Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part I
• Constructing Gender in Vienna and Beyond

• Chapter 1
• Ethnic and Sexual Tension in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Case of Mistaken Identity in Grete Meisel-Hess's ôZwei vergnügte Tageö
• p. 17

• Chapter 2
• Public Debates and Private Jokes in Gustav Klimt's The Kiss: Effeminate Aestheticism, Virile Masculinity, or Both?
• p. 29

• Chapter 3
• Modernity and Masculinity: Cycling in Hungary at the End of the 19 th Century
• p. 47

• Chapter 4
• Czech Mates: Locating and Gendering the Competing Habsburgian Presences at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
• p. 65

• Part II
• The Impact of Viennese Modernity in Literature

• Chapter 5
• Svevo's Uomo Senza Qualitá: Musil and Modernism in Italy
• p. 83

• Chapter 6
• ôEverything the Same as Hereö: Misogyny in Czech Modernist Poetry at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century
• p. 103

• Part III
• The Contribution of Jewish Women to Viennese Modernity

• Chapter 7
• The Jewish Salons of Vienna
• p. 119

• Chapter 8
• ôIf a Woman Should Be True to Her Natural Destiny, She Ought Not to Compete with Menö: Jewish Intellectual Women between Anti-Semitism and Misogyny in Fin-de-Siécle Vienna
• p. 133

• Part IV
• Early Psychoanalysis and Its Legacy

• Chapter 9
• Woman as Theory and Theory-Maker in the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
• p. 153

• Chapter 10
• Metapsychological Mythopoiesis: On Sándor Ferenczi's Theory of Sexual Difference and the Agonic Conception of Life
• p. 169

• Chapter 11
• Gender, Hysteria, and War Neurosis
• p. 185

• Part V
• The Historical and Cultural Legacy of Austria-Hungary

• Chapter 12
• The Internment of Political Suspects in Austria-Hungary during the First World War: A Violent Legacy?
• p. 203

• Chapter 13
• Engendering Borders: The Austro-Yugoslav Border Conflict following the First World War
• p. 219

• Chapter 14
• From ôGuardian Angel of Hungaryö to theôSissi Look-Alike Contestö: The Making and Remaking of the Cult of Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary
• p. 235

• Works Cited, by Chapter
• p. 251

• Contributors
• p. 289

• Index
• p. 293