CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Kardum, Marijana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Little Entente's Women and Men: Shaping Feminist Networks and Geopolitics in the Interwar CESEE |
| Summary | After World War One there was a divide between suffrage and “non-suffrage” nation(s). The Little Entente of Women (LEW) sought to unify women beyond national borders in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CESEE). My thesis focused on transnational cooperation between the member organizations of the Little Entente of Women (Greece, Czechoslovakia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (i.e., Yugoslavia), Poland, and Romania), in the period from the establishment of the organization in 1923 to 1938. Contrary to the internationalist discourse that they heavily relied on, this thesis shows how the LEW was instead maintaining the post-Versailles order. Moreover, the national aspirations of the LEW members seriously limited their proclaimed internationalism. This thesis represents a research of an undiscussed topic that intends to analyze intertwined political and feminist discursive practices used in and around the LEW: on the organizational, personal, and on the level of ideas. Besides the fifteen years long period when the first interwar transnational and regional women’s organization in the region was active, I focused also on the years preceding the end of the Great War and the establishment of the new countries in the CESEE – to analyze how the so-called “national question” impacted the women organizing. The analysis of the processes of reception, transformation, reinterpretation and rejection of ideas in the framework of the LEW will enable comparison of diverse women’s perspectives of contemporary political realities. The thesis contributes to the ongoing debates at the crossroads of women’s history, political thought, transnational history and nationalism studies. More precisely, it would add up to research in interwar transnational (feminist) networking. Keywords: CESEE, feminist networking, interwar period (1923-1939), the Little Entente of Women (LEW), women’s movements. |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/kardum_marijana.pdf |
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