Denisa Nešt‘áková
Biographic Data
| ID | 4102020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denisa Nešt‘áková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Nešt‘áková |
| SIGNATURE | NEŠT‘ÁKOVÁ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Herder Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1208-6302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Domestic Violence as a Threat to Socialist Society
This article explores the intellectual and political legacy of Lila Hojčová (1912–1989), a Slovak lawyer, sociologist, communist, and advocate for women's rights embedded within state-socialist institutions in Czechoslovakia. By addressing issues that challenged the socialist pledge of gender equality in her work, including alcoholism, domestic violence, and family breakdown within Slovak society, Hojčová's legal and sociological expertise functi…
“Such women—such a nation” Antifeminism and Female Mobilization in the Fascist-Axis Slovak State
NEKOV, Denisa."Such women-such a nation." Antifeminism and Female Mobilization in the Fascist-Axis Slovak State.Nazism, Fascism, and regimes under their influence, such as the Slovak State, promoted a traditionalist and patriarchal view of the role of women in society, offering a definition primarily as mothers.The present article explores how, by way of mass mobilization efforts, the Slovak State positioned women both as instruments in reinforci…
In the Name of Helping Women
Fuelled by nationalism and Catholicism, the wartime Slovak state, a client state of Nazi Germany, aimed to promote population growth by forcing the return of women from public to private life and supporting Slovak Christian families, but also by stigmatizing and restricting any sexuality that was not reproductive. Under these circumstances, where women were shamed for not having enough children, all previously permitted methods of birth control w…
The Nation at Stake? Ideologizing Conceptions of Family Planning in East Central Europe Since 1939
This introduction outlines the conceptional framework of the special issue and the current state of research as well as the main juridical, political and social milestones within the discussed timeframe. It offers a historicized view on conceptions of the family and their interdependencies, particularly perceptions of the woman’s role in the respective societies and states for the assessment of family values. In doing so, it places a lens on abor…
Family Conceptions at the Intersection of Feminism, Public Health, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia (1918–1939)
Even the seemingly liberal Czechoslovak political elites were anxious about the notion of depopulation, and feared the death of the nation, which led them to disregard the societal need for modernizing family planning. At the same time, Czechoslovak women experts were significantly involved in debates on conceptions of the family. They fueled debates on the sexual liberation of women in Czechoslovakia not as a matter of ideology or morality, but …
Slovak-language books published in 2018–2021
Greetings from Auschwitz
As a client state of Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic was granted a number of benefits. One such alleged benefit was the allowing of correspondence between the deported Slovak Jews and those who remained in Slovakia. This article investigates the highly censored letters sent by Slovak Jews shortly after their deportation, in which they manage to code essential information on the destruction of Slovak Jewry. By examining these letters, which supp…
Hájková, Anna. The Last Ghetto
In 1941, about seventy kilometers from Prague in the Czech town of Terezín, the Nazi regime established a ghetto known as Theresienstadt. Until May 1945, more than 140,000 Austrian, Danish, Dutch, German, Slovak, Hungarian, and Czech Jews were imprisoned there. After the war, in 1947, the Czechoslovak government initiated the creation of the National Suffering Memorial on the premises of the former ghetto. Later on, it was renamed the Terezín Mem…
Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia
This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in deportations of Jews of Slovakia between 1942 and 1944. Swedish officials and religious leaders used their diplomatic correspondence with the Slovak government to extract some Jewish individuals and later on the whole Jewish community of Slovakia from deportations by their government and eventually by German officials. Despite the efforts of the Swedish Royal Consulate in Bra…
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Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia
This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in deportations of Jews of Slovakia between 1942 and 1944. Swedish officials and religious leaders used their diplomatic correspondence with the Slovak government to extract some Jewish individuals and later on the whole Jewish community of Slovakia from deportations by their government and eventually by German officials. Despite the efforts of the Swedish Royal Consulate in Bra…
Greetings from Auschwitz
As a client state of Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic was granted a number of benefits. One such alleged benefit was the allowing of correspondence between the deported Slovak Jews and those who remained in Slovakia. This article investigates the highly censored letters sent by Slovak Jews shortly after their deportation, in which they manage to code essential information on the destruction of Slovak Jewry. By examining these letters, which supp…
Hájková, Anna. The Last Ghetto
In 1941, about seventy kilometers from Prague in the Czech town of Terezín, the Nazi regime established a ghetto known as Theresienstadt. Until May 1945, more than 140,000 Austrian, Danish, Dutch, German, Slovak, Hungarian, and Czech Jews were imprisoned there. After the war, in 1947, the Czechoslovak government initiated the creation of the National Suffering Memorial on the premises of the former ghetto. Later on, it was renamed the Terezín Mem…
Slovak-language books published in 2018–2021
In the Name of Helping Women
Fuelled by nationalism and Catholicism, the wartime Slovak state, a client state of Nazi Germany, aimed to promote population growth by forcing the return of women from public to private life and supporting Slovak Christian families, but also by stigmatizing and restricting any sexuality that was not reproductive. Under these circumstances, where women were shamed for not having enough children, all previously permitted methods of birth control w…
The Nation at Stake? Ideologizing Conceptions of Family Planning in East Central Europe Since 1939
This introduction outlines the conceptional framework of the special issue and the current state of research as well as the main juridical, political and social milestones within the discussed timeframe. It offers a historicized view on conceptions of the family and their interdependencies, particularly perceptions of the woman’s role in the respective societies and states for the assessment of family values. In doing so, it places a lens on abor…
Family Conceptions at the Intersection of Feminism, Public Health, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia (1918–1939)
Even the seemingly liberal Czechoslovak political elites were anxious about the notion of depopulation, and feared the death of the nation, which led them to disregard the societal need for modernizing family planning. At the same time, Czechoslovak women experts were significantly involved in debates on conceptions of the family. They fueled debates on the sexual liberation of women in Czechoslovakia not as a matter of ideology or morality, but …
“Such women—such a nation” Antifeminism and Female Mobilization in the Fascist-Axis Slovak State
NEKOV, Denisa."Such women-such a nation." Antifeminism and Female Mobilization in the Fascist-Axis Slovak State.Nazism, Fascism, and regimes under their influence, such as the Slovak State, promoted a traditionalist and patriarchal view of the role of women in society, offering a definition primarily as mothers.The present article explores how, by way of mass mobilization efforts, the Slovak State positioned women both as instruments in reinforci…
Domestic Violence as a Threat to Socialist Society
This article explores the intellectual and political legacy of Lila Hojčová (1912–1989), a Slovak lawyer, sociologist, communist, and advocate for women's rights embedded within state-socialist institutions in Czechoslovakia. By addressing issues that challenged the socialist pledge of gender equality in her work, including alcoholism, domestic violence, and family breakdown within Slovak society, Hojčová's legal and sociological expertise functi…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Slovak (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Czech (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · History (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works)