Visible and Invisible Role of Women in the Czech Dissent during the 1970s and 1980s

0502617 - ÚSD 2019 RIV HR eng J - Journal Article
Krátká, Lenka
Visible and Invisible Role of Women in the Czech Dissent during the 1970s and 1980s.
West Croatian History Journal. Roč. 11, Fall (2016), s. 111-130. ISSN 1846-3223
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-14167S
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : oral history * dissent * gender * socialism
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

In Czechoslovakia, similarly to other socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century, various opposition/dissident groups were acting with the aim to contradict and subvert official – communist – regimes (dissidents engaged, for example, in publishing and distributing samizdat literature or organizing protests and petitions). With the help of twenty-one interviews with women from Czech dissent, this paper reflects on the basic gender relationships and possible stereotypes and hierarchies within the dissident movement in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and mainly the 1980s. It confirms the supportive, „invisible” role of women in this sphere, but also draws attention to their active participation in dissident activities.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0294512