Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Feminism, the Women's Movement, and Women's Writing in the Context of Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary 3
6. A “First Wave”: The Emergence of a Feminist Discourse in Austria and Hungary¹ 20
7. The Fight for Women's Education, Suffrage, and a New Sexual Paradigm 35
8. Feminism, Misogyny, and Viriphobia and Their Dialogic Relationship 74
9. The New Woman's Thorny Road to Independence 97
10. Sexuality, Desire, and the Female Subject 121
11. A Return to Tradition? 167
12. The City and its Metaphors 183
13. Conclusion 195
14. Authors' Biographies 201
15. Bibliography of Hungarian Fin-de-Siècle Women Writers 212
16. Notes 243
17. Bibliography 255
18. Index 271