Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 2013 (vol. 14), issue 2
Open Borders of Sexualities

Open Borders of Sexualities

Zdeněk Sloboda, Dagmar Marková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2)

The Invention of Heterosexuality

Jonathan Ned Katz

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 4-13  

The paper maps the history of the term and ideas about heterosexuality in the United States of America since the second half of the 19th century until the 20th century. Katz focuses primarily on the construction of the concept and terminological apparatus of heterosexuality (and homosexuality) in the medical discourse, its entry into the social mind and historical changes in the subsequent periods.

'What will become of the kids?' On the Risk of Oppression of Same-Sex Parents in Social Work

Radka Janebová, Tereza Břízová, Ivana Velčovská

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 14-26  

Social work as an institutionalized profession aims to promote and defend human rights and social justice regardless of gender, sexual orientation and other grounds. Rooted in Christianity, it is partly performed by religious organizations and religious people. Consequently, conservative values may orient the profession, thus conflicting with the rights of lesbians and gays. The aim of the article is to present the risks of social worker´s oppressive action toward same-sex parents, and to suggest possibilities how to avoid such ethical misconduct. First, we present a dilemma of social work arising from the tension between ethical principles of equality...

Spatiality, institutionalization and contextuality of heteronormativity: Study of non-heterosexual identity negotiation in Czechia

Michal Pitoňák

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 27-40  

The article focuses on the relationship between space and sexuality, phenomena rarely studied together in the Czech social sciences. I use heteronormativity to describe the power polarization of largely socially constructed institutionalized relations between various sexualities. These polarizations are also inherently spatial, thus geographical phenomena. First, I focus on the discussion of various theoretical standpoints linked with foundations of heteronormativity. Secondly, I critically rethink the linear view of non-heterosexual identity development and discuss non-linear alternatives of 'passing' and sexual 'closetedness'. I then incorporate...

Matter trouble - Judith Butler and/or the new materialism?

Hana Porkertová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 41-51  

Matter trouble - Judith Butler and/or the new materialism?Abstract: The article presents the contemporary feminist stream of new materialism, and compares and contracts it with the linguistic branch of poststructuralism which has been criticized by new materialism for neglecting matter. The paper first discusses points of departure these two streams share, specifically, a critique of Western metaphysics, and in particular the fundamental interrogation of dualities and the idea of a stable inner essence in Western thought. Consequently, the article shortly introduces the starting points of new materialism and presents Judith Butler's ideas on matter...

PRIDE: Promotion of homosexualism, manifestation of pride, or big party? The interview with Czeslaw Walek, a director of Prague Pride, and with Romana Schlesinger, a director of Bratislava Pride, by Zdeněk Sloboda

Zdeněk Sloboda, Czeslaw Walek, Romana Schlesinger

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 52-55  

PRIDE: Promotion of homosexualism, manifestation of pride, or big party? The interview with Czeslaw Walek, a director of Prague Pride, and with Romana Schlesinger, a director of Bratislava Pride, by Zdeněk Sloboda

What can queer and feminist theory offer to each other (Review of Marinucci, M. Feminism is Queer

Blanka Nyklová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 67-69  

To be seen, therefore to be (Review of Fejes, N., Balogh, A. P. Queer Visibility in Post socialist Cultures)

Eva Chlumská

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 70-72  

Non-heterosexual children of their era (Review of Himl, P., Seidl, J., Schindler, F. (eds.) "Miluji tvory svého pohlaví")

Jiří Procházka

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 73  

About sexuality in an independent and constructivist way (Review of Marková, D. O sexualitě, sexuálnej morálke a súčasných partnerských vzťahoch)

Ivan Lukšík

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 77  

Uncertain local walk into history and present of masculinity (Review of Švaříčková Slabáková, R., Kohoutová, J., Pavlíčková, R., Hutečka, J. a kol. Konstrukce maskulinní identity v minulosti a současnosti)

Jan Seidl, Zdeněk Sloboda

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 78-80  

The point of view of social construction of dis/ability and handicap (Review of Kolářová, K. (eds.) Jinakost - postižení - kritika)

Romana Volejníčková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 84-85  

Uncertain prospects of feminism (Review of Walby, S. Future of Feminism)

Lenka Formánková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 88-89  

Coloured Pallet of Sexualities

Dagmar Marková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 67-69  

The conference Sexuality - different perspective

Gabriel Bianchi

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 74-76  

Transgender Me: report from the world in between

Vítězslav Slíva

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 77  

A little attention to sexuality in pop culture

Zdeněk Sloboda

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 81-83  

Report from the 11th conference of European Sociological Association Crisis, Critique and Change

Marcela Linková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 86-87  

Theory and practice of care in France

Radka Dudová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 90  

Sexual aggression and victimization between young people: report from Amsterdam

Dagmar Marková, Katarína Glosová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 91  

Organizations providing services to one-parent families in Great Britain

Radka Dudová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 92  

Gender context of the pension system reforms in the Czech Republic

Radka Dudová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2013, 14 (2): 56-66  

The paper discusses changes that have occurred in the Czech pension system since 1996 in terms of their gender impact. The pension system is considered in a broader socio-economic context. I take into account different working careers of men and women and their unequal share in unpaid care work. I analyse individual steps of the reform (the criteria for entitlement to a retirement pension, changes in the mechanism for calculating pension benefits, and the newly established private second pillar) and show the impact of these changes on women and men in retirement. I conclude that although the reform is presented as gender-neutral just because it maintains...