Shifting Voices: Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary - Hardcover

Schwartz, Agatha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773532862 ISBN 13: 9780773532861

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The organized women's movement in Austria-Hungary became increasingly important with the rise of modernism and feminist concerns ranging from women's legal and political rights, access to education, professional opportunities, economic independence, and sexual freedom found expression in print. Agatha Schwartz analyses the connections between the women's movements and women's writing in Austria and Hungary to explore some differences between works written in Austria and those coming from Hungary, whose urban culture was younger. She provides critiques of major works of fiction and theory by authors such as Rosa Mayreder, Grete Meisel-Hess, Margit Kaffka and Szikra.

About this title

About the Author:

Agatha Schwartz is associate professor, German, University of Ottawa, and co-editor of The Third Shore: Women's Prose from East-Central Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0773532862
• ISBN 13: 9780773532861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288