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Title: Dr. Elena Bratu to Alexandrina Cantacuzino, September 30, 1932. Description: Letter from Dr. Elena Bratu (president of GFR / Romanian Women’s Organization, Cluj branch) to Alexandrina Cantacuzino (president of GFR/ Romanian Women’s Organization), September 30, 1932 in which it was discussed the GFR Congress in Cluj. The letter is important for it touches on the thorny “minority question” in Transylvania. In 1932, Alexandrina Cantacuzino invited the minority women’s associations from Transylvania to participate at the congress of GFR in Cluj and discuss together “the advantages and disadvantages of the universal suffrage”. As the letter also shows, this invitation worried the leaders of GFR branches based in Transylvania. The participation of minority women could also raise tensions at the meeting since the Transylvanian GFR members planned to commemorate at the meeting the 40th anniversary of the Memorandum trial of Romanian nationalists and celebrate women’s involvement with preserving the national identity during the Hungarian rule. Keywords: Women’s suffrage, women’s solidarity, ethnicity, minority question, nationalism

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Elena Bratu, fl. 1932

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Content Type

Letter

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0 sec

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Text

Page Count

2

Page Range

1-2

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Social Reform, Women and Politics, Women and Rights, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Rumania, Romênia, Romania, Alexandrina Cantacuzino, 1876-1944, Political and Human Rights, Social and Cultural Rights, Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women, Romanians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Social and Cultural Rights, Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Rumania, Romênia