Why hasn't there been a strong women's movement in Hungary?
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There has been little feminist activism in Hungary to counter the erosion of women's rights. This is explained in terms of the atomized nature of Hungarian society in which most citizens prefer privacy to associating with others and the weakening of the Hungarian women's movement by dissension between bourgeois and socialist feminists. Most Hungarians limit women to domestic and maternal roles and view feminism as a corrupt and unnatural western movement. Despite this, feminism is slowly taking root in Hungary in the 1990s in the form of women's organizations, campaigns and conferences.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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Changing world-views in Hungary, 1945-1980
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The period between 1945 and 1990 in Hungary is distinguishable into three sub-periods with three corresponding world-views. The world-view of the 1950s was revolutionary, future-oriented, optimistic. It emphasized polarities, linear development, and determinism. The 1960s stressed organic evolution, reformism, and respect for the common man. In the 1970s and 1980s the concept of progress was discredited, and individualism, relativism, and the principle of pluralism emerged. The period ended in a social, economic, and cultural crisis which led to the rehabilitation of individuality.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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Introduction
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Hungarians are unable to define what it means to be Hungarian after 40 years of communist rule. They can answer this question only with riddles and jokes. Their uncertainty about the essence of Hungary's national identity can be explained in terms of its discontinuous history and its lack of an indigenous public culture in the period from 1950 to 1995. In the same period, Hungarians found it problematic to judge what is true. As a result, they distrusted the public world, withdrew into the world of the family, and adopted an indirect style of speaking and writing.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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