Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. By looking at a wide range of sources and employing rich historiography, this collection investigates the currents of women's emancipatory efforts in a climate of conflicting assumptions relating to nationhood and nationalization. This book sheds light on a time when both women and nations were working to assert themselves, and how women promoted the national cause in an attempt to assume stronger roles in the public sphere. The volume studies areas that were nationally mixed and linguistically plural, thus pointing to the dynamic role of peripheries and pluralism affecting women's approaches to and experience of nationalization. These essays speak to women's agency as individuals and members of the social networks, and their roles in cultural, ethnic, and political movements in pluralistic societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thereby arguing that they "enacted" borders and were not simply acted on by them, while also elucidating the ways they transgress the borders.

About the Author
Marta Verginella is a full professor of history of the nineteenth century and theory of history at the University of Ljubljana. She currently is leading the European Research Council project titled "Post-war Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of the North-Eastern Adriatic Region." Her research interests include border and national studies, gender studies, transnational history, and the political use of history in the North Adriatic area. Along with numerous articles and essays, she is the author of six books, including Il confine degli altri ("The Border of the Others") and Donne e confini ("Women and Borders").


Book Information
ISBN 9781612499307
Author Marta Verginella
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint Purdue University Press
Publisher Purdue University Press
Weight(grams) 272g