Kathleen Hayes received her Ph.D from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and has taught Czech literature and history at Charles University and New York University in Prague.

“Jesenská’s essays offer firsthand observations on a society that was slowly imploding between the years 1920 and 1939 [and] will certainly encourage lively classroom debates (especially in women’s studies, political science and history courses) concerning politics, the condition of women, and social problems of yesterday and today.”   · Slavic and East European Journal

• AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextIntroductionIllustrationsI. Articles from Tribuna, 1920–1922What People Eat in ViennaThe New Big-City TypeBathing CostumesThe New Big-City Type IIThe CaféThe Letters of Eminent PeopleShop-WindowsThe Household and OverallsDance over the AbyssChildrenMy FriendMysterious RedemptionMelancholy in the RainSuperficial Small Talk about a Serious SubjectII. Articles from Národní listy and Lidové noviny, 1922–1929On the Psychology of the New SocietyDevil at the HearthThe Bath, the Body and EleganceA Few Old-Fashioned Comments About Women’s EmancipationA Theme that has Nothing to do with FashionA Beautiful WomanFrom One Person to AnotherThe Curse of Outstanding QualitiesFor Whom Do We Write About Fashion in the Newspapers?BabyA Cry for IndependenceCivilised Woman?III. Articles from Pˇrítomnost, 1938–1939Judge Lynch in EuropeThere will be no AnschlussHundreds of Thousands Looking for No-Man’s-LandBeyond Our StrengthWhat Remains of the Communist Party?Married Women out of WorkIn No-Man’s-LandGood Advice is Better than GoldPrague, the Morning of 15 March 1939The Art of Standing StillAm I, First and Foremost, Czech?Soldaten wohnen auf den Kanonen…BibliographyIndex

Kathleen Hayes received her Ph.D from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and has taught Czech literature and history at Charles University and New York University in Prague.

“Jesenská’s essays offer firsthand observations on a society that was slowly imploding between the years 1920 and 1939 [and] will certainly encourage lively classroom debates (especially in women’s studies, political science and history courses) concerning politics, the condition of women, and social problems of yesterday and today.”   · Slavic and East European Journal

• AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextIntroductionIllustrationsI. Articles from Tribuna, 1920–1922What People Eat in ViennaThe New Big-City TypeBathing CostumesThe New Big-City Type IIThe CaféThe Letters of Eminent PeopleShop-WindowsThe Household and OverallsDance over the AbyssChildrenMy FriendMysterious RedemptionMelancholy in the RainSuperficial Small Talk about a Serious SubjectII. Articles from Národní listy and Lidové noviny, 1922–1929On the Psychology of the New SocietyDevil at the HearthThe Bath, the Body and EleganceA Few Old-Fashioned Comments About Women’s EmancipationA Theme that has Nothing to do with FashionA Beautiful WomanFrom One Person to AnotherThe Curse of Outstanding QualitiesFor Whom Do We Write About Fashion in the Newspapers?BabyA Cry for IndependenceCivilised Woman?III. Articles from Pˇrítomnost, 1938–1939Judge Lynch in EuropeThere will be no AnschlussHundreds of Thousands Looking for No-Man’s-LandBeyond Our StrengthWhat Remains of the Communist Party?Married Women out of WorkIn No-Man’s-LandGood Advice is Better than GoldPrague, the Morning of 15 March 1939The Art of Standing StillAm I, First and Foremost, Czech?Soldaten wohnen auf den Kanonen…BibliographyIndex

Kathleen Hayes received her Ph.D from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and has taught Czech literature and history at Charles University and New York University in Prague.

“Jesenská’s essays offer firsthand observations on a society that was slowly imploding between the years 1920 and 1939 [and] will certainly encourage lively classroom debates (especially in women’s studies, political science and history courses) concerning politics, the condition of women, and social problems of yesterday and today.”   · Slavic and East European Journal

• AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextIntroductionIllustrationsI. Articles from Tribuna, 1920–1922What People Eat in ViennaThe New Big-City TypeBathing CostumesThe New Big-City Type IIThe CaféThe Letters of Eminent PeopleShop-WindowsThe Household and OverallsDance over the AbyssChildrenMy FriendMysterious RedemptionMelancholy in the RainSuperficial Small Talk about a Serious SubjectII. Articles from Národní listy and Lidové noviny, 1922–1929On the Psychology of the New SocietyDevil at the HearthThe Bath, the Body and EleganceA Few Old-Fashioned Comments About Women’s EmancipationA Theme that has Nothing to do with FashionA Beautiful WomanFrom One Person to AnotherThe Curse of Outstanding QualitiesFor Whom Do We Write About Fashion in the Newspapers?BabyA Cry for IndependenceCivilised Woman?III. Articles from Pˇrítomnost, 1938–1939Judge Lynch in EuropeThere will be no AnschlussHundreds of Thousands Looking for No-Man’s-LandBeyond Our StrengthWhat Remains of the Communist Party?Married Women out of WorkIn No-Man’s-LandGood Advice is Better than GoldPrague, the Morning of 15 March 1939The Art of Standing StillAm I, First and Foremost, Czech?Soldaten wohnen auf den Kanonen…BibliographyIndex