Emancipationists from Lviv and the Czech women’s movement at the end  of the 19th century – the example of the periodical Ster [Helm] edited by Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit (1895–1897) Cover Image

Lvovské emancipantky ve srovnání s českým ženským hnutím na sklonku 19. století. Na příkladu časopisu „Ster“ („Kormidlo“), za redakce Pauliny Kuczalské-Reinschmit (1895–1897)
Emancipationists from Lviv and the Czech women’s movement at the end of the 19th century – the example of the periodical Ster [Helm] edited by Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit (1895–1897)

Author(s): Agata Zawiszewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Modernizm; emancipatory journalism; Polish women’s movement of the 19th century; Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit

Summary/Abstract: Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit (1859-1921) was the leader of the Polish emancipatory movement at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. She was active mainly on the territory under Russian rule but in the mid-1890’s she stayed in the Austrian partition. Although her programme of struggle for educational, professional and political emancipation of Polish women was rooted in national sources she also reached for foreign, among others Czech, inspirations to implement this programme. The Czech influence is visible in the cristalisation phase of the programme in the 1890s when Kuczalska-Reinschmit edited her own feminist periodical Ster. The Lviv edition of the latter issued in the period of 1895–1897 (Warsaw edition appeared in the years 1907–1914) was an organ of emancipationists and the supporters of educational emancipation for women in Galicia. It was published until the enrollment of first women students at the Jagiellonian University. During the campaign for the establishment of the first private gymnasium with the maturity exam for women in Kraków allowing them access to university education, Ster modeled its programme on the Minerva society created in Prague in 1890 by Eliza Krasnohorska. It also referred to the first private gymnasium for women in Czechoslovakia which the society had established.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 193-211
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Czech
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