Women In Austria Research Articles

Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history.

Hospitalization of young women after selected cardiovascular and thromboembolic incidents in Austria 1993 and 1994

The aim of this study is to describe the hospitalization and regional distribution of selected cardiovascular and thrombo-embolic events (cardiac infarction, cerebral strokes, deep vein thromboses, pulmonary embolism) of young women in Austria in the years 1993 and 1994, and to collect basic epidemiologic data for the study of the side effects of oral contraceptives. The calculated hospitalization rates are based on the Austrian hospitals' discharge records of 1993 and 1994. The persons concerned are women aged between 15 and 44 who live in Austria. The results of the study reveal that--in 1993--of the above mentioned group 51 out of 100,000 inhabitants were hospitalized because of the selected cardiovascular and thromboembolic events: 4/100,000 had a cardiac infarction, 5/100,000 had a stroke, 17/100,000 had a pulmonary embolism, and 27/100,000 suffered a deep vein thrombosis. In 1994 the counted cases per 100,000 inhabitants were 48, out of which 4/100,000 where cardiac infarcts, 5/100,000 strokes, 16/100,000 pulmonary embolism, and 25/100,000 deep vein thromboses.

Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Acknowledgements Chapter 1. A Latecomer in War: The Case of Italy G. Procacci Chapter 2. The Political Police, War, and Society in Russia, 1914-1917 F. Zuckerman Chapter 3. All Quiet on the Homefront: Popular Entertainments, Censorship and Civilian Morale in Germany, 1914-1918 G. Stark Chapter 4. Restoring Moral Order on the Home Front: Compulsory Savings Plans for Young Workers in Germany, 1916-1919 E. Rosenhaft Chapter 5. French Catholics, Rumeurs infames and the Union Sacree, 1914-1918 J. F. McMillan Chapter 6. Nationalism in Wartime: Critiquing the Conventional Wisdom L. L. Farrar Chapter 7. Love and Death: War and Gender in Britain, 1914-1918 S. Kingsley Kent Chapter 8. Italian Widows of the First World War F. Lagorio Chapter 9. For the Fatherland and Jewish People: Jewish Women in Austria during World War I M. Rozenblit Chapter 10. Soldiers, Civilians, and the Warfare of Attrition: Representations of Combat in France, 1914-1918 J. Horne Chapter 11. Masculinity, Memory, and the French World War I Novel: Henri Barbusse and Roland Dorgeles L. V. Smith Chapter 12. Russian General Staff Training and the Approach of War J. Steinberg Chapter 13. Knights of the Sky: The Rise of Military Aviation J. H. Morrow, Jr. Chapter 14. Communities in Mourning J. M. Winter Notes on contributors Bibliography Index