Milica Đurić Topalović i žensko pitanje u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji

This paper discusses the views of Milica Đurić Topalović, one of the most prominent female socialists in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, on the woman question. Her unjustly neglected works Woman and Politics and Woman through Centuries have been taken as examples of characteristic socialist discourses on women’s emancipation. Milica Đurić Topalović’s views greatly advance our knowledge about the relations between various women’s organizations in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the similarities and differences between their interpretations of the concept of emancipation and the solutions to the pressing issue of women’s suffrage.

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Utopian Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and the Origins of Middlemarch

Imagining Socialism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780192896490.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 156-187

Author(s):

Mark A. Allison

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Woman Question ◽

Women's Suffrage ◽

Victorian Novels ◽

Communist Manifesto ◽

Institutional Politics ◽

Women's Emancipation ◽

Utopian Socialism ◽

Charles Fourier ◽

Women’S Suffrage

This chapter demonstrates that George Eliot’s investigation of the early, “utopian” socialists catalyzed the writing of perhaps the most iconic of all Victorian novels, Middlemarch (1871–2). The utopian socialists (as Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, and their followers were increasingly known) frequently suggested that the transition to a new, nongovernmental social order hinged upon the emancipation of women. Their untimely calls for female liberation became newly salient with the coalescence, in the 1860s, of Britain’s first national campaign for women’s suffrage. This chapter’s reading of Middlemarch shows that socialist discourse provides Eliot a rich symbolic vocabulary with which to conduct her own novelistic investigation of the “Woman Question”—and to engage in a clandestine meditation on the claims of the suffragists. By incorporating socialist elements into her novel, Eliot could unobtrusively position herself in relation to the ideals and activities of this burgeoning movement—a movement in which a number of her closest friends were involved. Attending to Middlemarch’s socialist motif demystifies the novel’s shrouded origins and decodes a hitherto illegible record of Eliot’s proto-feminist aspirations which, like the early socialists’ own, were inextricably intertwined with skepticism about institutional politics. This chapter also provides a genealogy of “utopian socialism,” a category that has exerted a distorting influence on scholarship since Marx and Engels tarred their rivals with it in The Communist Manifesto.

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A inserção feminina na política: uma análise da primeira edição do “Boletim da Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino”

Revista Vernáculo ◽

10.5380/rv.v0i36.36522 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Aline Isabel Waszak

Keyword(s):

Women's Suffrage ◽

Women In Politics ◽

Historical Source ◽

Political Group ◽

Women's Emancipation ◽

Women’S Suffrage ◽

Brazilian Politics

Resumo: Este artigo visa discutir a inclusão da mulher na política no contexto do Brasil republicano. Para isso, utilizarei o Boletim da Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino, analisando o ponto de vista defendido por este grupo político, a classe a qual pertenciam, bem como os seus meios de inserção na política brasileira. A fonte data do ano de 1934 e foi o meio de divulgação dos ideais defendidos pela Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino. Criado no ano de 1922, uma de suas principais lutas foi o direito do voto e da emancipação feminina, teve como líder a sufragista Bertha Lutz.Palavras-chave: Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino, Brasil República, Sufrágio Feminino, Feminismo, Bertha Lutz.Abstract: This article aims to explore the inclusion of women in politics in the context of Brazilian Republican. For this, I will use the Bulletin of the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women, analyzing the view expressed by this political group, the class which they belonged, as well as their means of insertion in Brazilian politics. The historical source is from 1934 and it was the vehicle of dissemination of the ideals espoused by the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women. Founded in 1922, one of it’s main struggles was the women’s suffrage and women's emancipation, their leader was the suffragist Bertha Lutz.Keywords: Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women, Brazilian Republican, Women’s Suffrage, Feminism, Bertha Lutz.

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Pressuring the Politburo: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and State Socialist Feminism

Slavic Review ◽

10.5612/slavicreview.73.3.538 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 538-562 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Kristen Ghodsee

Keyword(s):

Women's Movement ◽

Women's Organizations ◽

Eastern Bloc ◽

Woman Question ◽

Eastern European ◽

Socialist Feminism ◽

State Bureaucracy ◽

State Socialist ◽

Women’S Organizations

National women's organizations were a ubiquitous feature of all of the eastern European communist nations. Although the specificities of these organizations varied from country to country, they were all state-run mass organizations variously charged with mobilizing domestic women and representing their nations at international forums concerning women's rights. In the west, these state women's organizations were treated with suspicion; they were often viewed as tools of authoritarian control, mobilizing women to fulfill party goals. It is rarely considered that eastern bloc women may have used their privileged relationship with the Communist Party to promote policies that actually helped women, or that they could push back at male patriarchal elites by appealing to higher communist principles regarding the woman question. This article is a case study of the Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement. It demonstrates that this organization, despite its entanglement with the state bureaucracy, was relatively successful in pressuring the Bulgarian Politburo into expanding rights and entitlements to women between 1968 and 1990.

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