Research Catalog

Title

Gender and modernity in Central Europe / edited by Agatha Schwartz.

Publication

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Schwartz, Agata, 1961-

Description

vi, 337 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 drawing on the fields of women's studies, gender studies, sociology, history, literature, art, and psychoanalysis that touches on gender roles, sexual identities, misogyny, painting, writing, minorities 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Austria > Civilization > 19th century
• Sex role > Austria > History > 20th century
• Austria > Civilization > 20th century
• Sex role > Austria > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-287) and index.

Contents

Constructing gender in Vienna and Beyond. Ethnic and sexual tension in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy : a case of mistaken identity in Grete Meisel-Hess's "Zwei vergnügte Tage" / Helga Thorson ; Public debates and private jokes in Gustav Klimt's The Kiss : effeminate aestheticism, virile masculinity, or both? / Jill Scott ; Modernity and masculinity : cycling in Hungary at the end of the 19th century / Miklós Hadas ; Czech mates : locating and gendering the competing Habsburgian presences at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 / Susan Ingram -- The impact of Viennese modernity in literature. Svevo's Uomo senza qualità : Musil and modernism in Italy / Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski ; Everything the same as here : misogyny in Czech Modernist poetry at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century / Marcin Filipowicz -- The contribution of Jewish women to Viennese modernity. The Jewish salons of Vienna / Alison Rose ; If a woman should be true to her natural destiny, she ought not to compete with men : Jewish intellectual women between anti-semitism and misogyny in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna / Michaela Raggam-Blesch -- Early psychoanalysis and its legacy. Woman as theory and theory-maker in the early years of psychoanalysis / Anna Borgos ; Metapsychological mythopoiesis : on Sándor Ferenczi's theory of sexual difference and the agonic conception of life / J. Edgar Bauer ; Gender, hysteria, and war neurosis / Ferenc Erős -- The historical and cultural legacy of Austria-Hungary. The intnernment of political suspects in Austria-Hungary during the First Wolrd War : a violent legacy? / Matthew Stibbe ; Engendering borders : the Austro-Yugoslav Border Conflict following the First World War / Tina Bahovec ; From "Guardian angel of Hungary" to "Sissi look-alike contest" : the making and remaking of the cult of Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary / Judith Szapor.

Call Number

JFE 10-5801

ISBN

• 9780776607269
• 077660726X

OCLC

541668319

Title

Gender and modernity in Central Europe / edited by Agatha Schwartz.

Imprint

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-287) and index.

Added Author

Schwartz, Agata, 1961-

Research Call Number

JFE 10-5801