A New Type of Woman: Emancipation and Visual Presentation of Women under Communism

The exhibition of Martina Smutná entitled Together We´ll Mow, Thresh and Deliver the Harvest tackles two subjects which continue to be approached by Czech society at large either hesitantly, or contrariwise, with a good deal of emotion and lack of restraint: namely, the issues of the status of women, and the country´s history under the communist regime. Actually, this sense of uncertainty in dealing with these two subjects may be correlated.