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Informationen zum Autor Dáša Fran¿íková is an independent scholar who previously taught in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext This study uses the Czech national movement in the Austrian Empire between the late 1820s and the late 1850s to examine the complex set of social, physical, physiological, and moral requirements through which women became crucial social and political actors responsible for the existence of modern national communities. Situated within the larger frameworks of public and private spheres, contemporary Czech discussions of the positionality of women, and an understanding of the categories of gender and "woman" as fluid concepts, this book analyzes how Czech nationalists-in relation to and in comparison with other nineteenth-century nationalist movements-proposed that women become the central agents of the process to guarantee the continuity of the nation. Zusammenfassung This study examines the role of women as social and political actors within the mid-nineteenth-century Czech national movement. It analyzes the constructions of gender within the nationalist community and how women were identified as central agents of national processes that would guarantee the continuity of the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Negotiating Spaces and the Boundaries of the Public and Private: Women and the Construction of the Modern Czech National CommunityChapter 2: "My Dear Only One": Women, Nationalist Romantic Friendships, and the Boundaries of Public and PrivateChapter 3: The Queer Story of Kate¿ina Maršalová: The Female Soldier, the Ideal Woman, and Masculine FemininityChapter 4: Women Guaranteeing the Future Existence and Belonging in the National CommunityChapter 5: "A Matter of Physical Health and Strength": Disciplining the Female Body and Reproducing the Modern Czech Community
