Gender and nation in East Central Europe : an uneasy history / edited by Marta Cieślak and Anna Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cieślak, Marta, 1979- editor.

Müller, Anna, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Europe, Central--Social conditions.

Sex role--Europe, Eastern--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Europe, Central--History.

National characteristics, East European.

National characteristics, Central European.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Central--Social conditions.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

vi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]

Summary:

"This book explores the tumultuous relationships between gender and national identities during the formative period of East Central European nation-building"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Gender, nation, and uneasy histories in East Central Europe / Marta Cieślak

"She sang her child to sleep in Wallachian" : imagining and living Romanian : Magyar intermarriage in late Habsburg Hungary / Ágoston Berecz

Max Pleschner : women, family, and nation in Czech-Jewish identity / Maeva Berghmans

Gender, nation and demography : pronatalist discourse and gender in interwar Hungary / Gábor Koloh

Mothers of the nation, or how national women writers are created / Lena Magnone

Warrior or damsel? Representations of the nation as a woman / Erin Dusza

Gender and national memory in the intersections of European female roles : Júlia Szendrey, the Hungarian "George Sand" and the widow of the nation / Emese Gyimesi

East-Central European women and the struggle for equality : rethinking internationalist women's movements in the long nineteenth century / Natalie Cornett

Male Poland, global ambitions, and the turn towards discipline : Polish nationalism at the turn of the 20th century in the context of East-Central Europe / Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez

Women for the nation : Ukrainian elites and their emancipated daughters in Habsburg Lviv at the turn of the twentieth century / Ivanna Cherchovych

Nurturing the nation : farmwives and the (home)making of the modern Polish countryside, 1918-1939 / Michał J. Wilczewski

The interwar women's rights activist Paulina Lebl Albala and the question of national identity / Svetlana Stefanović.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender and nation in East Central Europe

ISBN:

9781666940589

1666940585

OCLC:

1463265883