Abstract
This book is about the lives of young ‘ordinary’ Czech women who came of age in the aftermath of the November 1989 Velvet Revolution. It is a collection of interviews with fourteen women of similar age and education, but varying work, marital and childbearing experiences. Unlike many informants whose voices ‘disappear’ in random quotes and aggregate statistics and graphs, our respondents get to speak for themselves, and come across as real personalities. The fourteen chapters of interviews are preceded by a background chapter outlining the social and historical forces that have shaped these women’s lives. A concluding chapter analyses common themes emerging out of the interviews, linking them to both legacies of communism and the current postcommunist transition.
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Heitlinger, A., Trnka, S. (1998). Introduction. In: Young Women of Prague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14359-7_1
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