{"id":513,"date":"2020-09-04T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:38:36","slug":"11-escape-the-corset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/jewish-perspectives-on-the-crises-of-an-idea\/11-escape-the-corset\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape the Corset!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Installation Escape the Corset!. Photo: Dietmar Walser<\/p><\/div>\r\n

While in the wake of the French Revolution, equality for male citizens was met in Europe with acceptance, the emancipation of women had not been among the goals of those championing liberty, equality, and fraternity. Only around 1900, an international feminist movement began to emerge.<\/p>\r\n

^ R\u00f3zsika Schwimmer, Budapest 1913, \u00a9 Carrie Chapman Catt Albums. Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections<\/span><\/em><\/div>\r\n

< Stamp on the occasion of the 1913 Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Budapest, \u00a9 Jewish Museum Hohenems<\/em> > Promotion of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s \u201cfamily protection action plan,\u201d 2019, \u00a9 G\u00e1bor Ligeti<\/em><\/p>\r\n

In 1912, Schwimmer wrote: \u201cAlthough as wife, the Hungarian woman is in a much more advantageous position than the German, English, Dutch, etc., the mother in Hungary is subjected to the same laws of illogic, injustice, and cruelty that govern almost all of human society. Poetry and prose exalt motherhood, depict her as a type of earth mother. Yet, outside of these lofty regions, the mother, married or unmarried, is the carrier of the crown of thorns.\u201d More than one hundred years later, her analysis is once again applicable. Following revolution and counterrevolution, Hungary is once more characterized by emigration and sealing-off against anything \u201calien\u201d as well as by the dismantlement of democracy. In the spring of 2019, Viktor Orb\u00e1n initiated a new family policy to combat the low birthrate: young Hungarian married women with several children would receive generous financial support. \u201cFamily policy\u201d is intended to ward off the supposedly impending \u00dcberfremdung\u00a0<\/em>(excessive influx of foreigners). However, in the course of the campaign, the government had committed an embarrassing blunder:\u00a0 already long before this family-planning campaign, the \u201ccouple\u201d depicted on an agency\u2019s stock photograph had been circulating the internet in other versions under the slogan \u201cdistracted boyfriend\u201d as a so-called \u201cmeme\u201d to illustrate infidelity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Andrea Pet\u00f6 (Vienna) about women’s rights, gender studies and Corona:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n