“Women in the 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution” is written by Robert Nemes. The thesis of this article is: Six weeks after the outbreak of revolution in Hungary, a remarkable document appeared in a patriotic Hungarian language newspaper, Pesti Divatlvap. Entitled “Demands of the Radical Hungarian Women,” this twenty-four petition boldly asserted women’s right to take part in public life and underlined their importance to the revolutionary cause.
The author uses these main points to support his thesis. As said in the thesis, Nemes goes on to explain the demands of the Hungarian women, the twenty four demands are listed and explained in a very detailed way in the second half of the article. Also, the article explains how the twenty four points were indispensable for a positive result in women’s interests all around the world.
Another point that the author, Robert Nemes, uses to support his thesis is the education situation in Germany. One of the most important issues for women was education; women were not allowed in Universities. Nemes claims that the discussions about this topic resulted in the need for a teacher-training institute for women. Nemes introduces Andras Fay and tells us that he was an advocate for education for women but that he “sought to keep women out of the expanding public sphere”. This tells us that even people that supported women were skeptical about letting them take control of their own lives, which puts Hungarians in a very difficult situation.
“German Women and the Revolution of 1848” is written by Stanley Zucker. The thesis of this article is: Women’s role in Germany, the Humania association with Kathinka Zitz as the leader was not publically an advocate to women being more than just housewives. But Zitz i...
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...n and what they did for German women. Another weakness is that the German article fails to provide with facts supported by real life resources. Overall, these two articles made their point, and the authors had strong arguments. These two articles don’t have many weaknesses.
In conclusion, these two articles were very well written and can help the reader understand about the women revolutions of 1848. Women were very tired of being categorized as useless people. Eventually, they rose up and wrote demands in Hungary, and in Germany, Zitz’s leadership led the women to a better place than they were before. Essentially, these articles explain the situation in each country as Nemes and Zucker demonstrate how women got their place by exposing their thoughts and researching facts of history. All in all, these articles contribute to an understanding of the 1848 Revolutions.
The next text analyzed for this study is the first monograph read for the study, therefore, there is a lot of information that had not been previously discussed by the latter authors: Claudia Koonz 's 1987 text Mothers in the Fatherland. The author begins her text with a Preface where she discusses her interview with Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, the leader of the Women 's Labor Service. While this is not the first time in the study that Scholtz-Klink 's name appears, but Koonz 's discussion of the interview personifies Scholtz-Klink, rather than just make her a two-dimensional character in historical research. For the first time in this study, the reader can understand the reasoning some people (right or wrong) sided with the Nazi Party. The interview
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From 1750 to 1914, the role of women in Western Europe and Eastern Asia gradually changed as a result of industrialization, political revolutions, and European imperialism. The role of women in these two regions were parallel in that the women faced similar hardships in the labor force and women displayed political power by taking part in rebellions and fighting for civil rights. Yet, the women of Eastern Asia had greater access to education and made up an immense portion of the work force
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One argument in favour of women shows pictures of what men could be: A convict, lunatic, owner of white slaves, unfit for service and a drunkard. This portrayed men as being responsible, but they still could vote. Then it shows what women could achieve: Mayor, nurse, mother doctor or teacher or a factory hand, which showed them as responsible but they still couldn't the vote.1 Men's attitude towards women during the First World War was still negative. The ability of women to take on the roles of men meant that increasing numbers of men were vulnerable to conscription.2 The women were told that they couldn't vote because they weren't fighting for their country. They couldn't fight because they weren't allowed to.
The book became a great source of information for me, which explained the difficulties faced by women of the mentioned period. The author succeeded to convince me that today it is important to remember the ones who managed to change the course of history. Contemporary women should be thankful to the processes, which took place starting from the nineteenth century. Personally, I am the one believing that society should live in terms of equality. It is not fair and inhuman to create barriers to any of the social members.
During the nineteenth century, Chopin’s era, women were not allowed to vote, attend school or even hold some jobs. A woman’s role was to get married, have children
In this essay I will look at the film and the narrative techniques it uses, probing whether it portrays the East German nation as positive or negative, concluding that though many negatives are identified, some positives are deduced from Honecker's state. I will also consider why, in recent times, East Germans have come to regard their former state with nostalgia, or as the Germans would put it, nostalgia, an act of Goodbye Lenin! (2003) explores the. Not a doom laden, emphatically political treatise on the reunification of East and West Germany but a touching and sometimes comedic insight into the gargantuan changes impacting on the small scale, day to day life as experienced by an East German family, Christiane Kerner and her two children Alex and Ariane. Awaking from a coma, Alex fears his mother?s condition may worsen if she learns of re-unification, going to increasingly elaborate lengths in maintaining the illusion of the GDR?s omniscience.
The role of women has changed significantly throughout history, driven by women who took risks in setting examples for others to follow. Henrik Isben, author of A Doll's House, said “ A woman cannot be herself in society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view” (Innes 147). This proves that Isben was aware of male dominance in society during that time period. In his drama, “A Doll's House,” it deals with gender favoritism and male dominance.