HIB0370 The Czech Womens Movement in the First Half of 20th Century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Denisa Nečasová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
Wed 16:40–18:15 zrusena A22 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
A course "Czech womens movement in the first half of 2Oth century" should afford fundamental contextual information about history of womens movement in Czech lands in this period. Lectures are mainly interested in cardinal trends and influential ideologies of womens movement (and its opponents) as well as social status of women in the changeable first half of 20th century. An integral part of the course is an elemental apprising of metodology gender and womens history. At the end of the course students should be able to use these approaches in their work. They also should be able to understand and explain context of womens movement and social status of women in variaty of its main aspects.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction - view of contemporary research and literure 2. Theoretic excurcus - terms womens movement, feminism, emancipation, gender history/womens history 3. Womens movement in the 19th century, social status of women in this period 4. Fin de siècle - main trends of womens movement, differentiation 5. Concrete Czech associations, cooperation/noncooperation with other national womens associations in the monarchy 6. Woman suffrage 7. Women and political parties 8.Interwar period, international cooperation 9. Age of occupation, influence of world wars over social status of women 10. Years 1945-1948 - womens movement and a role of women in this period 11. February 1848 and its influence over womens movement 12. Image of "new socialist women" in the first decade after overturn in Czechoslovakia
Literature
  • Musilová, Dana. Z ženského pohledu. Poslankyně a senátorky Národního shromáždění Československé republiky 1918-1939. Hradec Králové: Nakladatelství Bohumír Němec - Veduta, 2007.
  • Feminism and History. Edited by Joan Wallach Scott. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Offen, Karen. European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History. Standford - California: Standford University Press.
  • Reflexe a sebereflexe ženy v české národní elitě 2. poloviny 19. století : sborník příspěvků z konference uspořádané ve dnech 23.-24. listopadu 2006 Národním archivem ve spolupráci s Archivem hlavního města Prahy. Edited by Milan Vojáček. Vyd. 1. Praha: Scriptorium, 2007, 366 s. ISBN 9788086197838. info
  • BOCK, Gisela. Ženy v evropských dějinách : od středověku do současnosti. Translated by Alexej Kusák. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007, 381 s. ISBN 9788071064947. info
  • ABRAMS, Lynn. Zrození moderní ženy : Evropa 1789-1918. Translated by Eva Lajkepová. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005, 367 s. ISBN 8073250608. info
  • Panství člověka a touha ženy :feminismus mezi psychoanalýzou a poststrukturalismem. Edited by Pavel Barša. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002, 323 s. ISBN 80-86429-06-7. info
  • The European women's history reader. Edited by Fiona Montgomery - Christine Collette. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2002, x, 380. ISBN 0415220823. info
  • LENDEROVÁ, Milena. K hříchu i k modlitbě : žena v minulém století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1999, 300 s. ISBN 8020407375. info
  • HORSKÁ, Pavla. Naše prababičky feministky. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999, 123 s. ISBN 80-7106-380-0. info
  • A history of women in the west. Edited by Françoise Thébaud - Georges Duby - Michelle Perrot. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994, x, 713 s. ISBN 0-674-40365-7. info
  • COTT, Nancy F. The grounding of modern feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, xiii, 372. ISBN 0300042280. info
Assessment methods
Seminary with discussions and reading sources. Final written work.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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