Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe ; 19th and 20th centuries

This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women's movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian 'literary feminists,' Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women's movements and feminisms.

Annotation Contains 150 expertly-researched biographical portraits (with pictures) of women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The portraits include Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Catholic social workers, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals and philanthropists, Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, and so on, from all walks of life. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity, rejecting the notion that either there was no feminism here, or that it was 'imported from the West.' The editors conclude that "if our biographical subjects were able to bridge the contradictions between feminism, nationalism, socialism, communism, philanthropy and revolution in their own lives--then surely historiansmust adopt similarly open approaches to their own research and methodologies, rather than creating forms of closure through the use of predefined and potentially limited categories

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Advisory Board Members (Country Coordinators) -- Often Used Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- Subjects per Country* -- ALIYE, Fatma (1862-1936) -- APPONYI, Countess, Mrs Count Albert Apponyi, born Countess Clotilde, Klotild Dietrichstein- Mensdorff- Pouilly ( 1867- 1942) -- ARIAN, Praskov'ia Naumovna Belenkaia ( 1864/ 5- 1949) -- ARMAND, Inessa- Elizaveta Fiodorovna ( 1874- 1920) -- ASPAZIJA ( Elza Rozenberga, in marriage Pliekša- ne) ( 1865- 1943) -- ATANASIJEVIC, Ksenija ( 1894- 1981) -- BACHMANN, Ingeborg ( 1926- 1973) -- BAIULESCU, Maria ( 1860- 1941) -- BELOVIC-BERNADZIKOWSKA, Jelica ( 1870- 1946) -- BENICZKY, Hermin ( Mrs Pál Veres) ( 1815- 1895) -- BISCHITZ, Johanna ( born Hani Fischer, later Johanna Hevesi Bischitz) ( 1827- 1898) -- BLAGOEVA, Vela ( 1858- 1921) -- BOJADJIEVA NASTEVA-RUSINSKA, Kostadina ( 1880- 1932) -- BORTKEVICIENE . , Felicija ( 1873- 1945) -- BOTEZ, Calypso ( 1880-?) -- BUDZINSKA- TYLICKA, Justyna ( 1867- 1936) -- BUJWIDOWA, Kazimiera ( 1867- 1932) -- CANTACUZINO, Princess Alexandrina ( 1876- 1944) -- CHEKHOVA, Mariia Aleksandrovna Argamakova ( 1866- 1934) -- ÇOBA, Shaqe ( Marie) ( 1875- 1954) -- DASZYNSKA-GOLINSKA, Zofia ( 1866- 1934) -- DEJANOVIC ( Dejanovich), Draga ( born Dimitrijevic) ( 1840- 1871) -- DERVIS, Suat (Saadet Baraner) (1905-1972) -- DESPOT, Blazenka ( 1930- 2001) -- DJIONAT, Elena ( 1888-?) -- EDIB ADIVAR, Halide (1884-1964) -- ENGELGARDT, Anna ( 1838- 1903) -- EZERA, Regi- na ( born Šamreto) ( 1930- 2002) -- FICKERT, Auguste ( 1855- 1910) -- FILOSOFOVA, Anna Pavlovna, born Diaghileva ( 1837- 1912) -- FRUMKIN, Esther ( real name Malka Lifschitz, Esfir' Frumkina in Russian, known as Esther Frumkin in English) ( 1880- 1943) -- GALDIKIENE . , Magdalena ( 1891- 1979)