Progressive Women's Movements in Austria and Hungary: Conflict, Cooperation, Circulation

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Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner

Progressive Women's Movements in Austria and Hungary

Conflict, Cooperation, Circulation

Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner

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Hungarian

Indiana University Press
02 September 2025

European history; Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women; Revolutionary groups & movements

Series: Studies in Hungarian History

At the dawn of the twentieth century, three trailblazing women's associations emerged from the Austro-Hungarian middle class: Vienna's Allgemeiner österreichischer Frauenverein (AöF) and Budapest's closely linked Nőtisztviselők Országos Egyesülete (NOE) and Feministák Egyesülete (FE). Spearheaded by educated professional women, these groups championed progressive and often radical ideals, forging robust international connections with other women's movements. However, the shifting political landscapes in Austria and Hungary eventually led to their decline and near-erasure from history.

In Progressive Women's Movements in Austria and Hungary, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner dives deeply into these movements, transcending conscribed national narratives to uncover the daily workings of these Austrian bourgeois-liberal and Hungarian feminist organizations. She reveals how they both influenced and were influenced by international activism. Unlike their contemporaries in the Christian-Social and Socialist Democratic women's movements, the AöF, NOE, and FE operated independently of official political parties, leveraging the influential connections of their leaders and using strategic publicity to garner support. Despite their mutual inspirations and connections, these organizations had significant differences. They varied in their origins, their ability to engage rural members, and their strategies for achieving their goals.

Fedeles-Czeferner employs entangled history methodologies to examine these organizations' foundations, key figures, memberships, objectives, and activities from the beginning of the 20th century until the beginning of the 1920s. By challenging regional narratives that have marginalized these radical women's movements, she reconnects Austria-Hungary's pre-war feminist past to its transnational roots, revealing their true historical significance.

By: Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780253072771
ISBN 10: 0253072778
Series: Studies in Hungarian History
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 02 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology Introduction 1. Scholarship on the bourgeois-liberal, feminist movement in Hungary and Austria 2. Austria-Hungary in the fin de siècle 3. The Austro-Hungarian women's movement until the fin de siècle and the different branches of women's movement 4. The Austrian association: The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein 5. The Hungarian associations: Nőtisztviselők Országos Egyesülete and Feministák Egyesülete 6. Similarities and differences among the three associations Conclusion Bibliography Index

Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner is Research Fellow at the HUN REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History. She is the author of two monographs in Hungarian. This is her first book to be published in English.