Women In Austria

Author : Gunter Bischof,Anton Pelinka,Erika Thurner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351299060

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Women in Austria by Gunter Bischof,Anton Pelinka,Erika Thurner Pdf

The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that is still not completed in spite of many advances. The chapters in Women in Austria attest to the growing interest and vibrancy in the area of women's studies in Austria and present a cross-section of new research in this field to an international audience. The volume includes with book reviews on Austrian business history, the Waldheim memoirs, Jews in postwar Austria, and political scandals in twentieth-century Austria. Women in Austria covers a plethora of significant social issues and will be essential to the work of women's studies scholars, sociologists, historians, and Austrian area specialists.

Author : David F. Good,Margarete Grandner,Mary Jo Maynes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1571810455

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Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by David F. Good,Margarete Grandner,Mary Jo Maynes Pdf

This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history.

Author : M. Sagaria
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230603509

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Women, Universities, and Change by M. Sagaria Pdf

This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.

Author : Inge Gross,Werner Vötsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017097283

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Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Rolle der Frau in Österreich by Inge Gross,Werner Vötsch Pdf

Author : Agata Schwartz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776607269

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Gender and Modernity in Central Europe by Agata Schwartz Pdf

At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. The concepts of gender and modernity were modified by the various regimes that ruled the empire's successor states in the twentieth century and have been redefined again in the post-Communist period, but the Habsburg Monarchy's influence on gender and modernity in Central Europe is still palpable. With a truly interdisciplinary approach ù drawing on the fields of women's studies, gender studies, sociology, history, literature, art, and psychoanalysis ùthat touches on gender roles, sexual identities, misogyny, painting, writing, minorities ù this volume explores the lasting impact of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in contemporary Central Europe, which is fraught with gender conflict and tension between modernist and anti-modernist forces.

Author : Inge Gross,Beatrix Wiedenhofer,Werner Vötsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Women
ISBN : 3850100243

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Die Wirtschaftliche und soziale Rolle der Frau in Österreich by Inge Gross,Beatrix Wiedenhofer,Werner Vötsch Pdf

Author : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein,Rose Laub Coser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429753121

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Access to Power by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein,Rose Laub Coser Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this book is composed of papers that describe and analyse women’s careers in government, business, and the professions. It examines women’s access to and participation in elite careers in the US, and in selected countries of western and eastern Europe – Britain, France, West Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Yugoslavia – as well as in international organizations. This book was an outgrowth of a conference on ‘Women in decision-making elites in cross-national perspective,’ held at King’s College, Cambridge University, in July 1976. The countries represented were chosen because, although they were at similar stages of economic development, they exhibited differences in political structure, ideology, and tradition.

Author : Susanne Feigl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X001318318

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Women in Austria, 1975-1985 by Susanne Feigl Pdf

Author : Ritchie Robertson,Edward Timms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012326216

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Gender and Politics in Austrian Fiction by Ritchie Robertson,Edward Timms Pdf

This volume of essays on Austrian fiction, compiled at a time when Austria is forming stronger links within the European Union, illustrates a transition from traditional preoccupations with character differences between Austrian and German literature to wider concerns of politics and gender. Fictional treatments of such issues as male homosexuality, problems in feminism, the representation of women in male-authored texts and anti-war protest are examined both in well-known novels and in little-known works by underrated authors. Many of the authors discussed have received insufficient recognition because they do not fall within a familiar canon of German literature. The specialised research involved in compiling this material is accessible through a series of book reviews included at the end of the volume which range in subject area from the life of an eighteenth-century soldier in the Habsburg service to the continuing discussion on Austrian identity.

Author : Constanze Volkmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658239527

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Muslim Women in Austria and Germany Doing and Undoing Gender by Constanze Volkmann Pdf

Constanze Volkmann develops an innovative new gender theory labeled doing and undoing gender. Based on empirical findings she examines the highly debated intersection of gender and Islam. The analysis of interviews with various Muslim women unravels the many different ways in which gender is done and undone. Especially with regard to potential gender hierarchies, the results reveal that the category ‘gender’ is irrelevant to many Muslim women and is even used as a means to foster their status and power as women. This book makes a substantial contribution to a differentiated social debate at eye level with Muslim women.

