At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society
was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and
identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within
the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its
dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by
the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal,
radical right-wing and Communist regimes that ruled the empire's
successor states in the twentieth century. While these values have
taken on new dimensions again in the post-Communist period, the
Habsburg Monarchy's influence on gender and modernity in Central
Europe is still palpable.
With a truly interdisciplinary approach - drawing on the fields
of women's studies, gender studies, sociology, history, literature,
art, and psychoanalysis - that touches on a variety of subjects -
gender roles, sexual identities, misogyny, painting, writing,
minorities - this volume explores the lasting impact of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire in contemporary Central Europe, which is
fraught with gender conflict and tension between modernist and
anti-modernist forces.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a fascinating multi-ethnic
society. Its experience and understanding of gender and modernity
provides important, relevant lessons for today's world as it
becomes increasingly intercultural and as issues of identity become
more and more complex.
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