Austrian women's associations in the educational press of the dualism era

Abstract

In the present paper, Austrian women's associations and associations will be reviewed in the spirit of women's emancipation. During this period, many women's societies, associations, foundations and clubs were established in the territory of the Monarchy, with a very wide range of goals. In my study, I present the main Austrian women's societies in the light of the Austrian pedagogical journals of the dualism era, in the period from 1889 to 1910. In the research, I looked for the answer to the question: how often and from what perspective did the journalists and educational specialists of the time write about the necessity and usefulness of women's associations in the various pedagogical magazines? What concerned writers, teachers, and readers in relation to the activities of women's associations at the time? In the course of the research, I examined 3177 coded units of four types of Austrian educational newspapers from the era of dualism (Österreichische Lehrerinnen-Zeitung; Der Lehrerinnen-Wart and its successors: Neuzeit, Frauenleben, Neues Frauenleben; Frauen-Werke; Mittheilungen des Vereines der Lehrerinnen und Erzieherinnen in Österreich) and processed it using the method of semantic content analysis, including naming analysis.