ABSTRACT
Around the turn of the twentieth century, no debate of the Lithuanian intelligentsia spoke more clearly about its yet to-be-defined identity, or about the early and formative character of the national movement than the debate on ‘Lithuanian women’ and their role in the nation’s politics. This debate surfaced in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and involved a large number of prominent activists. For more than two decades, ‘the women’s front’ was one of key cultural battlegrounds for the nationalist elite along their other ideological concerns.
