the Women’s International Democratic Federation, or WIDF—to which they belonged. The WIDF was a left-wing organization, established in Paris in 1945 with the French scientist and feminist Eugenie Cotton (1881–1967) in charge; it had a broad political
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Modern Women in a Modern State
Public Discourse in Interwar Yugoslavia on the Status of Women in Turkey (1923–1939)
Anđelko Vlašić
and hij abs, “so that it all looked more like a bag than like a dress,” commented Harambašić, adding that women were “not ashamed—neither were their European sisters—of their feminine charms.” 95 Yugoslavs exhibited their fascination with French
Selin Çağatay
several aspects from the experiences of women in Western countries (such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States) who had to enter paid employment in order to replace the men who went to war. Muslim women’s participation in paid
Between Transnational Cooperation and Nationalism
The Little Entente of Women in Czechoslovakia
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
Warsaw conference. Documents prepared for the meeting mentioned the proposed name in French as “l'Union féministe et pacifiste des femmes du Sud-Est Européen,” but it was not accepted or even discussed further. 35 The 1929 LEW conference in Warsaw was
Krassimira Daskalova
support of the French delegation, the new organization chose to be represented by the Greek feminist Avra Theodoropoulou. 6 The goals of the LEW—transnational collaboration and actions for resolving “the woman question”—were already visible in the
The Making of a Fundamental Value
A History of the Concept of Separation of Church and State in the Netherlands
Mart Rutjes
short-lived: the Constitution of 1801 reversed the financial disestablishment of the previous years, and under the successive regimes of the French Bonapartes (1806–1813) and King William I (1813–1840), the state strengthened and expanded its involvement
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“Home Is Home No Longer”
Political Struggle in the Domestic Sphere in Postarmistice Hungary, 1919-1922
Emily R. Gioielli
of Poverty Policy, Social Policy, and Social Reform in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011), esp. 56–64. 7 Keith Baker, Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the
Appropriations and Contestations of the Islamic Nomenclature in Muslim North India
Elitism, Lexicography, and the Meaning of The Political
Jan-Peter Hartung
rather heavy ideological baggage. This was well acknowledged by the, in this regard, emblematic French encyclopédistes , who made no pretense of their elitist aspiration to establish a new language regime against what they considered to be the
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Love and Sex in Wartime
Controlling Women’s Sexuality in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground
Marta Havryshko
expectations of gender, ideas about sexuality, national identity, and racial ideology. In particular, the punishment of women for “horizontal collaboration” during the Nazi occupation of France, Norway, Belgium, and Denmark has been widely researched. In
Precarious Time, Morality, and the Republic
New Granada, 1818–1853
Francisco A. Ortega
outrage at the French invasion and proffered their devotion to Ferdinand VII. It was not, as nationalistic historiographies claim, the opportunity pro-independence patriotic forces were eagerly awaiting to launch their final attack on so-called Spanish
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