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Review of book Bobel, C. The Managed Body; Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South
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Recenze knihy Lamb, S., Gilbert, J. eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence
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Review of book Allen, L. Sexuality Education and New Materialism: Queer Things
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Review of book Bartholomaeus, C., Riggs, D. W. Transgender People and Education
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 139-169 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.023
This paper introduces a unique and comprehensive sociological analysis of same-sex partnerships in the Czech Republic, especially in the legally recognised (though limited) form of civil unions (registered partnerships - RP). The analysis combines multiple data sources and methodological approaches, drawing on administrative data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (n=2710), secondary quantitative data from the Czech Statistical Office and Public Opinion Research Centre/CVVM, and original quantitative (n=882) and qualitative (n=48) data. Focusing on the heteronormative framing of the issue, two main aspects come to the forefront: gender and LGBT...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 110-137 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.022
The Covid-19 pandemic had a particularly severe impact on people in a vulnerable position, such as solo mothers living alone with their children. In this article I use an intersectional approach in order to understand how their different positions in life affected their ability to cope with the crisis situation. I present a longitudinal qualitative study of the situation of solo mothers in the Czech Republic during the Covid-19 crisis, based on repeated interviews with women from three Czech regions. The preliminary findings indicate that a crucial factor in the women's ability to cope with increased care responsibilities was the kind of job they had...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 87-109 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.021
In the Czech Republic, it is women who are usually the primary carers of elderly family members, while men tend to be less involved and perform more concrete, visible care tasks. In this article I focus on the cases of men acting as the primary carer for a wife with dementia at home in cooperation with respite services. The data are drawn from an analysis of participant observations in the carers' households and from an analysis of semi-structured interviews with the men acting as primary carers and with respite services workers. This article shows the repertoires of care that have been used by men as caregivers and points out the limitations attached...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 71-86 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.020
This article presents an analysis of the current (in)justice in childcare for children under three years of age in the Czech Republic by examining shifts in family and social policy after 1989. The paper compares three ways of redressing injustice: redistribution, recognition, and political representation in terms of domains of social injustice. Through the prism of Nancy Fraser's three-dimensional theory, the article analyses forms of redress in the economic, cultural, and political spheres. This approach aims to reveal the complexity of inequalities in childcare for children under three years of age and highlight the positive and negative aspects...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 45-70 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.019
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which LGBTQ campers and counsellors are shaped by and shape summer camp. Summer camps are often the place where many US youth begin to learn about sex and sexuality. It is a unique and important spatial locale that is understudied in both sexualities and wider sociological enquiry. To better understand the impact of summer camp experiences on sexualities, the study analyses retrospective interviews with former campers about their experiences at a summer camp, as well as podcasts and blogs. We address two key areas of camp life: sexual firsts and being openly queer at camp. Many campers are less likely...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 28-44 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.018
This article analyses the discourses of anti-gender movements circulating in Brazil and Argentina. The aim of our research is to determine the regularities and specificities of these movements. Specifically, it analyses the representations that are mobilised in the political sphere about gender and sexuality and the role that is attributed to the school institution in these matters. Therefore, an analysis is made of the discussion relating to legislative bills and the parliamentary debates that took place on the Escola Sem Partido (ESP) in Brazil between 2014 and 2017 and on the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE) in Argentina in 2018. The focus...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 11-27 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.017
This qualitative study uses interpretive political and discourse analyses methods to examine how the lack of a sex education policy in the educational curriculum in Kazakhstan and the presence of alternative subjects that focus on the 'moral' education of students is connected to the country's nation-building efforts. Using a feminist critique of gendered nationalism and heteronormativity, the text argues that the lack of comprehensive sex education in the country is consistent with the positioning of women as passive subjects whose bodies are weaponised to delineate cultural and national differences of the group. Kazakhstan's authoritarian government...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (2): 3-10 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.016
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 3-15 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.015
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 213-215 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.004
