A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering
A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering
Author(s): Andrea PetőSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Gender history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Hungary; communism; political history; communist women; political memoirs; communist nomenklatura; political power;
Summary/Abstract: Very few Hungarian communist women were as self-conscious as Mariska Gardos (1885-1973 ), the prominent trade-union activist, who at the celebration of her birthday, surprised her assembled students and friends saying: "Today, at seventy three, I must process my recollection according to my three-year plan." Writing lengthy political memoirs requires a conscious author remembering her role as a witness to events. It is also a requirement that these events were labeled as historically important. Or it requires a woman who worked in a key nomenklatura position, if possible with very prominent men. It is a truism by now that women during "statist feminism" were denied positions with real political power. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 16/2002
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 948-957
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
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