Judging by these facts alone one could think that I am writing from the country untouched by feminist struggles. Katherine McKinnon is a professor of law. The laws that she and another recognized feminist figure, Andrea Dworkin, have drafted are meant to fight these more than anything else. In both societies, women's emancipation was and is seen as part of other and, supposedly, bigger projects. It is believed that women, as a group, would benefit from larger societal transformations.
Domestic violence is an equality issue.
It is in the difficulty of finding a point of reference that the real challenge of gender studies in Eastern Europe is. Western feminists rushing in with shining eyes to Eastern and Central European countries sound too naive, too excited, too active, too funny and possibly dangerous. Tiffany Petros suggests that Czechs should learn Western norms.