„Dotud nelze mluviti, že máme všeobecné právo hlasovací, pokud se vztahuje jen na muže.“ Volební reforma z roku 1907 v diskursu českého/českých hnutí za volební právo pro ženy
Jitka Gelnarová
???The electoral reform of 1907 for the Lower House of the Austrian parliament abolished the system of corporate representation rested on curiae and the “universal” male suffrage became henceforth equal. Not only was women’s suffrage not included into the reform, but also the rest of previously existing restricted women’s rights was cancelled by it. The article deals with the Czech women’s suffrage movement/s discourse/es on the electoral reform of 1907. It aims to trace how the reform, and especially the fact that it did not include the women’s suffrage, was perceived and presented by the representatives of the movement/s and how these representatives themselves understood and used the term “universal suffrage”. The analysis shows that we can trace two different discourses on the reform: whereas the discourse of the representatives of the civic and national socialist women’s movements on the reform was based on the critique of the fact that women’s suffrage was not included, this fact was perceived as secondary by the representatives of the social democratic women’s movement who presented the introduction of the women’s suffrage as a logical consequence of the introduction of the “universal” male suffrage.
