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Elusive equality : gender, citizenship, and the limits of democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950 / Melissa Feinberg.
Van Pelt Library HQ1610.3 .F44 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feinberg, Melissa.
- Series:
- Series in Russian and East European studies
- Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Czechoslovakia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women's rights--Czechoslovakia.
- Women's rights.
- Social conditions.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : gender, rights, and the limits of equality in Czechoslovakia
- Masaryk, feminism, and democracy in the Czech lands
- The fight over the Czechoslovak civil code
- One family, one nation : the problem of married women's citizenship
- Women in the civil service
- Abortion politics in interwar Czechoslovakia
- Women and politics in the Czech lands after Munich
- The limits of citizenship in the people's democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082294281X
- OCLC:
- 62342759
- Publisher Number:
- 9780822942818
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