Abstrakt
The presentation focuses on party propaganda aimed at women before the 1919 municipal elections. These were the first elections to be held in the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, and the first in which women could vote in large numbers and on equal terms with men.
The presentation focuses on three selected Czech political parties and tracks the ways in which their propaganda reflected women's new position, outlined what they thought were women's interests and articulated their understanding of women's citizenship and women's role in a democratic state and society. Examined through a lens of gender, election propaganda offers excellent and in the Czech context yet unused material for tracing the partisan discourse (and to a degree, the public discourse) on women's position and appropriate role(s) in politics after the war.