Publications of Pető, A.

Rosi Braidotti (DVD)

This is a 110-minute video portrait interview of Rosi Braidotti covering family background, milestone events, key concepts, life, work, philosophy and more… Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for Humanities at Utrecht University. Her work is exceptionally significant in the areas of feminist philosophy, epistemology, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis.

Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context

The articles in this book share a dedication to broadening and stretching the scholarly field of feminist citizenship studies and invite the reader to reflect on the many different ways citizenship is formed in contemporary Europe. They do so by stretching the concept of citizenship itself, going beyond legalistic definitions, and by asking new questions about the ways in which citizenship is constructed, the entitlements to benefits, and to social and political participation, how cultures of knowledge allow participation and how inclusion and exclusion can be represented. In all cases «gender» is one of the categories that allow a deeper insight and a better perception of the way the ideals of citizenship have helped people to overcome exclusion. As the articles show, access to citizenship differs from context to context. Citizenship is never only a legal status: it has to do with cultural diversity, with recognition of difference, with access to professions and hierarchies on the labour market, not least in universities with traditions in political as well as visual representation. The collection is an introduction to new research in the field of European gender studies.

The State of Women's and Gender History in Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary

This article presents an exploration into state of gender and women's history studies in Eastern Europe. The case example of Hungary is given, where strong institutional resistance and lack of leadership prevents the full exploration into the relatively new field of gender studies. Prevalent resistant attitudes of mainstream historiography in Hungary and Eastern Europe are described and criticized. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Book Review: Bögre Zsuzsanna: Vallásosság és identitás. Élettörténetek a diktatúrában (1948-1964)

Bögre Zsuzsanna: Vallásosság és identitás. Élettörténetek a diktatúrában (1948–1964). Studia Sociologica, Dialóg Campus Kiadó, Budapest–Pécs, 2005. 200 p.

Women and 'the alternative public sphere': toward a new definition of women's activism and the separate spheres in East-Central Europe

In the years following the end of the cold war in 1989, Western feminist scholars and activists expressed disappointment in the failure of the newly democratic Eastern and Central European countries to sustain mainstream women's rights movements and achieve a marked increase in women's participation within the new political parties and political life in general. The authors, historians of Hungarian women's movements with a broad East-West perspective, offer a novel explanation for this phenomenon. Following an outline of the main stages of Hungarian women's movements and women's political participation, they focus on two instances in twentieth-century Hungarian history that resulted in a rapid transition from anti-democratic regimes to liberal, parliamentary systems: the 1918 bourgeois democratic revolution and the 1990 re-introduction of free parliamentary elections. Examining these two turning points in recent Hungarian history, separated by 70 years, as case studies of women's activism, the authors propose a new, critical re-evaluation of the notion of separate spheres, offering a timely if co-incidental comment on the recent debate in the Journal of Women's History . 2 Research for this article had been completed by the time of the publication of the Spring 2003 issue of the Journal of Women's History, 15 (1), devoted to 'Rethinking Public and Private'. (Author) (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Feminizmus és történelem

Large numbers of women in Europe undertake Women's Studies training, but we have no systematic data on the impact of that training on their subsequent employment and quality of life.The project as an EC 5th Framework Project therefore seeks to analyse how Women’s Studies training affects women’s opportunities and interventions in the labour market.Since Women’s Studies training differs greatly between countries, a further objective is to examine how these differences relate to individual women's subsequent employment achievements, including changes in the balance between family and work, and changing and managing relationshipswithin the family.As women's employment opportunities vary greatly betweenpartner countries we need to understand what women, once trained in Women’s Studies, do given the structuring of their employment opportunities.F inally,we intend to analyse the impactWomen’s Studies training has on the changes women seek to generate in the workplace, and how it impacts on women's professional and other duties are undertaken in the workplace.