Women in Austria

by Bischof,Gunter

• ISBN13: 9780765804044
• ISBN10: 0765804042
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that is still not completed in spite of many advances. The chapters in Women in Austria attest to the growing interest and vibrancy in the area of women's studies in Austria and present a cross-section of new research in this field to an international audience. The volume includes with book reviews on Austrian business history, the Waldheim memoirs, Jews in postwar Austria, and political scandals in twentieth-century Austria. Women in Austria covers a plethora of significant social issues and will be essential to the work of women's studies scholars, sociologists, historians, and Austrian area specialists.

Table of Contents

TOPICAL ESSAYS	1	(119)
Erika Thurner
Introduction	1	(4)
Helga Embacher
Middle Class, Liberal, Intellectual, Female, and Jewish. The Expulsion of "Female Rationality" from Austria	5	(10)
Doris Godl
Women's Contributions to the Political Policies of National Socialism	15	(13)
Erika Thurner
Austrian Women in the Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement in Belgian Exile	28	(13)
Ingrid Bauer
"Austria's Prestige Dragged into the Dirt"? The "GI-Brides" and Postwar Austrian Society (1945-1955)	41	(15)
Gabriella Hauch
Rights At Last? The First Generation of Female Members of Parliament in Austria	56	(27)
Erna M. Appelt
Women in the Austrian Economy	83	(21)
Sieglinde Katharina Rosenberger
Politics, Gender, and Equality	104	(16)
FORUM: AUSTRIA AND THE GHOST OF THE NEW EUROPE	120	(54)
Anton Pelinka
Introduction	120	(6)
Tony Judt
Austria and the Ghost of the New Europe	126	(15)
Gabriele Holzer
Haider Business	141	(17)
Thomas Nowotny
Judt Business	158	(6)
Brigitte Bailer
Wolfgang Neugebauer
The FPO of Jorg Haider--Populist or Extreme Right-Winger?	164	(10)
HISTORIOGRAPHY ROUNDTABLE: PLACING JOHN BOYER'S WORK IN AUSTRIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY	174	(47)
Gunter Bischof
Introduction	174	(1)
Pieter M. Judson
John Boyer's Work in a Comparative Context	175	(14)
Steven Beller
John Boyer's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna	189	(13)
Ernst Hanisch
John Boyer and Austrian Twentieth-Century History	202	(11)
Anton Pelinka
John Boyer and Austrian Political Culture	213	(8)
REVIEW ESSAYS	221	(41)
Herman Freudenberger
Business History in Austria	221	(21)
Peter Berger
Ernst Hanisch
Der lange Schatten des Staates. Osterreichische Gesellschaftsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, and Roman Sandgruber, Okonomie und Politik. Osterreichische Wirtschaftsgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart	242	(12)
Erika Thurner
New Literature on Women in Austria	254	(8)
BOOK REVIEWS	262	(38)
Andrei S. Markovits
Michael Gehler and Hubert Sickinger, eds., Politische Affaren und Skandale in Osterreich	262	(7)
Christopher R. Jackson
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners	269	(10)
Evan Burr Bukey
Hermann Hagspiel, Die Ostmark: Osterreich im GroBdeutschen Reich 1938 bis 1945	279	(6)
Siegfried Beer
Neal H. Petersen, ed., From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles 1942-1945, and Gerald Schwab, OSS Agents in Hitler's Heartland: Destination Innsbruck	285	(6)
Bruce F. Pauley
Helga Embacher, Neubeginn ohne Illusionen: Juden in Osterreich nach 1945	291	(4)
Jonathan Petropoulos
Kurt Waldheim, Die Antwort	295	(5)
ANNUAL REVIEW	300	(7)
Reinhold Gartner
Survey of Austrian Politics 1996	300	(7)
LIST OF AUTHORS	307