Abstract
For the title of their book the authoresses adopted a quotation by Božena Viková-Kunětická, a women-politician, writer and activist. Her election as depute of the Bohemian National Diet in 1912 represented an opportunity to survey more than a half-century long way from the times of establishment of the first women''s club in the Czech lands to the genesis of social movement which set as its objective the legislation of equal rights for women and men.
Nonetheless, collective struggle for emancipation and equal rights would not have been possible without a theoretical and ideological background. The objective of the research project was to survey the development of the feminist thinking in the Czech lands from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century as it can been seen through selected documents.
Included texts epitomize basic paradigms of the women''s movement in the Czech lands: motherhood, education and (paid) labour.