This book began with my interest in friendships between women in the past, a topic I discovered as an exchange high school student in Columbus, Ohio when I happened to visit a course on history of same-sex sexuality taught by Leila Rupp at the Ohio State University. There I also met Basia Nowak who became a good friend, discussed my work with me, and taught me how to write. After I returned and...

“Let us see to it that our maidens do not hesitate to live as Czechs,” exclaimed journalist and playwright Josef Kajetán Tyl in a feuilleton...

In 1843, after several years of organizing social, cultural, and educational events for other Czech women and amid plans for opening her own educational institute for girls and young women, Antonie...

Although we do not know much about the majority of the women who gathered around Rajská, one of them, Božena Němcová, remains a Czech national legend: one of the most idolized members of the Czech national community and symbols of the movement.Parts of this chapter also appear in “‘My Dear Only One’: Rethinking Božena Němcová’s Friendships with Women,” published, translated from English to Russian, in Gender History in Eastern Europe, Elena Gapova, Almira Ousmanova, and Andrea Peto, 170–76 (Minsk: EHU, 2002); and “Female Friends in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia: Troubles with Affectionate Writing and ‘Patriotic Relationships,’” Journal of Women’s History 12, no. 3 (Autumn, 2000): 23–28. Praised as “the greatest Czech woman writer of the nineteenth...

In 1845,A version of this chapter is published as “The Queer Story of Kateřina Maršalová: The Female Soldier, Ideal Woman, and Masculine Femininity” in Gender & History 24:2 (August 2012): 353–367....

Similarly to others in the nineteenth century, Czechs focused on and emphasized lifestyle propositions and practices they believed would guarantee health and fitness, and, consequently, prosperity and future existence...

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In conclusion to “Žena” [Woman], a series of articles about women and women’s positionality in modern society published in the literary, arts, and science supplement to the popular journal Květy in...

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Dáša Frančíková received her PhD in history and women's studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published in the Journal of Women's History and Gender & History. Her new project is entitled "Going Global, Getting Personal: Transnational Lesbian Organizing and Relationships in the Late Twentieth and the Early...