Gender and modernity in central Europe : the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its legacy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schwartz, Agata, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2010.
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Table of 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.