Forward, Women! Representations of femininity in the Social Democratic "Women's Newspaper" before the 1919 municipal elections
2013
Abstract
The article analyses election party propaganda in the Czech Social Democratic Women’s Newspaper before the municipal elections in June 1919. It aims to describe the communication strategies employed to mobilize readers, the normative representations of women and women’s political activity presented to the reader, as well as the negative images of class adversaries.
It focuses mainly on specifically gendered ways of appealing to voters and strengthening their solidarity with the working class. The paper understands party propaganda as a means to gain insight into the discourse on women and their political participation in the new Czechoslovak Republic.