be reached once it was admitted. French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau had not even mentioned the League when addressing the French parliament on the Anglo-American guarantees. The British government, for its part, provided guarantees, which made
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in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Humanism. 50 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English word fragment stems from the sixteenth century and fragmentation from the 1880s, 51 while Le Grand Robert dates the French form of
A Woman Politician in the Cold War Balkans
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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
Jaap Westbroek, Harry Nijhuis, and Laurent van der Maesen
emergence of these new sciences. First, the perpetuation of power relationships became a prominent issue in societies. The nation itself was a new concept at that time, and the Russian, Prussian, Swedish, Habsburg, and French regimes were for the first time
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Public Discourse in Interwar Yugoslavia on the Status of Women in Turkey (1923–1939)
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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
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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
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is, rather, a signal word with many synonyms that all point to a probably endless account of meanings. Any effort to pin democracy down to one meaning is a labour we're frankly warned against! 18 th century French revolutionaries, for instance
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The Little Entente of Women in Czechoslovakia
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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
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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
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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