Title:

The Image of Educated Women in Two Interwar Austrian Novels by Female Authors

Subtitle:

Gender and Science in East Central Europe ; Acta Poloniae Historica T. 117 (2018)

Creator:

Górny, Justyna

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Polish National Historical Committee ; Korecki, Tristan : Trans.

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2018

Description:

p. 131-158 ; 23 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Urbanitzky, Grete von ; Baum, Vicki (1888-1960) ; Austrian interwar fiction ; female student in literature (prose fiction)

Abstract:

The article sketches a portrayal of educated women in literature of the interwar period. The ways are shown in which typical experiences of women students are reflected in prose works describing the consecutive stages of scholarly career – from the beginning of one’s university studies to successful independent work. The figure of female student and scientist is shown in the novels concerned as a model example of emancipation, while the influence of a conservative concept of femininity is apparent. The model protagonist is a utopian figure as it harmoniously merges emancipative and conservative elements.

References:

Bertschik Julia, ‘“Ihr Name war ein Begriff wie Melissengeist oder Leibnizkekse”. Vicki Baum und der Berliner Ullstein-Verlag’, in Walther Fähnders and Helga Karrenbrock (eds.), Autorinnen der Weimarer Republik (Bielefeld, 2003), 119–35.
Bertschik Julia, ‘Vicki Baum: Gelebter und inszenierter Typ der “Neuen Frau”’, in Waltraud Wende (ed.), Nora verläßt ihr Puppenheim. Autorinnen des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts und ihr Beitrag zur ästhetischen Innovation (Stuttgart and Weimar, 2000), 66–87.
Bock Petra, ‘Zwischen den Zeiten – Neue Frauen und die Weimarer Republik’, in eadem/Katja Koblitz (eds.), Neue Frauen zwischen den Zeiten (Berlin, 1955), 15–37.
Huber Ursula, ‘Grete von Urbanitzky – ungeliebte Parteigängerin der Nationalsozialisten’, L’Homme Z.F.G., iv, 1 (1993), 74–88.
Huber Ursula, ‘Die Frau als “Künstlerin”. “Klugrednerei?” Fragen der weiblichen Identität und Macht in einigen Romanen Grete von Urbanitzkys’, Zeitgeschichte, xvi, 11/12 (1989), 387–95.
Kliewer Annette, Geistesfrucht und Leibesfrucht. Mütterlichkeit und “weibliches Schreiben” im Kontext der ersten bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung (Pfaffenweiler, 1993).
Nottelmann Nicole, Strategien des Erfolgs. Narratologische Analysen exemplarischer Romane Vicki Baums (Würzburg, 2002).
Nottelmann Nicole, Die Karrieren der Vicki Baum. Eine Biographie (Köln, 2007).
Weiershausen Romana, Wissenschaft und Weiblichkeit. Die Studentin in der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende (Göttingen, 2004).
Weininger Otto, Geschlecht und Charakter (Wien, 1908).

Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

117

Start page:

131

End page:

158

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0001-6829 ; 2450-8462 ; 10.12775/APH.2018.117.05

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/117 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.296/117 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Programme for the Development of the Humanities

Access:

Open