CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Zita Kārkla. Introduction: Women's Agency. Multiplying stories and subjects

ARTICLES

• Zane Rozīte. Female Academics at the University of Latvia (1919–1930): A Brief Insight into the Key Issues

• Anastasija Smirnova. Female Managers of Social Care Institutions in Riga: the Case of Minoritц Asцlums (1918–1940)

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone. The Beginnings of Women's Agency in Latvian Foreign Affairs: Autobiographical Approach

• Ineta Lipša. Women Running for the Office of MP under the Flexible Lists System in Latvia: the Case Studies of Milda Salnā and Berta Pīpiņa (1922–1934)

• Baiba Vanaga. German Women Active in the Study and Promotion of Art History in Latvia from the 1880s until 1915
• Rasa Pārpuce-Blauma. The Contribution of Feature Writer Laura Marholm to the Discourse on Women's Emancipation in the German-language Press of Latvia at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Zita Kārkla. From Claiming Authority to Sensuous Excursions: Mapping the Female Body in Latvian Women's Travel Writing (1878–1920)

• Māra Grudule. Baltic German Women between Two Cultures: Translators of Latvian Literature at the End of the 19th Century and in the 20th Century

• Signe Raudive. Women in the Book Publishing Industry of Latvia During the Interwar Period