Reflexe anglického a amerického ženského hnutí v českých ženských časopisech do roku 1914

• Authors: Marie L. Neudorflová

Title variants

EN

Considerations of the British and American women’s movement in Czech women’s magazines up to 1914

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

A number of papers looking at specific aspects of the Czech women’s movement touch upon the political dimension of the Czech women’s movement prior to 1914. They do not, however, look in detail at the efforts of Anglo-Saxon women to gain political rights as reflected in Czech women’s magazines which fairly regularly brought reports on the women’s movement abroad, especially regarding political aspects, beginning in the 1890s. With increasing efforts to achieve women’s suffrage abroad, contracts grew up between the Czech movement and those abroad. There was ever more information on the situation in Britain and the USA in particular due to the long tradition of women’s efforts there to achieve their political rights. The reports were not just admiring in nature, but also critical, so the extent of their impact on the Czech movement is hard to determine. What is clear is that information from abroad contributed to a feeling of wider solidarity, leading to

Keywords

EN

History of the 19th and 20th centuries; Czech lands; suffrage; journalism; women’s movement; suffragettes

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: 2015
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-39

Contributors

author

Marie L. Neudorflová

• Praha, Czech Republic