather radical organisations of the Austrian bourgeois women's movements in terms of their political demands. The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austri... Title: Letter to Elsa Grailich, 12 October 1908. Description: The writer of the letter is Auguste Fickert (1855–1910). She was a school teacher in Vienna and an active member of the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association], one of the rather radical organisations of the Austrian bourgeois women's movements in terms of their political demands. The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association] committed to women's labor and employment and campaigned for improvements of proletarian women's lives. Fickert cooperated with proletarian organizations in campaigns and was active in the women's suffrage movement. Her first public political act was to organize a petition against the disfranchisement of women voters in government elections in Lower Austria. In 1899, she co-founded the journal of the General Austrian Women's Association, Dokumente der Frauen [Documents of Women], which is available full-text online through the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek’s AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO) [See: http://anno.onb.ac.at/]. The letter was addressed to Elsa Grailich (1880–1969). Grailich was a journalist and poet in Pressburg (Pozsony, Bratislava, in the Hungarian Kingdom, today Slovakia). She was active in the social-democratic movement and was engaged for better education and women's rights. In the Handschriftensammlung [Manuscript Department] of the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus [Vienna City Library], there are only the letters from Fickert to Grailich available. The answer letters from Grailich to Fickert are not part of the collection. In the letter from 12 October 1908, Fickert writes to Grailich that she did well to become active in the worker's movement instead of becoming active in the women's movement. Fickert wishes that the “class spirit and the class hate” stays bonded in Pressburg, allowing Grailich to continue her work. Fickert also referrers to a lecture cycle of Grailich, which Fickert would like to visit, if she would live in Pressburg. This letter is one of several from Fickert to Grailich included in this digital archive. Keywords: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Work and Class Identity; Class Discrimination; Habsburg Empire; Austria Show more Show less

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A Brief Introduction: Indian Women's Activism in the 19th and 20th Century

written by Elisabeth Armstrong, fl. 2016 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 23 page(s)

From its inception, the Indian women’s movement had three overlapping strands: leftist feminism, social reform feminism and nationalist feminism. These three strands are often portrayed as historical phases of the Indian women’s movement. In fact, throughout the 20th century these strands have nourished and c...

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Bringing International Human Rights Law Home: Judicial Colloquium on the Domestic Application of the Convention on the Elimination of All Fo...

written by United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women (New York, NY: United Nations, 2000), 329 page(s)

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