We cordially invite you to the Book Presentation & Discussion with Editors and Authors of ‘Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights’
with
Zsófia Lórand (Vienna), Adela Hîncu (Ljubljana), Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc (Ljubljana), Alexandra Ghiţ (Vienna), Kamil Karczewski (Graz), Libora Oates-Indruchová (Graz) and Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz).
WHEN: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 5:00 p.m – 6:30 pm
WHERE: University of Graz, SZ 15.22, Resowi-Zentrum, Universitätsstraße 15 Bauteil G, 2nd floor
CONTACT: genderhistory@uni-graz.at , no registration required
About the book
A compendium of one hundred sources, preceded by a short author’s bio and an introduction, this volume offers an English language selection of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights from East Central Europe between the end of the Second World War and the early 1990s. While communist era is the primary focus, the interwar years and the post-1989 transition period also receive attention.
All texts are new translations from the original. The book is organised around themes instead of countries; the similarities and differences between nations are nevertheless pointed out.
The editors consider women not only in their local context, but also in conjunction with other systems of thought—including shared agendas with socialism, liberalism, nationalism, and even eugenics.
The choice of texts seeks to demonstrate how feminism as political thought was shaped and organised in the region. They vary in type and format from political treatises, philosophy to literary works, even films and the visual arts, with the necessary inclusion of the personal and the private. Women’s political rights, right to education, their role in nation-building, women, and war (and especially women and peace) are part of the anthology, alongside the gendered division of labour, violence against women, the body, and reproduction.
‘Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century’, ed. by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz. Central European University Press: Budapest—Vienna—New York 2024.
Open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98220
This event is a cooperation of the section of Cultural and Gender History at the Department of History, the section Sociology of Gender at the Department of Sociology, the Centre for South East European Studies, the Doctoral Programme Interdiziplinary Gender Studies, the research network Heterogeneity and Cohesion (huk) – Cluster Gender and the Field of Excellence ‘Dimensions of Europe’ – Cluster In/Equalities at Graz University.