This study examines the connection between the categories of nation and gender in the ideology of Božena Viková-Kunětická. Through the analysis of her public statements and speeches, it seeks to better understand the functions and roles in which Viková-Kunětická imagined women serving the Czechoslovak national project. It also considers whether she perceived women (including herself) as active political agents — i.e. as subjects or else as passive objects. The text is methodologically based on the classification of women’s roles developed by Nira Yuval-Davis in her works on gender and nationalism, reconstructing the views of a female politician on the role of women on three lev els: practical-natural, symbolic, and practical-political. Taken together, these three levels make up a particular national feminine discourse founded by its ideologue Božena Viková-Kunětická. The conclusion is devoted to the assessment of the relevance of the designation of the writer as an ideo logue of the matriarchy.
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