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Abstract Giulia Frontoni
During the revolutions of 1848/49 women took an active part in the protests and in particular upper class women tried to assert themselves in the public sphere. In my PhD- project I seek to examine how women's participation in the revolutions changed their political consciousness and I will ask whether this set in motion a generation building process on a European level.
By reading newspapers and exchanging letters upper class women could exchange ideas as well as experiences and thanks to their status these women could network with revolutionaries from other countries. In my project I take Italian and German speaking women into consideration and I investigate their connections as well as their transfer of ideas and experiences. Furthermore I examine how these exchanges contributed to and influenced women's political consciousness.
Taking into account the way in which women worked out their experiences before and after 1848, the project seeks to find out whether it is possible to speak of a generation of politically active women in the revolutions of 1848.