{"id":54169,"date":"2026-06-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54169"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:48:25","slug":"women-nationalism-and-social-networks-in-the-habsburg-monarchy-1848-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54169","title":{"rendered":"Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848\u20131918"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edited by Marta Verginella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purdue University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Central European Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

258 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848\u20131918<\/em> focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. By looking at a wide range of sources and employing rich historiography, this collection investigates the currents of women\u2019s emancipatory efforts in a climate of conflicting assumptions relating to nationhood and nationalization. This book sheds light on a time when both women and nations were working to assert themselves, and how women promoted the national cause in an attempt to assume stronger roles in the public sphere. The volume studies areas that were nationally mixed and linguistically plural, thus pointing to the dynamic role of peripheries and pluralism affecting women\u2019s approaches to and experience of nationalization. These essays speak to women\u2019s agency as individuals and members of the social networks, and their roles in cultural, ethnic, and political movements in pluralistic societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thereby arguing that they \u201cenacted\u201d borders and were not simply acted on by them, while also elucidating the ways they transgress the borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Marta Verginella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Women National Activists on the Margins of the Habsburg Monarchy during the Long Nineteenth Century, by Irena Seli\u0161nik and Marta Verginella<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Patterns of Romanian Women\u2019s Civil and Political Engagement in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Transylvania and Hungary, by Oana Sorescu-Iudean and Vlad Popovici<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Linguistic Policy and Pedagogical Issues in the Schools of the Austro-Hungarian Littoral: The Participation of Women in Public Debate, by Natka Badurina<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Slavic-Reciprocity Through the Female Gaze: Elizaveta de Vitte\u2019s Travels for the Building of a Slavic Cultural Network Before World War I, by Cristina Cugnata<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Carolina Coen Luzzatto: A Jewish Journalist in Gorizia at the End of the Habsburg Empire, by Tullia Catalan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Gender, Nation, and Transgression: The \u201cSevillian\u201d Lola Montez, \u201cSpanish Femininity,\u201d and European Bohemia, by Xavier Andreu-Miralles<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. The Painter Ivana Kobilca and Her Use of Social Networks, by Ur\u0161ka Strle and Beti \u017derovc<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. \u201cMy spirit is reaching to you with sympathy\u201d: Zofka Kveder\u2019s Correspondence as a Matrix of the Feminist Social Network of the Early Twentieth Century, by Katja Mihurko Poni\u017e
    Select Bibliography
    Contributors
    Index<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Marta Verginella<\/strong> is a full professor of history of the nineteenth century and theory of history at the University of Ljubljana. She currently is leading the European Research Council project titled \u201cPost-war Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of the North-Eastern Adriatic Region.\u201d Her research interests include border and national studies, gender studies, transnational history, and the political use of history in the North Adriatic area. Along with numerous articles and essays, she is the author of six books, including Il confine degli altri<\/em> (\u201cThe Border of the Others\u201d) and Donne e confini<\/em> (\u201cWomen and Borders\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    “A thoughtful and engaging book that brings new insights into the gendered fluidity of national identification in culturally pluralistic Southeastern Europe. Its focus on the ways especially intellectual women and artists moved in nationalist circles and at the same time could transcend social, cultural, and nationalist limits introduces us to the rich history of diversity as well as early feminism in the nationalist contexts of the region.” \u2014Birgitta Bader-Zaar<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History, University of Vienna<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    “The book offers a gendered perspective on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and beyond, exploring the regions that were shared between the Russian and Ottoman empires specifically focusing on women’s life stories. By examining the periphery and exploring transcultural experiences, the book contributes to the much-needed comprehensive and nuanced understanding of professional and private dilemmas women faced during the fin de si\u00e8cle period, shedding light on often overlooked cultural activities of women, highlighting the cultural diversity and heterogeneity of the urban centers in Central and Southeastern Europe.” \u2014Andrea Peto<\/strong>, Professor, Central European University, Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    “The reader is left to savor the richness of examples in the edited volume and eagerly anticipate more further enlightening case studies from other parts of the Empire and underrepresented perspectives, such as antinationalist and working-class women. ” \u2014CEU Review of Books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    “The volume complements the discussion about the conflict between feminist and nationalist movements by tracing the genealogies of individual biographies from which feminist movements later evolved.” \u2014European Journal of Women’s Studies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    “The volume edited by Marta Verginella is an innovative example of in-depth and comparative research on women\u2019s networks and biographies on the fringes of the Habsburg Monarchy.” \u2014Hungarian Studies Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \n\n\n\n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\"Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848\u20131918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism.