Vlasta Kálalová (Di-Lotti) and the Female Issue: The Analysis of the Correspondence of Vlasta Kálalová and Marie Tauerová from 1920s

Abstract

Vlasta Kálalová Di Lotti (1896 –1971), an important female representative of the First Czechoslovak Republic and the following years, set out to the Middle East in 1924 with intention to establish a small medical clinic and later a field research centre for tropical diseases’ studies. An analysis of her private letters shows how she reflected gender issues of her task

Keywords

• diseases
• feminism
• Czechoslovakia