Autorentext

Marta Verginella is a full professor at the Department of History at the University of Ljubljana and was the project leader of the ERC project "EIRENE: Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of North-Eastern Adriatic Region". Urska Strle was a full-time member of the EIRENE research group. She currently works at the Koper Scientific Research Centre as the researcher for the ERC project OPEN BORDERS, and at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Klappentext

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial focus of the analysis is the northeastern Adriatic region, which includes the border areas of Italy and Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. The study is one of the results of an international research project carried out with the support of the European Research Council.

The seven studies in the book represent a cross-section of specific professional groups of women. The spectrum ranges from female teachers, clerks, tobacco and textile workers to intellectual, artistic or entrepreneurial activities of women. Although "gender" is a central category of analysis in the book, the aspect of representativeness was also observed in relation to other social factors such as race, class, generations, educational and religious background, etc. The main question of the study was the extent to which new state affiliations, geopolitical boundaries, and the establishment of new political regimes affected the women's labor market in the three postwar constellations.

Inhalt

A Note on Toponymy, List of Abbreviations, List of Figures and Tables, Introduction Women's Labor in the North-Eastern Adriatic during the Postwar Transitions of the 20th Century - Marta Verginella, PART I: PEDAGOGICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LABOR Female Teachers-The Ferrywomen of Transitional Education - Marta Verginella The Working Conditions of Female Teachers in the Slovene Schools in Trieste and Gorizia in the First Years of the Allied Military Government - Gorazd Bajc Women Clerks in Transition after World War I in the Kingdom of Italy and Yugoslavia: Two Case Studies from Trieste and Ljubljana - Ana Cergol Paradi., Matteo Perissinotto, and Irena Seli.nik, PART II: INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC LABOR Intellectual Labor: Gender, Emotions, and Circumstances during the Postwar Transitions - Manca G. Renko A Soul with Hands: Anita Pittoni, Artist and Entrepreneur - Teresa Bertilotti ,PART III: INDUSTRIAL LABOR Tobacco Workers between Marginalization and Opportunities: A Regional Perspective - Urska Strle and Dagmar Wernitznig Slovene Female Textile Workers and Their Alternative Employment: A Case Study in Komen - Petra Testen Koren, Bibliography, Chapter Abstracts, List of Contributors, Index