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Recenze knihy: Orgad, S. 2019. Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality. New York: Columbia University Press.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 205-206 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.001
Recenze knihy: Hearn, Jeff, Parkin, Wendy. 2021. Age at work: Ambiguous boundaries of organizations, organizing and ageing.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 202-205 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.011
Recenze knihy: Acquaviva, K. D. 2017. LGBTQ – Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 178-200 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.007
Later-life learning continues to remain well under the radar as far as feminist theorising and empirical research are concerned. This exclusion is surprising considering that older women make up the majority of learners in later-life learning programmes. This essay has three objectives: to present the available knowledge on older women and learning given that this information remains undocumented; to apply a feminist critique to the mainstream literature on older adult learning, with a special reference to the University of the Third Age (U3A) and Women's Institutes (WI); and to promote an understanding of the similarities and diversities of older...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 148-177 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.006
The article explores the meanings of gender, embodiment, and ageing in the work of public transport drivers. This profession is been strongly masculinised: men outnumber women and driving has traditionally been understood as men's work. The article asks the following questions: how have the working conditions in this profession changed and what does this mean for the people who perform it and for their interpretations of the work? What does the process of prolonging working lives on one side and technological development on the other bring to this profession? This is a case study of a 'man's job' in the situation where the working population is ageing...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 127-147 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.010
This article deals with the phenomenon of grandfamilies. It sets out to determine what the existing literature reports on the issue of grandparents in the position of surrogate parents, and to introduce the topic of grandparents as it has been examined in international sociological studies published in the past decade, thereby embedding the topic into the sociology of ageing and the sociology of the family. It also identifies key concepts and gaps in research. It employs the scoping review method, and the articles assessed in the scoping review were analysed according to their country of origin, research methods, and the concepts they employed. The...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 108-126 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.009
This paper explores the relationships of affection and duty that elderly Roman mothers established with their adult daughters and sons. Analysing the written sources, it shows what duties adult children had towards their mothers in consideration for the care received during childhood, and how mothers demanded this support. The paper looks at the affective relationships between mothers and their offspring and highlights the importance of older women for the cohesion of the Roman family. This study draws five main conclusions. First, that care practices performed by Roman mothers gave them a privileged position in old age. Second, that the survival of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 78-106 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.014
This paper shows that the universal female survival advantage evades all the countries of South Asia, except Sri Lanka. Consequently, contrary to the global trend, these countries have more older men than older women in their populations. In view of this, the paper first develops a theoretical model (using the life-course perspective) to explain the mechanisms behind the possible persistence of this female deficit, i.e. the (older) missing women phenomenon, and highlights why this model may apply to South Asian countries. This discussion addresses the higher mortality of females' compared to males at each stage of the life course that culminate in...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 59-77 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.012
Although important demographic shifts have generated both an interest and profound transformations in sociocultural interpretations of ageing and old age, the experience of growing older is still perceived negatively and is often measured according to how successfully people adapt to the current Western ideals of later life. In the light of recent research on cultural and literary representations of ageing, this article critically addresses contemporary American writer Erica Jong's mid-life and later works from feminist and gender perspectives. It shows how the author's writings contest the narrative of decline and ageism and incorporate some aspects...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 36-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.013
The concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge on the patterns of exclusion from social relationships among men and women in later adulthood is even less advanced. Therefore, we developed a multidimensional scale for measuring an individual's level of embeddedness in social relationships and examined the gender patterns of social embeddedness. We applied latent class analysis to survey data collected...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 16-35 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.005
Articles Being socially connected is a universal human need, but a substantial number of older men and women are or become excluded from these connections in later life. Exclusion from social relations (ESR) is unwanted as it undermines people's ability to lead a healthy, active, and independent life. Policies to reduce this form of exclusion have been limited in effectiveness, due in part to a broader lack of knowledge about the dynamics of social exclusion in older ages and the intersection of social exclusion with gender constructions. To advance our understanding of ESR in later life, we develop a heuristic model based on theories and previous...