FF:HIB0370 The Czech Womens Movement - Course Information

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

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Denisa Nečasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 15:50–17:25 B2.41

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

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Course objectives

Seminar on Czech women's movement in the first half of 20th   century, aims to outline the basic outline of events, trends and targets women's movement, including a brief outline of the status of women in the period  . Seminars are an integral part of the initial entry into gender issues and methodology of history and the history of women, including basic definitions (particularly women's movement, emancipation, gender, feminism) with   which can work. The present course content for the site primarily focuses on the efforts and the status of Czech women in national and territorial sense. For the wider context of an element of emancipation efforts of Western and especially American women, along with   the possibilities of application of basic public and private spheres. Interest will also be denied on the specific role of women in socialist society   and the birth of her "new" official version.   From a formal point of view is   seminar requiring active involvement of the students in the form of cooperation on the analysis and interpretation of historical texts related to the   problem. After graduation, students should understand the issues, interpret historical texts and analyze the basic topics.

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.
• Offen, Karen. European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History. Standford - California: Standford University Press.
• Feminism and History. Edited by Joan Wallach Scott. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• 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

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion, reading texts

Assessment methods

During the course, students participate in discussions and work with original sources. The final assessment takes the form of a seminar paper.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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