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TITLE: Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein Wien to Božena Viková-Kunětická, June 14, 1912. DESCRIPTION: The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women’s Association] founded in 1893, was an influential association of German speaking Austrian women’s activists. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer and nationalist politician. In 1912, she was elected a deputy to the Bohemian Provincial Diet, 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. The representatives of the General Austrian Women’s Association Adele Gerber (1863-1937) and Leopoldine Kulka (1872-1920) congratulate Viková-Kunětická to her victory and describe her election as an important step for the women’s movement as a whole. KEYWORDS: Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire; Cisleithania; Vienna

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Women and Social Movements

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Corporate Author

Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein

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Letter

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Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Politics, Women and Rights, Transnational Women’s Movement, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Wien, Cisleithania (Historical Place), Vienna, Vienna State, Božena Viková-Kunětická, 1862-1934, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Suffrage, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Equal Rights for Women

Topic

Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Suffrage, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Equal Rights for Women

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Wien