List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
Eve Nyaradi Dvorak
PART I: GENDER AND POLITICS
Chapter 1. The Gendered Politics of German
Nationalism in Austria, 1880-1900
Pieter M. Judson
Chapter 2. The Limits of Female Desire: The
Contributions of Austrian Feminists to the Sexual Debate in
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Karin J. Jusek
Chapter 3. Female Education in German-Speaking
Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 1866-1914
James C. Albisetti
Chapter 4. Women in Austrian Politics,
1890-1934: Goals and Visions
Birgitta Bada-Zaar
Chapter 5. Women in the Austrian Parliament:
Opportunities and Barriers
Gerda Neyer
PART II: WOMEN AND WORK
Chapter 6. The Gendering of the Service Sector
in Austria at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Erna Appelt
Chapter 7. Women and their Work in the Labor
Market and in the Household
Gudrun Biffl
Chapter 8. Femininity and Professionalism: A
Psychoanalytic Study of Ambition in Female Academics and Managers
in Austria
Gertraud Diem-Wille
PART III: FEMALE IDENTITIES
Chapter 9. The Discourse on Female Sexuality in
Nineteenth-Century Austria
Marie-Luise Angerer
Chapter 10. Representations of the Beginning:
Shaping Gender Identities in Written Life Stories of Women and
Men
Monika Bernold
Chapter 11. War and Gender Identity: The
Experience of Austrian Women, 1945-1950
Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann and Ela Hornung
The Contributors
David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
"... the text's greatest strength [is] having compiled essays in history, political sciences, and gender studies. The diversity of the contributions is truly impressive ... a selection of very fine and engaging essays ... [it] provides a wealth of historical information increasingly needed for cultural and literary inquiries ... allows the reader to select up-to-date scholarship..., to have statistics and historical summaries available for classroom use, and to obtain important references for an in-depth examination." · Women in German "... provides information about a group still on the margins of academic discourse to an English-speaking audience. In addition, valuable bibliographic information follows each essay." · The German Quarterly
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