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The following article focuses on the issue of the militant feminist group Red Zora. Red Zora made their first appearance in 1973 and the last one in 1995. This group attacked predominantly patriarchal institutes, companies, and persons representing and building up a male sexist society, which is seen by the radical feminist group as an oppression and exploitation women worldwide. They have conducted campaigns against porn traders, sex shops, international traders of women etc. The goal of this paper is to explain actions of Red Zora by using the perspective of feminism. Concrete theories of feminism which were used were radical and marxist types of feminism.
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20 August 1967, Constitution Day, the village of D., Pest County.
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András Visky: Hosszú péntek (Long Friday) • Chekhov: Uncle Vanya • Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
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Like anyone trying to write about the 1956 uprising in Hungary, I was faced from the start with the fact that the main, albeit not exclusive set of events took place during an extremely short period, from 23 October to 4 November that year—a period of less than two weeks, during which the situation changed literally day by day, sometimes even hour by hour. Documentation about that dramatic period is available in the form, for example, of surviving newspapers and transcripts of radio broadcasts, but the journalists who were writing those pages of history, so to say, inevitably had a limited perspective due to the rapidly changing nature of the events and to the physical limitations preventing them from being at all the places where something significant was happening, particularly during the periods of heavy fighting. It is not surprising therefore that accounts of 1956 rely heavily on a wide variety of other sources, notably the various published memoirs of participants, plus the many recorded oral history interviews made with people over the past 20–25 years.[...]
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Twelve Original Photographs by Roger Fenton. University Library of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 19 November 2008–31 January 2009 Drawing Class on the Roof. Budapest Schools in the Photographs of Mór Erdélyi. Kiscell Museum, Budapest, 24 April 2008–10 August 2008.
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A mid the gradual modernisation of post-1867 Hungarian society, the aristocracy was considered to be the closest embodiment of the “historical”, being seen (by the lower and rising middle classes, and even the aristocracy itself) as a social stratum which owed its continued existence to a system of traditions and privileges dating back to the Middle Ages. Bearing one of the titles of the higher nobility was, originally, the sine qua non condition of being a member of the aristocracy. (In Hungary, as in most other countries of Europe, differentiations of status were developed over the centuries according to a ranking system.) There were three traditional aristocratic titles. The most junior in respect of the prestige and influence that went with it was that of baron. This was followed by count; and prince ranked the highest. From time to time, the use of a foreign aristocratic title was allowed in Hungary, as in the case of the Pallavicini family, who were marquesses. The title of archduke was reserved for members of the ruling Habsburg-Lotharingian dynasty. There were three main ways of becoming a member of the Hungarian aristocracy. The primary way was through heredity: a peerage awarded one’s ancestor by a King of Hungary was inherited by all descendants.[...]
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Letters of Ted Hughes, Selected and edited by Christopher Reid, London, Faber and Faber, 2007, 756 pp. Ted Hughes: Selected Translations, edited by Daniel Weissbort, London, Faber and Faber, 2006, 232 pp.
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“… for there is scarcely a European country in which the Anglomania rages more fiercely than in that slighted land. […] there is scarcely an event of English life, a folly of London fashion, or an invention of British industry, which does not find admirers and commentators and imitators, among the Hungarians of respectable degree,” declared Catherine Grace Frances Gore, an English writer in one of the stories set in Hungary that she published in 1829, at the very beginning of what that country calls its Reform Age. It was indeed true that a growing interest in English culture, economic progress, technological innovations and political institutions was manifest among the élite of Hungarian society roughly from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards. For the Liberals of the Reform Age, in no small measure due to the example set by Count István Széchenyi, a grand tour of Europe’s developed countries—above all England—was considered almost mandatory. These tours provided an inexhaustible fund of personal experiences and the received cultural impressions were integrated into plans about how social betterment and progress could be achieved in Hungary.[...]
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Hoˆtel du Nord. The Unknown Photography of Alexandre Trauner. Exhibition at the Miskolc Municipal Gallery, 4 September–4 October 2008 Vintage Gallery, Budapest,14 October–7 November, 2008 Paris Photo, Paris, 13 November–16 November 2008.
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