Buduj vlast - posílíš mír! Ženské hnutí v českých zemích 1945-1955
| Title in English | Build Your Homeland - You Strengthen Peace! The Womenś Movement in the Czech Lands 1945-1955 |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The purpose of the book is to outline changes of the form and content of the womenś organizations in the Czech Lands in 1945-1955 with a special emphasis on the gradual transformation under the communist regime. It was by means of these organizations that the phenonmenon of womenś movement as one of significant features of modern society was realized in the given period, although the usage of the term itself is problematic with regard to the period after February 1948. The womenś organizations are examined on the basis of several main indicators: process and conditions of formation of the individual organizations, proclaimed aims, actual activities, organizational structure, membership, contacts to international womenś organizations and, after February 1948, mutual relationship with the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. These issues are placed into a wider context in the first chapter dealing with womenś movement in the Czech Lands from the 19th century to the Second World War. The last part of the book is dedicated to portrayals of the "new" socialist women, which represent post-February changes at a symbolic level. In terms of methodology, comparison of selected factors in various period is predominant. The overall structure of the text, its division into identical subchapters, conforms to this approach. The employed methodology also includes the category of gender, which refers to the construed and extrinsic, and thus changable in time and space, from of feminity and masculinity. The book is based particularly on archive materials of varied provenience, but contemporaneous periodicals and publications are previous sources as well. |
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