This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history.

Mary Jo Maynes at the Department of History, University of Minnesota.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface

Introduction
Eve Nyaradi Dvorak

PART I: GENDER AND POLITICS

Chapter 1. The Gendered Politics of German Nationalism in Austria, 1880-1900
Pieter M. Judson

Chapter 2. The Limits of Female Desire: The Contributions of Austrian Feminists to the Sexual Debate in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Karin J. Jusek

Chapter 3. Female Education in German-Speaking Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 1866-1914
James C. Albisetti

Chapter 4. Women in Austrian Politics, 1890-1934: Goals and Visions
Birgitta Bada-Zaar

Chapter 5. Women in the Austrian Parliament: Opportunities and Barriers
Gerda Neyer

PART II: WOMEN AND WORK

Chapter 6. The Gendering of the Service Sector in Austria at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Erna Appelt

Chapter 7. Women and their Work in the Labor Market and in the Household
Gudrun Biffl

Chapter 8. Femininity and Professionalism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Ambition in Female Academics and Managers in Austria
Gertraud Diem-Wille

PART III: FEMALE IDENTITIES

Chapter 9. The Discourse on Female Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Austria
Marie-Luise Angerer

Chapter 10. Representations of the Beginning: Shaping Gender Identities in Written Life Stories of Women and Men
Monika Bernold

Chapter 11. War and Gender Identity: The Experience of Austrian Women, 1945-1950
Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann and Ela Hornung

The Contributors