“Our Little World” – Visual Representation of Women in the Interwar Transylvania’s Catholic
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„A mi kis világunk” – a kisebbségi nőiség vizuális reprezentációja a két világháború közötti erdélyi magyar keresztény sajtóban
“Our Little World” – Visual Representation of Women in the Interwar Transylvania’s Catholic Press

Author(s): Zsuzsa Bokor
Subject(s): Media studies, Photography, Theory of Communication
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: Hungarian minority; women; women’s associations; interwar period; photographs; gender; ethnicity;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the visual materials of an interwar Hungarian monthly magazine, the Harangszó (Bell Gong) thataddressed mainly the catholic Hungarian women with peasant background. Piecing together photographs and relatednarratives of this women’s magazine, the article off ers a short insight into the interwar social history and identity constructionsof the Transylvanian Hungarian minority. My aim is to identify diff erent types of visual representations of the contemporarywomen, highlighting two major directions of these representations in relation to identity formation. On the one hand thisweekly supported the community level identity processes characteristic to the interwar period; on the other hand the samevisual materials contested some core aspects this process.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 69-88
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Hungarian