\""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Verginella.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53712,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53712","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":0},"title":"INVITATION TO A SERIES OF SHORT LECTURES ENTITLED BEYOND PASTORAL CARE: CLERGY, SOCIETY, AND POPULAR AGENCY IN THE LATE HABSBURG EMPIRE","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"25. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"You are kindly invited to a series of short lectures entitled Beyond Pastoral Care: Clergy, Society, and Popular Agency in the Late Habsburg Empire, which will take place on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, from 11:00 to 13:00 at the Institute of Contemporary History. The event will feature a lecture by\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clergy-2.png?fit=1090%2C615&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clergy-2.png?fit=1090%2C615&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clergy-2.png?fit=1090%2C615&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clergy-2.png?fit=1090%2C615&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clergy-2.png?fit=1090%2C615&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54031,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54031","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":1},"title":"Call for Book Chapters: Alternatives to the Nation-State: Federalism, Autonomy, and Post-Imperial Imaginaries in the Mediterranean Long Nineteenth Century","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"11. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Workshop Date: September 24, 2026 - September 25, 2026 Location: Greece Subject Fields: Intellectual History, Modern European History \/ Studies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52692,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52692","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":2},"title":"Florian Bieber \u201eHvar in the Modern Age: Identity and Change in Southeast Europe\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"28. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Description\u00a0 In this open-access book, Florian Bieber traces the history of the Adriatic island of Hvar over half a millennium, from the advent of Venetian rule in the 15th century to the end of Yugoslavia in the late 20th century. The history of Hvar tells a larger story about modernity,\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Knjige"","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Florian-Bieber-Hvar-in-the-Modern-Age-Identity-and-Change-in-Southeast-Europe.webp?fit=540%2C810&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Florian-Bieber-Hvar-in-the-Modern-Age-Identity-and-Change-in-Southeast-Europe.webp?fit=540%2C810&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Florian-Bieber-Hvar-in-the-Modern-Age-Identity-and-Change-in-Southeast-Europe.webp?fit=540%2C810&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54001,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54001","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":3},"title":"5. me\u0111unarodna doktorska ljetna \u0161kola “Nations and Nationalism in the Contemporary World”","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"10. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Na Odjelu za sociologiju Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Zadru odr\u017eava se 5. me\u0111unarodna doktorska ljetna \u0161kola Nations and Nationalism in the Contemporary World od 8. do 13. lipnja 2026. koju suorganiziraju Odjel za sociologiju i The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics and Political Science. Predava\u010di\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEN-2026.jpg?fit=427%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":54118,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54118","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":4},"title":"Understanding Nationalism Today: A Conversation with Erika Harris","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"16. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Foreign Policy Forum, in partnership with the project \u201cPolitika, dru\u0161tvo i komunikacija u Jugoisto\u010dnoj Europi\u201d (POD-RUKOM), invites you to a discussion on the book The Dilemma of Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe by Professor Erika Harris (Bristol University Press, 2026).\u00a0 The event will feature Professor Erika Harris (University of\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Harris.jpg?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Harris.jpg?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Harris.jpg?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Harris.jpg?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":53473,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53473","url_meta":{"origin":54169,"position":5},"title":"CfP: Those Who Serve: Service, Labor, and Social Hierarchies in Historical Perspective","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"19. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Doctoral and Postdoctoral Workshop: Ljubljana, 12\u201313 November 2026 Keynote: prof. dr. Jane Whittle (University of Exeter) From domestic servants and agricultural laborers to apprentices, soldiers, and clerks \u2013 countless people across history lived and worked in the service of others. This workshop explores service not merely as a job category,\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54173,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54169\/revisions\/54173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}