Syllabus

1. Introductory Lesson – definition of the course content, presentation of the study requirements, introduction to the topic of the women's rights in the Czech lands – periodization

2. Women's Human Rights - the position of women in society as a subject of historiographical, legal-historical and sociological research, the relevance of gender studies

3. The Beginnings of the Women's Movement - the causes of the first cultural, educational and supportive women's organizations in the period from the 1860s onwards, programs of the women's movement

4. The Right to Education at the End of the 19th Century – the issue of female education at the turn of the century in the Austrian monarchy and in Bohemia, the Minerva phenomenon, study abroad

5. The Fight for Women's Rights at the End of the Austrian Monarchy - active and passive suffrage, Františka Plamínková's activism, influence of Anglo-American culture, Tomáš G. Masaryk and the women's question

6. The First World War as a Turning Point in the Concept of Women - the impact of the war on the change in the understanding of the social role of women,

the effort for equal rights between men and women in post-war Czechoslovakia, women's association activities in the new republic

7. Women in "Male" Professions - the new role of women, women as teachers, journalists, doctors, scientists, politicians, interwar everyday life of working women

8. Czech Women in the Fight against Nazism – the Nazi ideal and the real role of women in the Protectorate, the involvement of women in the domestic resistance, forgotten heroines

9. The Role of Women in the Era of Stalinism - the women's movement during the time of Milada Horáková and Anežka Hodinová-Spurná, the adoption of Soviet models of gender indoctrination,

the importance of the Czechoslovak Women's Union, the legal biennial and the new legal concept of women

10. Sexual Revolution in the Czechoslovakia – second wave feminism in the Czechoslovak environment, the phenomenon of the Vlasta magazine, contraception and the new concept of family law,

work as a path to emancipation

11. Normalization and Emancipation of Women – the return of conservatism or quiet emancipation?, Husák's family, development of modern sexology, women's issue in dissent

12. The Wild Nineties - the new sexual revolution, American cultural influence, prostitution, legislative changes after 1989, political feminism

13. An Illusion of Gender Equality - current discussion about the position of women in Czech society under the influence of European legislation and international agreements, #metoo in the Czech Republic