TY  - UNPB
M1  - Doctoral
A1  - Robinson, L.C.
ID  - discovery1317596
N2  - The development of the Czech feminist movement was inextricably
linked with nationalism. Nationalist ideology recognised the power
of women as mothers and their consequent claim to equality within
the context of the nation. Having implicitly acknowledged the
justice of feminism, nationalists then had to accommodate women's
demands. As nationalism changed from a cultural to a political
force, feminine patriotism slowly became a feminist movement.
These links with nationalism stimulated the development and
self-confidence of the Czech women's movement but they also
engendered in feminists an unjustified belief in the instinctive
feminism of Czech nationalists. The movement's development
reflected that of feminist movements elsewhere. Demands for
education led to attempts to obtain for women a place In social
and political life, culminating in the demand for the vote.
In the Czech case, however, such political demands produced
tensions In the feminist movement. They raised the question of
whether feminists' first allegiance should be to women, or whether
they should merge their campaigns with those of the nationalist
movement, as represented by the many political parties which had
women's rights on their programmes. Much of the energy of the
movement in the last ten years of this period was absorbed by
this debate and the more general issues of what feminists wanted
to achieve and how they should do it. Even the non-feminist 
women's movements attached to the Social Democratic and National
Socialist parties had similar-difficulties. All these groups of
women, feminist and non-feminist were concerned to define their
place and establish themselves as an identifiable force. This led
to an intense and fruitless preoccupation with organisation, which
was only brought to an end when the
First World-War changed the assumptions of Czech political life.
PB  - University of London
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317596/
N1  - Thesis digitised by British Library EThoS
TI  - Czech feminism
EP  - 374
Y1  - 1980///
AV  - public
ER  -