Gender and the Politics of Difference in the Czech Lands after Munich
Gender and the Politics of Difference in the Czech Lands after Munich

Summary/Abstract: This article examines gender politics in the Czech lands after the Munich conference of 1938. It first outlines the social policies of the Second Czechoslovak Republic and the laws it designed to redirect women’s participation in the workforce and in public life. Then, it looks at women’s own participation in this campaign to “reorient” gender relations, showing how some women hoped to use the new regime to help translate their beliefs about gender difference into policy. It uses debates over women’s rights and the content of women’s citizenship to show how the regime of the Second Republic was linked to other rightist regimes in Europe. It argues that all these regimes began to see the question of rights and citizenship in new terms, terms that were based on difference rather than equality.

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