Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6)
Gender Aspects of the Life Course

Editorial: Gender Aspects of the Life Course

Hana Hašková, Marta Vohlídalová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 899-902  

Caring for Elderly Parents: A New Commitment of the Third Age

Radka Dudová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 903-928 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.223  

The article explores the practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic from the life-course perspective, using qualitative research methodology: biographical interviews with women providing everyday care to their parents. The case of elderly care presents an opportunity to critically examine the concepts of the 'third age' and 'young old', that have figured prominently in theoretical and political debates concerning the life stage in which the need to care for one´s parents seems most likely to arise. In the 'collective story' based on the narratives of women aged 50-66 who provided everyday care for their elderly mother, I identify and describe...

Women as Care Managers: The Effect of Gender and Partnership Status on Grandparent Care for Grandchildren

Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Martina Štípková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 929-958 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.224  

Grandparental care of grandchildren is a highly gendered institution, with women being more likely to participate in it than men. This article studies whether and why care by grandmothers and grandfathers is influenced by their family arrangement. Following previous research, the authors focus on the mediating role of grandmothers in the involvement of men in caring for their grandchildren. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data about grandparents with small grandchildren (under ten years of age). The quantitative analysis is based on SHARE data and identifies whether the involvement in care depends on gender and the partnership...

Paid Caregiving in the Gendered Life Course: A Study of Czech Nannies in Vietnamese Immigrant Families

Adéla Souralová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 959-992 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.225  

Vietnamese immigrant families in the Czech Republic often recruit Czech women to look after their children. Seen in the context of the dominant scholarship, this is a quite unique case in the field of care work where the employers are immigrants, while the employees are women of the host country. Drawing upon fifteen in-depth interviews with Czech nannies, this article analyses the motivations to become a nanny in a Vietnamese family. It employs the perspective of the life course in order to understand what changes in women's biographies lie behind these decisions. The author focuses on the transitions in nannies' life cycles at the crossroads of three...

Love Will Keep Us Apart? Understanding Living Apart Together Partnerships in the Post-state-socialist Czech Republic

Lenka Formánková, Alena Křížková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 993-1022 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.226  

Living apart together (LAT) relationships are under-researched in European sociology and overlooked in Czech sociology. Based on data from 16 biographical interviews with partners living in separate households, this analysis focuses on how LAT is experienced, understood, and explained in the context of the post-state-socialist Czech Republic. Do LAT partners actively choose LAT to avoid or subvert the norm of co-residence? Or do they frame their situation as a result of external constraints and pressures? What is the role of gender norms and of the gendering of a life course in the LAT experience? Our results show the high value that current Czech...

Gender and Re-partnering after Divorce in Four Central European and Baltic Countries

Aušra Maslauskaitė, Marė Baublytė

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1023-1046 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.227  

This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of repartnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The article explores how the re-partnering chances of divorced women and men are shaped by the social divisions of gender, parenthood, age, and education within various transition- society contexts. In general, the findings support the argument about the relevance and mediating role of the societal context in the process...

Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary

Ivett Szalma, Judit Takács

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1047-1076 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.228  

This article focuses on remaining childless as a result of certain choices and constraints (not on becoming childless as a result of outliving children). There are two main aims of this study. First it seeks to reveal whether any specific features appear when (temporarily) childless people are compared with those having children in the same cohorts. It also aims to explore what kinds of factors can lead to childlessness (or more precisely, the prolongation of a childless period in life) among those men and women who, according to their self-assessment, were not prevented from having children by their own or their partner's health constraints. The analysis...

Gendered Biographies: The Czech State-Socialist Gender Order in Oral History Interviews

Martin Hájek, Barbara H. Vann

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1077-1104 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.229  

A large collection of autobiographical life story material available in oral-history data is used to examine how women and men of different socio-political groups (workers, intelligentsia, dissidents, and communist functionaries) narrate their lives in the time of state-socialist Czechoslovakia. Of particular interest is what these narratives imply for an understanding of the state-socialist gender order. The analysis combines quantitative (the frequency of word co-occurrences) and qualitative (a hermeneutic reading of text fragments) approaches. The results provide evidence that empirically supports what has previously been suggested in the literature:...

Angus Deaton: The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

Alexandru Daniel Moise

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1105-1107  

Greta Krippner: Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance

Martino Comelli

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1108-1113  

Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Hendrik Theine

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1114-1116  

Kathleen Thelen: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1117-1119  

Alice Vadrot: The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity

Esther Turnhout, Maud Borie, Alejandro Esguerra

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1120-1122  

Peter Lozoviuk (ed.): Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Discourse of the 20th Century: The Contribution of Intellectuals from the Czech Lands to the Study of Collective Identities

Lenka Kissová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1123-1124  

Mihai Varga: Worker Protests in Post-Communist Romania and Ukraine. Striking with Tied Hands

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1125-1128  

Emergent Paradigms: Current Issues and Debates in Cultural Legal Studies: Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of Law, 3-9 August 2015

Tomáš Ledvinka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(6): 1129-1132  

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