Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 179-183
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 175-179
Information about the special issue of the journal: ‘Climate Action: Transforming Infrastructure, Cultivating Attentiveness, Practicing Solidarity’ – a special issue of the journal Sociální studia 19 (1 /2022)
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 167-174
Book review of Scheller-Boltz, D. / Reuther, T. (eds). 2019. Language Policies in the Light of Antidiscrimination and Political Correctness. Special Issue. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 84.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 140-166 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.020
This paper deals with a corpus-linguistic analysis of different text/media types in Slovene with the aim of finding out whether or not any of the communication channels covered by the corpora employed in our analysis serve as a means of unification against the concept of gender, thereby serving as a catalyst for creating and maintaining (new) speech communities. We aim to determine this by extracting the two most commonly misused concepts (terms) in Slovene, i.e. gender theory and gender ideology, and analysing their use in three different corpora of contemporary Slovene: the reference corpus Gigafida 2.0, the corpus of user-generated...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 114-139 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.015
This paper explores how a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach can be utilised to investigate representations of gender as well as potential gender bias in radiology reporting, which constitutes a form of professional, medical discourse. The database collected for this purpose consists of three specialised German sub-corpora (332,901 cranial, thoracic, and whole-body computed tomographies, with more than 61 million tokens), which were extracted from a larger medical corpus called MedCorpInn that was built as part of an interdisciplinary project conducted jointly by the University of Innsbruck and Innsbruck Medical University. As...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 82-113 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.022
This paper explores novel ways in which Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies (DHA – the discourse-historical approach), and Feminist Linguistics can be fruitfully combined and thus contribute to a new awareness and knowledge concerning language and gender in discourse. For the paper a large heritage corpus of texts on mountaineering (Alpenwort – Corpus of the Austrian Alpine Club Journal) is explored, which constitutes a type of discourse that has yet rarely been studied in the abovementioned fields. The corpus was used to analyse gendered nomination with the following questions in mind: What frequently occurring...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 62-81 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.013
Criticising the use of the generic masculine, feminist and gender linguists have proposed different alternatives. In the Czech context, the following three types of alternatives can be distinguished: (1) feminisation, (2) neutralisation and paraphrases, and (3) making non-binary persons linguistically more visible. Empirical studies on the usage frequency of these alternatives, however, are lacking. This paper addresses this issue by analysing agentive nouns and the feminisation of surnames in selected Czech newspapers. The results show that in references to individual women almost exclusive use is made of feminine expressions. Mixed-gender groups...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 41-61 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.018
This paper deals with the current social context in which the gender-balanced functions of the Slovak language are being created. The rules that exist for creating and using gender-based Slovak are at odds with contemporary society. This paper examines the mechanism of language changes including gender-balanced language and makes observations about how they are perceived within the communication community in particular. Language is approached as a construct that is a reflection of society and social processes, while at the same time language influences some of these processes in return. Language changes occur more slowly than social ones, or rather,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 21-39 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.014
Personal proper names are part of a community’s language inventory. To a large extent, they verbalise gender stereotypes, expectations and norms, power relations, political circumstances, and how minorities are treated. In my paper I analyse the current socio-onomastic representation of gender-neutral names in the context of naming practices in the Czech Republic. More specifically, I examine what factors might explain the decreased use of these names, which, paradoxically, differ from other names in that they have an extended functionality. From a linguistic and legal perspective I inquire into how Czech naming practices stigmatise the sexual...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 3-19 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.021
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Review of book Lamont, E. The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date
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Review of book Sokolová, V. Queer Encounters with Communist Power
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Review of book Artwińska, A., Mrozik, A. Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 99-122 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.007
The conflict between the pro-life and pro-choice movements over the question of the right to abortion can be assigned to the category of a (global) cultural war. Croatia is a region where significant desecularisation tendencies can be observed, and where there has been a return of religion into the public space. It is a region in which the Roman Catholic Church and the conservative movement intervene in the debates on the right to abortion and tend to shape the public discourse on this issue. The article responds to the debate about the existence of culture wars in the Croatian context. To establish the Croatian context of this situation, the text...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 73-98 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.006
This article focuses on the cordel as an idiosyncratic manifestation of Brazilian popular culture. It sets the results of original research on cordel gender representations within the specific social, cultural, and political contexts in which they originated/emerged. The article is based on research grounded in cultural studies and this discipline’s insistence on the critical importance of race, gender, and religion. The author argues that cordels – poems printed in cheap booklets with an illustrated cover and marketed to the mass public – offer important insights into existing social and gender norms in Brazil. Whereas in the past...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 57-72 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.005
In his contribution, the author presents the concept of a cabinet of (pop)cultural curiosities, which is based on the prefigurement of Mannerist and Baroque cabinets, or the so-called Wunderkammer, Kunstkammer, etc. He uses this concept to interpret the work of the Czech rap band Čokovoko, relying on the theory and history of the camp phenomenon, which is based on aesthetic transgressions, ironic attitudes and the stretching of the boundaries between taste and tastelessness. The metaphor of the cabinet of curiosities allows to describe and explore the specific ways in which the peculiarly frivolous play with themes concerning women and their stereotypical...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 32-56 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.004
The article attempts to capture the current value shifts taking place in the game industry by looking at the debate on the contemporary digital game Kingdom Come: Deliverance by the Czech development studio Warhorse. For the purposes of contextualisation, the article also reflects on a case known as Gamergate, which served to highlight certain issues in the conception of games and questions about representation and diversity in games. Digital games are no longer the domain of young men alone as gamers now come from all genders and many age groups. Through a gender analysis of this digital game and a discussion/analysis of the controversy surrounding...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 13-31 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.003
This study focuses on how the Caribbean diaspora is reflected in the novel Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by the New York–based Dominican artist Josefina Báez. Through dialogues and anecdotes the author depicts the everyday life of a community of women living in an apartment building located in a Hispanic neighbourhood in New York. In a close reading, I read the apartment building, called ‘Ni é’, as a metaphor of a glocal community. The novel can thus be read through the lens of the postcolonial debate about centre and periphery. I also analyse the work through the lens of the thirdspace theory, which is an especially important...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (1): 3-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.002
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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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Review of book 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