11 Facts About Viola Klein

Viola Klein's work demonstrated that objective ideas about women's attributes are socially constructed.

Viola Klein was born in Vienna in 1908 to a Jewish family.

Viola Klein continued her studies at the university in Prague and graduated in fields of psychology and philosophy.

In 1946, Viola Klein published her second thesis, one of her best known publications - The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology.

Viola Klein worked in relatively lower status positions as editor, translator and teacher.

Viola Klein's thoughts were constructed around the meaning of a femininity concept and the social creation of a feminine character.

Viola Klein was the first who used Mannheim's theory and applied it to studies about a particular subject: femininity.

Viola Klein explains that she tried to create new questioning based on already completed research in different fields of studies.

Viola Klein explains that the universal theme that is the feminine role deserves to be constantly re-examined and matched with old and new studies, because scholars' ways of thinking guide our understandings of society more subjectively than objectively, regardless of the empirical framework.

From this point of view Viola Klein wanted to show how Role Theory has been developed.

Myrdal and Viola Klein predicted that families in the future would have an average of three children.