Zsófia Lóránd

Zsófia Lóránd is Associate Professor at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. She is affiliated with the Research Center for the History of Political Transformations (RECET) as well. Previously, she worked at the University of Cambridge. Before that, at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen. Her monograph, The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia, explores the intellectual history of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, and was published in English in 2018 and in Croatian in 2020. Her co-edited Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the 20th Century (with Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz) was published in 2024. While living in Hungary, she worked for eight years as an SOS helpline volunteer and trainer in the field of domestic violence. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal L’Homme. European Journal for Feminist History and the advisory board of the journal Střed | Centre: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8855-6588

Selected publications

• Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Edited with Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz. Budapest – New York – Vienna: CEU Press, 2024. Open Access
• “‘Should Women Starve to Death?’: Alliances and Coalitions of the Hungarian Association of Feminists Amidst Inter-War Crises and the Peak of Fascist Anti-Modernism.” Contemporary European History 35 (2026): e48.
• “Women, Democracy, and the Political in the Writings of Women Intellectuals in Hungary and Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1948.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36(1), 121-148.
• The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia. Monograph in the series “Genders and Sexualities in History”. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
• “Socialism”, chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Global Feminism, ed. Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson, London: Routledge, 2022. 364-378.
• “International Solidarity as the Cornerstone of the Hungarian Post-War Socialist Women’s Rights Agenda in Women’s Magazines”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 67. Special Issue 30. 2022. 103-129.
• “‘A Politically Non-Dangerous Revolution is Not a Revolution’ – Critical Readings of the Concept of Sexual Revolution by Yugoslav Feminists in the 1970s”, European Review of History / revue européenne d histoire, 22:1 (2015), 120-137.