Dása Francíková

Women as Essential Citizens in the Czech National Movement (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of the Modern Czech Community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study uses the Czech national movement in the Austrian Empire between the late 1820s and the late 1850s to examine the complex set of social, physical, physiological, and moral requirements through which women became crucial social and political actors responsible for the existence of modern national communities. Situated within the larger frameworks of public and private spheres, contemporary Czech discussions of the positionality of women, and an understanding of the categories of gender and "woman" as fluid concepts, this book analyzes how Czech nationalists-in relation to and in comparison with other nineteenth-century nationalist movements-proposed that women become the central agents of the process to guarantee the continuity of the nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498548090
• Artikelnr.: 48565056

Autorenporträt

Dáa Fran¿íková is an independent scholar who previously taught in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Negotiating Spaces and the Boundaries of the Public and Private:
Women and the Construction of the Modern Czech National Community Chapter
2: "My Dear Only One": Women, Nationalist Romantic Friendships, and the
Boundaries of Public and Private Chapter 3: The Queer Story of Kate¿ina
Maralová: The Female Soldier, the Ideal Woman, and Masculine Femininity
Chapter 4: Women Guaranteeing the Future Existence and Belonging in the
National Community Chapter 5: "A Matter of Physical Health and Strength":
Disciplining the Female Body and Reproducing the Modern Czech Community