Elusive Equality : Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918-1950.
Feinberg, Melissa.
Elusive Equality : Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918-1950. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (287 pages) - Russian and East European Studies ; v.233 . - Russian and East European Studies .
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.
9780822971030
Women-Czechoslovakia-Social conditions.
Women's rights-Czechoslovakia.
Electronic books.
HQ1610
323.340943709041
Elusive Equality : Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918-1950. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (287 pages) - Russian and East European Studies ; v.233 . - Russian and East European Studies .
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.
9780822971030
Women-Czechoslovakia-Social conditions.
Women's rights-Czechoslovakia.
Electronic books.
HQ1610
323.340943709041