Eszter Varsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5820535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eszter Varsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eszter |
| FAMILY NAME | Varsa |
| SIGNATURE | VARSA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9573-7202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“No One Has Raised Their Voice in Support of the Gypsy, Who Works Honestly”
This article focuses on the labour activist biography of Mária László (1909–89), the first secretary general of the Cultural Association of Gypsies in Hungary (1957–61). It addresses silences in László’s activist history and examines two of her core labour agendas in the 1950s: creating employment opportunities for Roma and combating racial discrimination. Employing an intersectional perspective that considers gender, class and race/ethnicity, an…
Introduction
The Women of Viharsarok
This article explores peasant women’s labour activism in 1890s Hungary, in the southeastern part of the Habsburg Empire, where repeated harvesters’ strikes and peasant uprisings took place during the second half of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries, making it the first centre of agrarian workers’ socialist organizing in Hungary. Informed by a more inclusive approach to women’s activist histories and subaltern studies, th…
“The rulers are the causes of the war […] They are the reason there is no bread in our town
The essay discusses women's food riots in the Hungarian territories of the Habsburg Empire during World War I between spring 1917 and summer 1918. While the existing literature has primarily focused on urban contexts in a variety of European countries, this essay analyses the Hungarian countryside with a focus on small towns and villages where and around which inhabitants were mostly agrarian workers. The agrarian population was especially hard h…
Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century
New eugenics,’ gender and sexuality
The article addresses reproductive politics and sex education in Cold War Europe in light of novel historical research. Integrating sex education into reproductive politics it delineates four hitherto little discussed conceptual and topical areas in the field, and points to possibilities for further research. Most importantly, the article places the globalized character of post-World War II reproductive politics at the center of historical invest…
Sex advice East and West
This article contributes to literature discussing the reemergence of eugenics in post-World War II reproductive and population political contexts by comparing Austrian and Hungarian publications on sex education and family planning between the 1950s and the 1980s. It presents neo-Malthusian ‘population preservation’ in Austria and anti-Malthusian pronatalism in Hungary as affected by and negotiated through the Cold War divide in global population…
The Minor Would Hinder the Mother in Finding Employment
This article discusses the role of child protection and residential care institutions in mediating the tension between women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities in early state socialist Hungary. At a time when increasing numbers of women entered paid work in the framework of catch-up industrialization but the socialization of care work was inadequate, these institutions substituted for missing public child care services. Relying on not…
The (final) solution of the Gypsy-question
Although the repression and elimination of Roma from Hungarian society in the 1940s did not reach the same extent as in the German and Austrian part of the Third Reich, their characterization as lazy and work-shy, used to justify their persecution, was similar. This paper establishes the presence of racial hygienic discourse related to Roma during the late 1930s and the first half of the 1940s in Hungary, and traces its survival and influence on …
New eugenics,’ gender and sexuality
The article addresses reproductive politics and sex education in Cold War Europe in light of novel historical research. Integrating sex education into reproductive politics it delineates four hitherto little discussed conceptual and topical areas in the field, and points to possibilities for further research. Most importantly, the article places the globalized character of post-World War II reproductive politics at the center of historical invest…
Sex advice East and West
This article contributes to literature discussing the reemergence of eugenics in post-World War II reproductive and population political contexts by comparing Austrian and Hungarian publications on sex education and family planning between the 1950s and the 1980s. It presents neo-Malthusian ‘population preservation’ in Austria and anti-Malthusian pronatalism in Hungary as affected by and negotiated through the Cold War divide in global population…
The Minor Would Hinder the Mother in Finding Employment
This article discusses the role of child protection and residential care institutions in mediating the tension between women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities in early state socialist Hungary. At a time when increasing numbers of women entered paid work in the framework of catch-up industrialization but the socialization of care work was inadequate, these institutions substituted for missing public child care services. Relying on not…
The (final) solution of the Gypsy-question
Although the repression and elimination of Roma from Hungarian society in the 1940s did not reach the same extent as in the German and Austrian part of the Third Reich, their characterization as lazy and work-shy, used to justify their persecution, was similar. This paper establishes the presence of racial hygienic discourse related to Roma during the late 1930s and the first half of the 1940s in Hungary, and traces its survival and influence on …
The Minor Would Hinder the Mother in Finding Employment
This article discusses the role of child protection and residential care institutions in mediating the tension between women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities in early state socialist Hungary. At a time when increasing numbers of women entered paid work in the framework of catch-up industrialization but the socialization of care work was inadequate, these institutions substituted for missing public child care services. Relying on not…
The (final) solution of the Gypsy-question
Although the repression and elimination of Roma from Hungarian society in the 1940s did not reach the same extent as in the German and Austrian part of the Third Reich, their characterization as lazy and work-shy, used to justify their persecution, was similar. This paper establishes the presence of racial hygienic discourse related to Roma during the late 1930s and the first half of the 1940s in Hungary, and traces its survival and influence on …
New eugenics,’ gender and sexuality
The article addresses reproductive politics and sex education in Cold War Europe in light of novel historical research. Integrating sex education into reproductive politics it delineates four hitherto little discussed conceptual and topical areas in the field, and points to possibilities for further research. Most importantly, the article places the globalized character of post-World War II reproductive politics at the center of historical invest…
Sex advice East and West
This article contributes to literature discussing the reemergence of eugenics in post-World War II reproductive and population political contexts by comparing Austrian and Hungarian publications on sex education and family planning between the 1950s and the 1980s. It presents neo-Malthusian ‘population preservation’ in Austria and anti-Malthusian pronatalism in Hungary as affected by and negotiated through the Cold War divide in global population…
“The rulers are the causes of the war […] They are the reason there is no bread in our town
The essay discusses women's food riots in the Hungarian territories of the Habsburg Empire during World War I between spring 1917 and summer 1918. While the existing literature has primarily focused on urban contexts in a variety of European countries, this essay analyses the Hungarian countryside with a focus on small towns and villages where and around which inhabitants were mostly agrarian workers. The agrarian population was especially hard h…
Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century
The Women of Viharsarok
This article explores peasant women’s labour activism in 1890s Hungary, in the southeastern part of the Habsburg Empire, where repeated harvesters’ strikes and peasant uprisings took place during the second half of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries, making it the first centre of agrarian workers’ socialist organizing in Hungary. Informed by a more inclusive approach to women’s activist histories and subaltern studies, th…
“No One Has Raised Their Voice in Support of the Gypsy, Who Works Honestly”
This article focuses on the labour activist biography of Mária László (1909–89), the first secretary general of the Cultural Association of Gypsies in Hungary (1957–61). It addresses silences in László’s activist history and examines two of her core labour agendas in the 1950s: creating employment opportunities for Roma and combating racial discrimination. Employing an intersectional perspective that considers gender, class and race/ethnicity, an…
Introduction
Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works)