ISBN:
9786155053726
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (698 pages)
DDC:
305.42092/24
Schlagwort(e):
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Feminists Biography
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Dictionaries
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Feminists Biography
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Dictionaries
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Feminists Biography
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Dictionaries
Kurzfassung:
This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9786155053726
URL:
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