Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 2015 (vol. 16), issue 2
Transnational Feminism

Editorial

Transnational Feminism

Zuzana Uhde

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2)

Articles

Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 4-16 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.127.2.216  

Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical CritiqueThe article is a reflection on the neoliberal knowledge economy, the traffic in antiracist feminist theory, and the way my work has been read (lost or found in translation) and has crossed geopolitical and racial/cultural borders. It comments as well on the development of my intellectual project in relation to my location in the US academy and the intellectual and political communities that have made the work possible. The larger frame I seek to examine using responses to my work in three sites - Sweden, Mexico, and Palestine - is the way feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist...

Inspirations of Transnational Feminism to Transnational Feminist Social Work

Radka Janebová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 17-29 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.127.2.217  

Inspirations of Transnational Feminism to Transnational Feminist Social WorkAbstract: The mission of social work is to promote human rights, social justice and social change. One of the currents of social work, transnational feminist social work analyses complex oppression based on racism, hierarchical nationalism, class exploitation and sexist control of women in different times and locations in the era of globalization. The paper aims to reflect on inspiration that transnational feminism can offer to transnational feminist social work and possible ways of social work in the era of globalization. Transnational Feminist Social Work originated...

"Not ready to be thrown on the scrap heap" or the paradoxes of care migration from the Czech Republic to Austria

Andrea Kuchyňková, Petra Ezzeddine

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 30-41 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.218  

"Not ready to be thrown on the scrap heap" or the paradoxes of care migration from the Czech Republic to Austria Abstract: The paper focuses on the social situation and social practices of female care migrants (at the age of 50 and above) from the South Moravia (the region of Mikulov, Břeclav) who migrate for work to Austria as domestic workers-caregivers for seniors at regular intervals (circular migration). The main aim of the text is to argue that translocal female migrants paradoxically perceive their labour migration as a specific form of emancipation, despite the fact that they work in the so-called live-in-service jobs (where they live and...

Essay

The Surrogate's Womb

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 42-52 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.219  

The Surrogate's WombThe essay focuses on reproductive tourism and estrangement not only from our products and people who produce what we consume but also from our emotions and our intimate lives. Concretely, the author focuses on experience of commercial surrogates in India - poor women in whom a couple's embryo is implanted and who carry that baby to term for domestic or foreign clients. Drawing on interviews, the author analyses the world's largest womb rental service and how - out of financial need - the surrogate manages her emotional ties to her own body.

Interview

People Know What They Need. An Interview with Women Activists in Zambia

Zuzana Uhde, Tomáš Tožička

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 53-59 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.220  

People Know What They Need. An Interview with Women Activists in Zambia The eight Millennium Development Goals agreed upon at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 approached their deadline in 2015. They focused on reducing extreme poverty and hunger in the world as well as building foundations for social development by providing primary education, basic health care or employment to the global poor. Although they provided some tools to combat human suffering, the MDGs were also criticized for being disembedded from local activities and lacking strong objectives and analytical power. These shortcomings were to be overcome in the new post-2015 development...

Articles outside the special issue

Until What Age Can a Woman Be Fertilized? A Debate on the Legislative Regulation of Assisted Reproduction in the Czech Parliament

Lenka Slepičková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 60-72 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.221  

Until What Age Can a Woman Be Fertilized? A Debate on the Legislative Regulation of Assisted Reproduction in the Czech Parliament Assisted reproduction has shifted from being an experimental technique to becoming a part of mainstream reproduction medicine. It has become a common and increasingly prevalent method of procreation in the 21st century. The boundaries of what is and is not normal in reproduction (and therefore desired, in the foucauldian sense) are not determined by what is medically possible; rather, they are bound by the legislation, public demand, and ethical and religious norms. Effort to redefine the boundaries determined by the...

The Transition to Motherhood: Plans versus Reality in the Working Lives of Women with Tertiary-Education

Olga Nešporová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 73-84 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2015.16.2.222  

The Transition to Motherhood: Plans versus Reality in the Working Lives of Women with Tertiary-Education The article provides a detailed insight into a critical stage in the life course of young women. It focuses on the transition to first-time motherhood among women with tertiary education in heterosexual dual-earner couples in the Czech Republic. The plans of pregnant women regarding their working lives following the birth of their first child are compared with the subsequent realities of their lives (the first eighteen months of their motherhood). The study is based on longitudinal qualitative research conducted between 2011 and 2014. The research...

Reviews

Feminist contribution to global justice

Zuzana Uhde

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 85-88  

Feminist contribution to global justice. Book review of Jaggar, A. (ed.). 2014. Gender and Global Justice. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Surpassing Borders: Metamorphoses of Love and Family

Hana Maříková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 88-90  

Book Review of Beck, U., Beck-Gernsheim, E. Dálková láska.

Transformations of Work in Global Capitalism: From the Global Factory to Global Home

Zuzana Uhde

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 90-92  

Book Review of Kobová, Ľ. ed. Feministky hovoria o práci

Reflections on Crisis, Revolution and Transformation

Ondřej Štěch

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 93-95  

Book Review of Dinuš, P., Hohoš, L., Hrubec, M. a kol. Revoluce nebo transformace

Think Postcolonially

Tomáš Profant

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 95-99  

Book Review of Havránek, V., Lánský, O. eds. Postkoloniální myšlení IV.

Is Motherhood Nature?

Romana Volejníčková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 100-102  

Book Review of Badinter, E. The Conflict.

Information

Report from the Conference "Sex and Capital"

Blanka Nyklová, Marta Vohlídalová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 85-91  

Contradictions: Notions about European Future. Conference Report

Radka Dudová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 92-94  

Feminist Research of Politics: Report from the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender

Ľubica Kobová, Markéta Mottlová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 95-99  

Report from the Workshop Body and Corporeality in Feminist Theory and Research

Blanka Nyklová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 100-101  

The Issue of Gender and Diversity at the Conference of the European Academy of Management

Marie Dlouhá

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 102-106  

The Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics

Alena Křížková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 102-103  

Gender Summit: Gender in Research, Research Context and Results

Hana Tenglerová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2015, 16 (2): 103-105