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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2011

Carola Sachse  and
Atina Grossmann
Carola Sachse
Affiliation:
Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Atina Grossmann
Affiliation:
Cooper Union, New York
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Human Rights, Utopias, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Europe
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Central European History , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 1 - 12
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2 Klinger, Cornelia, Kämper, Gabriele, and Sachse, Carola, “Im Gespräch mit … Cornelia Klinger,” Feministische Studien 27, no. 2 (2009): 258–267Google Scholar. See the issue for papers from the Vienna conference focused on visions of “utopia.”

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12 Remarkably, the first studies in this context deal with communist women or with women in “state socialist” societies. See, for example, de Haan, Francisca, “Hoffnungen auf eine bessere Welt. Die frühen Jahre der Internationalen Demokratischen Frauenföderation (IDFF/WIDF) (1945–1950),” Feministische Studien 27, no. 2 (2009): 241–257Google Scholar; and Popa, “Translating Equality,” or Zinsser, “From Mexico to Copenhagen to Nairobi.” For the nineteenth century, see, for example, Gerhard, Ute, Verhältnisse und Verhinderungen. Frauenarbeit, Familie und Rechte der Frauen im 19. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978)Google Scholar; and Gerhard, Ute et al. , eds., Differenz und Gleichheit. Menschenrechte haben (k)ein Geschlecht (Frankfurt am Main: Helmer, 1990)Google Scholar; as well as Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, and Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution.

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19 Mazower, “Strange Triumph,” 393.

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21 Mazower, “Strange Triumph,” 394–397.

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