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TITLE: Mrs. István Bordás to Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Balmazújváros, 6 August 1916. DESCRIPTION: The letter belongs to a group of letters, which gives information on a group of politically active peasant women from Balmazújváros, today North-Eastern Hungary, and Mrs. István Bordás in particular, and the relationship between them and the Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete). See also, Péter Veres, “A feministák [The Feminists],” in Falusi krónika [Village Chronicle], 2nd ed. (Budapest: Magyar Élet kiadása, 1944), 231–243 (14pp.); as well as the correspondence with Ferencz (Ferenc) Pokrócz (Pokróc), Mrs. Gábor Magyar, Mrs. István Bordás, Mrs. István Szabó, Rosika Schwimmer, and the Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association]. Mrs. Bordás reports that it has become very difficult to distribute the journal of the Feminist Association. (This is the new journal of the Association published since 1914.) Not only it is high harvest season and there is a lot of work, but also those who are not members of the organization of the women of Balmazújvaros have become “rogues,” saying that there is no need for journals, that bread is what is needed, and there is not enough of it any longer. They look into the clouds for God, while from the point of view of Mrs. Bordás, it would be better if the “earthly Gods would perish. In these, there is no human feeling any longer, they don’t have any pity for the peoples, the horrible hike in prices is unbearable. So, we just endure and suffer because we are women.” Mrs. Bordás often discusses with the working women in her spare time. “[T]he war has very much disturbed the peace of the people.” Mrs. Bordás orders only 25 copies of the next issues and will return unsold copies of the former issues later on. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; World War I; Peasant Women’s Experience of War; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political and Human Rights; Work and Class Identity; Gender and Class; Peasant Women of Balmazújváros; Peasant Women’s Activism; Mrs. István Bordás Sára Rokon Tóth; Habsburg Empire; Hungary.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

István Bordás Sára Rokon Tóth, fl. 1908

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

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Letter

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Text

Page Count

4

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and War, Women and Work, Women and Rights, Women and Politics, World War I, 1914-1918, Mujer y Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Balmazújváros, Hajdú-Bihar, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Work and Class Identity, Political and Human Rights, Empire and Feminism, Women as “Proletariat”, Social and Cultural Rights, Hungarians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Empire and Feminism, Women as “Proletariat”, Social and Cultural Rights

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política