Elusive Equality : Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918-1950.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Rights, and the Limits of Equality in Czechoslovakia -- 1 / Masaryk, Feminism, and Democracy in the Czech Lands -- 2 / The Fight over the Czechoslovak Civil Code -- 3 / One Family, One Nation: The Problem of Married Women's Citizenship -- 4 / Women in the Civil Service -- 5 / Abortion Politics in Interwar Czechoslovakia -- 6 / Women and Politics in the Czech Lands after Munich -- 7 / The Limits of Citizenship in the People's Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Examines debates over women's rights in the first half of the twentieth century, to show how Czechs gradually turned away from democracy and established the separation of state and domestic issues, at the expense of personal freedoms.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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