Women's studies, women's history, and reclaiming the history of important feminist women and men is just beginning in the Czech Republic. Lenka Vytlacilova, a student at Charles University in Prague, wrote to thank me for Sunshine for Women. Well, one thing lead to another and, to make a long story short, we have teamed up to create this page celebrating Czech feminist Trailblazers. Lenka uses turn-of-the-century and pre-WW II books and encyclopedias from her university to write profiles of important feminist Trailblazers. She e-mails them to me and I place them here on Sunshine for Women. Like all students, Lenka has limited time for extra-curricular activities. But we intend on adding new profiles as her time permits.

Anna Bayerová (1853 -1924) Eliška Krásnohorská (1847 - 1926) Alice Masarykova (1879-1966) (off site) T. G. Masaryk (1850-1937)           Tomas G. Masaryk: Independent Bohemia (1915) Karolina Svěltá (1830-1899) (in progress) The Woman Question in Bohemia by Eliška Krásnohorská "Žena v demokracii" ("The Woman in Democracy"), a speech by Františka Plamínková (c. 1924) Women in Medicine Women in Parliament Women in Polish History A collection of brief biographies on several important Czech women Adele Crepaz, The Emancipation of Women and its Probable Consequences [London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893 and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893] with an introductory letter by British Prime Minister Gladstone who had read the book in the German original. Originally published as Die Gafahen der Frauen-Emancipation [Leipzig: Karl Reis(p)ner, 1892] and translated into English. Adele Zarda Crepaz (1849 - ) was a German-speaking Czech, born in Brno, today part of the Czech Republic.

Black Ribbon Campaign Photo Libraries David Hart's Study Guides to War Art Images of WW I: French Posters 1914-1920 Künstler Gegen Den Krieg (Artists Against This War) Historical Order of Event Calias and Burghers of Calias Rodin Goya: Disasters of War or A suite of etchings from The Disasters of War at Gallery One in Canada or Third of May at U. of Adelaide Guernica Piccasso Rheims Lidice, Czeck Republic Lezaky, Czeck Republic A visit to Terezin Warsaw Ghetto or Warsaw Ghetto or Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Firebombing of Hamburg, Germany, WW II Bombing of Dresden or Bombing of Dresden in World War II Stari Most (Old Bridge in Mostar) or Mostar Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town (Afghanistan, 2001) "A Crusade Against Terrorism"?: Perspectives on Operation Enduring Freedom

Note: The Czech alphabet has 40 letters, 14 more letters than the English alphabet. The Czech Feminist Trailblazers pages at this site use the windows-1250 character set. If your browser cannot load that middle European character set, some of the Czech letters will not display correctly.

A Celebration of Women Writers has a page which lists women writers throughout history from the Czech Republic.

The US Library of Congress now has an exhibit celebrating the 80th anniversary of Czech Independence.

The Following collection of links take you off the Sunshine for Women website.

Czech Feminist Organizations

Aspektu (in Czech)
          2/2000 - 1/2001 Patriarchát (in Czech)
BKB, Bílý kruh bezpečí ("White Cycle", a Czech anti-domestic violence organization, in Czech)
feminismus.cz (in Czech)
          ROSA (in Czech)
          Násilí (in Czech)
Feministicka Skupina 8. brezna
Gender Studies Centre Prague, Czech Republic (in Czech)
Knihkupectvi
ProFEM (in Czech)
          Koordinacni Kruh (in Czech)
Násilí (in Czech)

Articles about Feminism in the Czech Republic

Feminist Forum
The status of Czech Women - Then and Now by Marie Dolansky (USA) and Zora Fricova (Czech Republic), Feb 2001, Second Winter Symposium, Czechoslovak Genealogical society International, Feb. 10, 2001, San Diego, Ca.
Where Have All the Men Gone?
Why Western Feminism Isn't Working in the Czech Republic

Women in Bohemian and Czech History and Women in the Czech Diaspora

Perchta z. Rozmberka, Fifteenth - Century Noblewoman
Higher education and the Czech women's rights movement
Božena Němcová
Kapralova Society
          Women in Czech Music
Božena Salava by Peter R. D'Agostino, in Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001): 771-3.
Josefa Veronika Humpal-Zeman by Julia E. Noblitt with Alena Zárasová in Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, by Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001)
"The Bohemian People in Chicago," by Josefa Humpal Zeman, Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions (New York: Thomas V. Crowell, 1895): 115-28.
"The Women of Bohemia" by Mrs. Josefa Humpal Zeman. Publication: Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham, ed. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893. Chicago, ILL: Monarch Book Company, 1894. pp. 127-130.

Czech Republic

Prague Post On-Line
Prague Tribune (monthly)
Radio Prague

Women and Feminism in Other Eastern European Countries

Important Polish Women

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Sunshine for Women encourages you to support our feminist sisters by purchasing their books, reading them, disseminating the ideas they contain, but most especially, by making their book available to our sisters, our daughters, and the community at large by requesting your school library, your public library, and area bookstores to carry their books. Remember it is not enough to write literature, history, and theology, we must pass these works on to future generations. Help us to preserve these works for a new generation by putting them on library bookshelves.

Created and maintained by Sunshine. Copyrighted by Lenka Vytlacilova, 1998. You have Sunshine's permission to copy and disseminate this document as long as it is attributed to Lenka Vytlacilova and Sunshine's URL appears on the document.

last updated June 2004