Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4)
The Institution of Gender and the Gender of Institutions

Introduction to the Thematic Issue The Institution of Gender and the Gender of Institutions

Iva Šmídová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 645-648  

Gender in Science: Theoretical Perspectives and Their Application in Research

Mariana Szapuová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 649-670 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.02  

The objective of this article is to show how issues concerning women in science and the problem of gendered science, often treated separately, are interconnected. To examine how research on women in science and research on gender and science relate to each other, some feminist epistemological perspectives, mainly feminist contextual empiricism, are used in order to show how the feminist philosophical conceptual framework may be useful for understanding the problems currently faced by women in science. After reflecting and elaborating on the very thesis of gendered science, the author analyses in more detail the concept of epistemic communities and...

The Genealogy of Marriage

Sharon Marcus

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 671-706 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.03  

The article investigates the practice of female marriages in 19th century Great Britain and United States and argues that female marriages provided model for more progressive forms of the legal marriage between men and women. Unlike homosexuality in the 20th century, the same-sex relationships between women in the 19th century often enjoyed social recognition and some women in female marriages occupied prominent social positions. Because they were considered to rest on contract, female marriages served as inspiration for the contractual view of marriage advocated by many supporters of the Victorian marriage reform. The contribution of women in female...

Gendered Occupational Choice: Status Chances and Decision Strategies Concerning Education

Iva Šmídová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 707-726 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.04  

The article provides an overview of the main theoretical approaches to research on educational choices and anticipated labour-market opportunities from a gender perspective. It then presents the results of three quantitative analyses of secondary data. The objective is to help facilitate a complex understanding of the mechanisms of the reproduction of gendered social structures. The genderedness of the social institutions in the education system and the labour market in relation to the socialising trends in the family is described in three parts: 1) gender segregation in employment in the context of segregation in education - the author shows that...

The Classroom through the Lens of Gender

Lucie Jarkovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 727-752 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.05  

The article presents selected results from an ethnographic study on the (re)production of gender in the classroom. In this analysis, gender is conceived as a principle manifested in interactions, a principle that structures the lives of individuals and the collective, and not as a complex of essential characteristics of an individual. Gender is analysed in relation to other categories like age and ethnicity. These represent additional re/constructed categories that influence social inequality. These categories tend to be viewed as natural sources of social difference and the legitimisation of inequalities. An analysis of the ways in which these categories...

Work as a Solution? Livelihood Strategies of Lone Mothers in the Czech Republic

Radka Dudová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 753-784 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.06  

When examining the gender of institutions of parenthood, lone motherhood is a key issue. In this article the author focuses on the economic implications of lone motherhood and on the strategies that women living with children without a partner develop in order to ensure their livelihood. The author begins by presenting the theoretical background and some results from European and North American research on lone motherhood. She then provides an overview of research on lone parenthood done in the Czech Republic since 1959. Finally, the author describes the qualitative study she conducted on divorced mothers. The results show how women deal economically...

The EU's Gender Equality Policies from the Perspective of Policy Frame Analysis

Martina Kampichler

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 785-808 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.07  

This article deals with the political problematisation of gender inequalities in the context of the European Union's gender equality policies on a supranational level. Based on the concept of transnational advocacy networks (TAN), the first part of the article presents the European Women's Lobby and units at the European Commission dealing with gender equality policies as two key actors in TAN that promote gender equality issues within the structures of the EU. The article then moves on to describe policy frame analysis as an approach to analysing the way in which the gender inequalities addressed by these actors are politically problematised in three...

The Genderedness of the Philosophical Canon and the Textual 'Strategies' of Marginalisation of Women Philosophers

Zdeňka Kalnická

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 809-834 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.4.08  

This article examines the issue of the genderedness of the philosophical canon. In the theoretical part of the article the author gives evidence of the constructed nature of the philosophical canon, which in the Euro-American space is clearly androcentric. She summarises criticism to date of the philosophical canon by feminist historians of philosophy and describes the results of their research, which is directed at several areas: uncovering forgotten women philosophers of the past; analysing philosophers' views on gender; identifying the genderedness of basic philosophical categories; criticising the dualism that characterises modern philosophical...

Jana Cviková (ed.): Aká práca, taká pláca? Aspekty rodovej nerovnosti v odmeňovaní

Martina Hynková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 835-838  

Radka Dudová (ed.): Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

Michaela Bartošová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 839-842  

Lois McNay: Against Recognition

Ľubica Kobová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 843-846  

Michael S. Kimmel: The Gender of Desire. Essays on male sexuality

Lukáš Sedláček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 847-848  

Charis Thompson: Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies

Lenka Slepičková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 849-851  

Ondřej Císař: Politický aktivismus v České republice

Tereza Pospíšilová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 852-854  

Konference Alternative Futures and Popular Protest

Jiří Navrátil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 855-858  

Mezinárodní konference Society-Culture-Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Petr Lupač

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(4): 859