Author : Yvonne Bleyerveld
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Burgundy (France)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018443132

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Women of Distinction by Yvonne Bleyerveld Pdf

This lavishly illustrated handbook was conceived to accompany an international exhibition organised by the city of Mechelen (Malines) in 2005. Both the exhibition and the catalogue highlight an important aspect of Burgundian culture: the impact of noble women on life at the court and in the city around 1500. Margaret of York (1446-1503), the English princess married to Duke Charles-the-Bold, and Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), the only daughter of Mary of Burgundy, both lived in Mechelen as well-to-do widows and are therefore the focal point of this publication. At the time, the city of Mechelen was the cosmopolitan and administrative centre of the Burgundian Netherlands. It forms the stage on which their lives as dowager duchess and as regent of the Netherlands unfold. Both women carried high responsibilities in matters of education, learning, devotion, government, diplomacy, patronage, public appearance and court etiquette. The book looks at the way in which court ladies were meant to behave within a given societal framework and also discusses how each individual interpreted her role by actively negotiating her position of authority. The sixteen essays which introduce the five distinct catalogue sections were written by leading scholars from different disciplines such as Wim Blockmans, Krista De Jonge, Dagmar Eichberger, Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Anne-Marie Legare, Philippe Lorentz and Walter Prevenier. This book provides much more than a biographical account of two "women of distinction," but regards their lives as paradigmatic for upper-class women of that time. The study takes a fresh look at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period and offers the reader essential information as well as new insights into matters of gender and female concern.

Author : Éva Fodor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822384489

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Working Difference by Éva Fodor Pdf

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women's lives in the two countries, which were once part of the same empire, followed similar paths, which only began to diverge after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s. Fodor takes advantage of Austria and Hungary's common history to carefully examine the effects of state socialism and the differing trajectories to social mobility and authority available to women in each country. Fodor brings qualitative and quantitative analyses to bear, combining statistical analyses of survey data, interviews with women managers in both countries, and archival materials including those from the previously classified archives of the Hungarian communist party and transcripts from sessions of the Austrian Parliament. She shows how women's access to power varied in degree and operated through different principles and mechanisms in accordance with the stratification systems of the respective countries. In Hungary women's mobility was curtailed by political means (often involving limited access to communist party membership), while in Austria women's professional advancement was affected by limited access to educational institutions and the labor market. Fodor discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's "gender regimes" following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union.

Author : Gunter Bischof,Anton Pelinka,Dagmar Herzog
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412809788

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Sexuality in Austria by Gunter Bischof,Anton Pelinka,Dagmar Herzog Pdf

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexu- ality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This volume examines both continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria. Sexuality in Austria reflects the broad variety of such recent research. Maria Mesner surveys the growing number of sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna, some driven by eugenics, others by social concerns. Ties with Margaret Sanger's birth control movement in the U.S. are also documented. Ingrid Bauer and Renate Huber are the first scholars to treat the "foreign encounters" between Austrian women and occupation soldiers during the postwar quadripartite Austrian occupation regime in a comparative framework. Franz Eder traces the growing presence of sexual issues in post-World War II popular media and suggests parallels with the German case. Marcel Scheffknecht shows how Austria was not spared the changes in sexual mores during the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s. Matti Bunzl analyses the legal penalties for homosexuality in postwar Austria and the liberation of the gay movement as a result of EU pressures after Austria joined the European Union in 1995. Peter Judson analyzes the major influence of the Catholic Church on Austrian sexuality through the lens of a recent gay and sex abuse scandals in the church hierarchy. In "romancing the foreigner" Julia Woesthoff analyzes the growing presence of foreign workers (gastarbeiter) in postwar Austria and their sexual contacts with natives. In a "non-topical essay" Katharina Wegan views the Austrian historical memory of the Austrian State Treaty through the fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 2005. Review essays and book reviews and the annual review of Austrian politics complete this volume. Sexuality in Austria will be of interest to cultural studies specialists, historians, psychologists, and sociologists.

Author : M. E. Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Austria
ISBN : OCLC:1436381668

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A Fortnight in Austria in 1920 by M. E. Ferguson Pdf

Author : Jo Catling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521656281

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A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Jo Catling Pdf

This volume makes the wide-ranging work of German women writers visible to a wider audience. It is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume, which will be indispensable for students and scholars of German literature, and all those interested in women's and gender studies.