Emancipating women - emancipating people: the discourse of authentic Czech woman in the nationalist movement during the late impreial period
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | As in other areas of education, such as gymnasiums and technical colleges, the training for farmers, the theme of education for women became a site for the construction and the subsequent propaganda of Czech education for the Czech nation. The significance of the girls’ education increased due to the growing importance of the child in national imagery, of improving its health and the role of the parents in achieving this mission. A young girl was viewed in two interrelated hypostases: as a child who belonged to the nation and as a potential mother who not only would give birth to a child, but would have to play a crucial in the child’s rearing and education. The mother’s wisdom, prudence and thoughtful behaviour were considered to be the essential grounds for the formation of emotional ties between the child and the world, indispensable resources for the child’s development. Arguments in favour of the enlightened motherhood were drawn up from the particular concept of the naturally developed child |
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