Pester Women's Charitable Society

The Pester Women's Charitable Society (Pesti Jótékony Nőegylet), founded in 1817 in Pest, was the first women’s organization to form in Hungary.[1] It was a Christian organization.[2] In this organization middle and upper-class women worked together.[3] The organization provided welfare services.[4] It ended in 1892.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Judit Acsády, “Remarks on the History of Hungarian Feminism,” Hungarian Studies Review Special Volume: Women and Hungary (1999), published online at http://regi.oszk.hu/kiadvany/hsr/1999/acsady.htm.
  2. ↑ H. Ellis (13 August 2014). Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000. Springer. pp. 114–. ISBN 978-1-137-34952-1.
  3. ↑ Susan Zimmermann (2011). Divide, Provide, and Rule: An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Policy, and Social Reform in Hungary Under the Habsburg Monarchy. Central European University Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-615-5053-19-1.
  4. ↑ Katalin Fábián (14 October 2009). Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9405-3.
  5. ↑ Alison S. Fell; Ingrid Sharp (15 May 2007). The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-230-01966-9.
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