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Elusive Equality : Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918-1950.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian and East European StudiesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822971030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elusive EqualityDDC classification:
  • 323.340943709041
LOC classification:
  • HQ1610
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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