Dasa Francikova

Joint PhD Program in Women’s Studies and History Student

Contact Information:
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Email: dafranc@umich.edu

Scholarly Interests: Women's participation in the nineteenth-century national building processes, feminisms, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, history of medicine, and nationalisms.

Presentations and Publications:

Presentations:
 April 2007 Beyond Little Vera: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Welfare in Russian and Central/Eastern Europe (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio). Presented paper entitled “All Patriots, but Particularly Women... Education on the Reproduction of the Nation: the Czech National Movement in 1850.

April 2007 Midwest Slavic Conference, (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio). Presented paper entitled “Education, Women, and the Building of the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia.

Publications: 

"´My Dear Only One´: Rethinking Božena Němcová´s friendships with women." Translated from English to Russian. In Gender History in Eastern Europe. Edited by Elena Gapova, Almira Ousmanova and Andrea Peto, 170-176. EHU, Minsk, 2002. 

"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.