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Book Series: Women and Minorities Archives

Volume 1

Kristina Popova, Marijana Piskova, Margareth Lanzinger, Nikola Langreiter, Petar Vodenicharov (eds.)

Women and Minorities: Ways of Archiving

Sofia-Vienna

2009


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Editors: ©Kristina Popova, Marijana Piskova, Margareth Lanzinger, Nikola Langreiter, Petar Vodenicharov

Proofreading: Petar Vodenicharov

Design: Nurie Muratova

SEMARSh, Sofia, 2009

ISBN 978-954-9590-03-6

This publication was supported by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office


CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 7

"For Women, the Act of Writing _ whether Letters or Diaries _ Expresses their

Identity, their Life's Ambition, the Will to Survive"

Interview with Edith Saurer 16

WOMEN'S MEMORIES

Decisions and Chances _ the Winding Path of Women's Personal Testimonies.

The Collection of Women's Estates / Frauennachlässe, Vienna

Li Gerhalter 20

The Diary of Wetti Teuschl: An Instrument for Remembering? _ An Instrument

for Forgetting?

Nikola Langreiter 35

The Subjective Experiences of Autobiography and Biography as Modeled by

a Bulgarian Family of Public Servants

Mari A. Firkatian 53

Women's Memoirs in the Collection of Documents about the "Narratives

of Popular Memory" Campaign (1983-1989), Public Archive, Blagoevgrad

Milena Angelova 63

Women's Historical Archive Bolzano / Bozen _ Italy

Renate Telser 69

STICHWORT _ a Feminist Archive and Library in Vienna

Margit Hauser 75

WOMEN & MINORITIES ARCHIVES

A Quest for Jewish Identity: Personal Memory and Collective Forgetting

Daniela Koleva 85

The Muslim Roma _ an "Inconvenient" for the Communist Regime Minority

Anastasya Pashova 94


"Best of All Women. Female Dimensions in Judaism". An Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna

Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz and Wiebke Krohn 114

Muslim Women and the Women's Movement in Bulgaria (1940s _ 1960s):

Archive Documentation and Historical Problems

Georgeta Nazarska 123

WOMEN IN STATE POLITICS

Dimensions of the Women's Voices. Following on the Documentary tracks of the First Women's Participation in Elections in Bulgaria (1937_1939)

Nurie Muratova and Kristina Popova 133

Documenting Women's Suffrage in Romania. The Achievement of Female Suffrage in Romania _ a Historical Overview

Roxana Cheschebek 156

The Johanna Dohnal Archive

Maria Steiner 170

The Yugoslav Women in Politics and Society between the Two World Wars: The Digital Collection of the Daily Newspaper Politika

Slobodan Mandich and Jovana Pavlovich174

Gender Analysis of the Bulgarian Guerilla Fighters and the Members of the "Unions of the Fighters against Fascism". Autobiographical discourses

Petar Vodenicharov and Milena Angelova 181

WOMEN AND FAMILY, WOMEN AND SOCIETY

Negotiating Marriage Contracts. Legal Records as Source Materials for Gender History

Margareth Lanzinger 189

"There were not any Divorces at All" The Semi- Truth about the Divorces in the Nevrokop Eparchy (1894_1912)

Anastasya Pashova 204


The Association of the University Educated Women in yugoslavia 1927-1941

Slobodan Mandich and Jovana Pavlovich 227

POLITICS OF ARCHIVING

Memory Prescriptions: Archival Policies in the Second Half of the 20th century

Mariana Piskova 234

Women in Macedonia throughout Documentation

Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska 247

Women and Minority Documentation and Digital Presentation. The Serbian Case

Slobodan Mandich and Jovana Pavlovich 258

DIGITAL WOMEN ARCHIVES AND PRESENTATIONS

New Frames. muSIEum _ Displaying Gender

Regina Wonisch 263

Ariadne _ A Knowledge Portal and Virtual Library for Literature and Information Sources in Women's and Gender Studies

Lydia Jammernegg 275

The First Web Catalogue of Women and Minority Archive Fonds in Bulgaria

Nurie Muratova 287

AUTHORS 292

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