Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 2016 (vol. 17), issue 2
Women's Political Activism in History: Central Europe

Editorial

Women's Political Activism in History: Central Europe

Jitka Gelnarová, Marie V. Fousková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2)

Articles

Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity

Joan W. Scott

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 6-17 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.278  

Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of IdentityThe article enquires into the nature of group membership, on which the writing of the history of feminism rests. The author's approach, largely sustained by psychoanalytic reading, construes feminist movements not as the inevitable expression of the socially constructed category of women, but as the means for achieving that identity. Group membership provides the illusion of wholeness only by appealing to fantasy. Within the history of Western feminist movements, two fantasies, prevalent from the late eighteenth century, operate to consolidate feminist identity: the fantasy of the female orator...

'A Modern Apostleship of Our Values': The Women's Press of the Czech Catholic People's Party before the 1919-1920 Elections

Marie V. Fousková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 18-28 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.279  

'A Modern Apostleship of Our Values': The Women's Press of the Czech Catholic People's Party before the 1919-1920 ElectionsThe municipal elections of 1919 and the parliamentary/senate elections of 1920 gave women their first opportunity to exercise their new right to vote, and as such were important milestones in the forming of women's new status as equal citizens. The paper analyses election campaigns aimed at female voters in selected periodicals published by the Czech Catholic People's Party in 1919 and 1920: the newspaper Lid (The People) and the newly established magazine Žena (Woman). It explores the main topics and strategies of the campaign...

The Domestic Is Political? Housework in Post-War Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of the Organisation of Czechoslovak Housewives and National-Socialist MPs

Marie Láníková, Adéla Souralová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 29-41 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.280  

The Domestic Is Political? Housework in Post-War Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of the Organisation of Czechoslovak Housewives and National-Socialist MPsHousework has always been one of the main issues of feminist debates. The aim of the article is to show how the housewife became the subject of political debate. The article focuses on the feminist and political discourse surrounding household chores in post-war Czechoslovakia (1945-1947). Drawing on an analysis of the journal Our Household (Naše domácnost) and discussions in parliament, we argue that after WWII the women's movement and the National Socialists called for the recognition of...

Talking Back to November 1989: Analysing Historical Narratives from the Gender Perspective

Zuzana Maďarová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 42-52 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.281  

Talking Back to November 1989: Analysing Historical Narratives from the Gender PerspectiveEvery autumn, monolithic narratives of November 1989 emerge in the media in Slovakia. On the one hand, these narratives tend to reproduce the image of the revolution as a man-made historical event; on the other hand, they raise questions about agency, the space of politics, and the way historical memory has been constructed. The article provides a dialogue between the media narratives of the Velvet Revolution and the narratives of 16 women who were interviewed in a study. The narrative analysis is embedded in research on the feminist social movement and the...

'Thank you for leaving all your good advice at the door': On ASPEKT and Online Feminism in the Czecho-Slovak Context

Vanda Černohorská

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 53-63 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.282  

'Thank you for leaving all your good advice at the door': On ASPEKT and Online Feminism in the Czecho-Slovak ContextThis article presents a case study of the Slovak feminist organisation ASPEKT, the oldest and one of the most significant advocates of gender equality in the region. While challenging the theoretical presumption that new media and digital technologies are detaching us from our historical and socio-political context and thereby leading to greater homogenisation, it focuses on the way in which the organisation approaches and makes sense of these new platforms and tools in relation to their specific history and political beliefs. It...

Nothing for the Girls? The Gender Gap in Political Participation on Social Network Sites

Lenka Vochocová, Jaromír Mazák, Václav Štětka

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 64-75 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.283  

Nothing for the Girls? The Gender Gap in Political Participation on Social Network SitesThis paper elaborates on the authors' previous research on the relatively unexplored area of the gender aspects of online political participation. Quantitative content analysis is used to analyse communication on selected Czech political parties' Facebook profiles during the campaign for the parliamentary elections in 2013 and 2014. The article focuses on women's presence in political discussions and the relationship between their presence and the negativity of the communication in the forum, and presents a literature review offering possible explanations for...

Interview

On Advocates of Anti-modernist Emancipation: An Interview with Andrea Petö by Jitka Gelnarová

Jitka Gelnarová, Andrea Petö

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 76-80 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.284  

Articles outside the special issue

Feminine and Masculine Labels: The Influence on Prestige

Irena Smetáčková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 81-92 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.2.285  

Feminine and Masculine Labels: The Influence on PrestigeThe labour market is segregated both vertically and horizontally by gender. Some research has concluded that gender segregation results in a lower prestige being attributed to occupations labelled as feminine (Merkel et al. 2012, Formanowicz et al. 2012). On the other hand, gender-sensitive language that uses feminine labels for better contingency with social reality is considered a basic tool for gender equality. This article explores whether in Czech society there are differences in the level of prestige attached to 37 occupations labelled as feminine and masculine. The survey results show...

Reviews

Principled pragmatism - the forth pillar? (Maďarová, Z., Ostertágová, A. eds. Občianky a revolucionářky)

Hana Havelková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 93-97  

Recenze knihy Maďarová, Z., Ostertágová, A. (eds.) 2015. Občianky a revolucionárky. Ako, kedy, kde sa vylučujú nevhodné subjekty. Bratislava: Aspekt.

The Study of the Slovak 1950s visual culture from the gender perspective (Oravcová, J. Mocné ženy alebo ženy moci?)

Blanka Nyklová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 97-100  

Recenze knihy Oravcová, J. 2014. Mocné ženy alebo ženy moci? Vizuálna kultúra, reprezentácia, ideológia. Selce: Csy, s.r.o.

Science, Gender, and the Remaking of the Czech Working Class during WW

Emily Gioielli

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 100-104  

Book Review of Kučera, R. Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918. 2016. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Worlds of women´s work (Bahenská, M., Heczková, L., Musilová, D. eds. O ženské práci)

Jan Mareš

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 104-106  

Recenze knihy Bahenská, M., Heczková, L., Musilová, D. (eds.). 2014. O ženské práci. Dobové (sebe)reflexe a polemiky, Praha: Masarykův ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Information

"Let´s protect our women". Migration, security and masculinity: Report from a debate

Jitka Gelnarová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 93-95  

The second sides of history: Report from a summer school

Darja Čablová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 95-98  

The first gender congress of the Lisbon Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies - CIEG

Nina Fárová, Blanka Nyklová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 99-103  

From research of women at the labour market to feminist analysis of gendered organisations. Report from a conference

Hana Hašková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (2): 103-106