Elusive equality : gender, citizenship, and the limits of democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950 / Melissa Feinberg.

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