The paper deals with the changes of meaning of gender relations in the Czech working-class and the forming socialist movement during the period from 1870 to 1914. It focuses on the relationship between the struggle for recognition, i. e. on the critical articulations of a misrecogniton as well as on the imagination of ideal social order, and the constitution of mass socialist party.
The attention is paid to the roles, which men (or/and masculinity) and women (or/and feminity) should have held