Z republiky do protektorátu. Přehled a charakteristika dosavadní produkce k postavení ženy ve společnosti na sklonku první republiky a v protektorátu

• Authors: Blanka Jedličková

Title variants

EN

From the Republic to the Protectorate. A Review and Characteristics of the Existing Production Dealing with the Position of Women in Society at the End of the First Czechoslovak Republic and at the Protectorate

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

There is no doubt that the period of Nazi occupation and of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was one of the most difficult ones in the nation’s past. What was the position of women in that “society locked in a totalitarian regime” viewed from the societal perspective? In the early 20th century women had already achieved a great progress in their emancipation. After the emergence of an independent state, society was slowly getting used to the equality of rights of both sexes. Still, women had to face a number of problems during the existence of independent and democratic Czechoslovakia. The Second World War changed their position both at the official and unofficial level. On the one hand, women were expected to concentrate on their age-long role of motherhood; on the other hand, however, they constituted an important and large labor force in the Nazi ideology. Irreversible transformations of the position of women in society took place in the occupied country and were then also reflected in the postwar period. Women became a very important segment of labor force expected to help with the postwar economic recovery, which applies not only to the period of 1945–1948, but primarily to the subsequent period during which the position of women changed dramatically.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th century; Czechoslovakia; Second World War; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; social conditions; position of women

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 173-201

Contributors

author

Blanka Jedličková

• Historický ústav AV ČR, Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic