Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 2016 (vol. 17), issue 1
Embodiment and Corporeality in Feminist Theory and Research

Editorial

Embodiment and Corporeality in Feminist Theory and Research

Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Kateřina Kolářová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1)

Articles

Fleshing Out Feminist Theory

Margrit Shildrick

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 6-14 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.251  

Fleshing Out Feminist TheoryThis text traces the development and implications of strategies of remembering the body in feminist theory, after what could be termed the somaphobia of early second-wave scholarship that saw attention to bodily matters as a potential point of ambush by hostile commentators. In reinstating the corporeal, however, all the conventional tropes of modernism that have both insisted on a conceptual split between mind and body, and recognised only one form of 'proper' embodiment, have been critiqued in the light of postmodernist modes of thought. The turn away from the rigid binaries and categories characteristic of the dominant...

The 'Fat' Body in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: Compulsory Ability and Gender in Expert Discourse

Michaela Appeltová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 15-28 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.252  

The 'Fat' Body in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: Compulsory Ability and Gender in Expert Discourse This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country's late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked together to produce a socialist subject. On the first level, it analyses the expert anti-obesity discourse as an example of the expertisation of public discourse in socialist Czechoslovakia. Second, it shows the construction of obesity in contrast to bodily...

Seeing 'Red' (Orange Is the New Black) - Russian Women, US Homonationalism and New Cold War Cultures

M. Katharina Wiedlack

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 29-40 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.253  

Seeing 'Red' (Orange Is the New Black) - Russian Women, US Homonationalism and New Cold War CulturesThis article investigates visual, bodily, and cultural representations of Russian women in public media and takes the TV character 'Red' from the popular American TV show Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) as an example. The central points of discussion are the figure's racialisation and culturalisation. This article analyses how Red's body, mindset, and character are produced as Russian against the background of contemporary new Cold War discourses. It argues that Red is staged as a racialised Russian other, through the emphasis on her gendered heterosexual...

'Politics Is Nothing but Medicine on a Larger Scale': How Medical Science Helped To Establish a Political Order in 19th-Century Germany

Gundula Ludwig

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 41-52 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.254  

The paper explores the relationship between normalising bodies and normalising political orders by investigating medical discourses in Germany in the second half of the 19th century. It argues that medical scientists not only presented knowledge about bodies, health, and pathologies, but also used this knowledge to promote a specific form of political order as the 'true' and 'proper' political order. In the paper, discourses from two different medical fields are analysed. The first part focuses on physiology, because it was not only key in promoting new medicine as a natural science, but also because many of its proponents were involved in the revolution...

'Pregnancy Exam Schedule' and Risk: Narratives of Women about Pregnancy

Zuzana Pešťanská

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 53-62 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.255  

'Pregnancy Exam Schedule' and Risk: Narratives of Women about Pregnancy The paper aims to demonstrate how the techniques of disciplinary power in prenatal care affect pregnant women. I will illustrate my argument using the results of ethnographic research conducted at the Division of Risk Pregnancy at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in a hospital in Central Slovakia. The analysis of ethnographic material indicates that although pregnant women are objectified and disciplined in prenatal care, they consider and evaluate the practices of the medical staff. Prenatal care interferes with other social roles which pregnant women play in their...

Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative Space

Robert Osman, Lucie Pospíšilová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 63-76 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.256  

Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative SpaceThe paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre's production of space and Butler's...

Trans* Narratives about the Body and with the Body

Dita Jahodová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 77-88 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.257  

Trans* Narratives about the Body and with the BodyThe heteronormative order is based on the categorisation of people into men and women. The categories of man and woman are understood as given, fixed, ahistorical, and universal. Trans* identities represent a 'border area' where categories of woman, man, and binary differentiation between 'male' and 'female' bodies are redefined and re-established. This article is based on an analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with trans people in the Czech republic. The first part of the article is focused on the ways in which trans* people relate to their bodies. The second part discusses the gender aspects...

Interview

The right to pleasure: On sexual assistance for people with "disabilities".An Interview with Daniela Komanicka by Lucie Hradecka

Lucie Hradecká

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 89-95 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.258  

Reviews

Flaesh: corporeality in contemporary feminist art

Zuzana Štefková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 96-99  

Challenging transformations of the Czech reproductive medicine from the sociological perspective

Daniela Rendl

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 99-102  

Book Review of Šmídová, I., Šlesingerová, E., Slepičková, L. Games of Life. Czech Reproductive Biomedicine. Sociological Perspectives. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015.

Troubles with troubles. What does Judith Butler tell us today and why it is still meaningful to read her

Hana Porkertová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 103-105  

Book Review of Butler, J. Trampoty s rodom. Feminizmus a podrývanieidentity. Bratislava: Aspekt, 2015.

Family care for dependent seniors. Carers´ experience versus media and political discourse on care

Dana Sýkorová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 105-108  

Book Review of Dudová, R. Postarat se ve stáří.

Shadows of optimism: gender equality in the Czech Republic 2015

Jana Benešová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 108-112  

Recenze knihy:Smetáčková, Irena (ed.). 2015. Stínová zpráva o stavu genderovérovnosti v České republice v roce 2015. Praha: Česká ženská lobby.

The research of gender and identity in Slavic languages

Jana Valdrová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 108-112  

Book Review of Scheller-Boltz, D. (ed.). New Approaches to Gender and Queer Research in Slavonic Studies.

Information

My world without home

Rad Bandit

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 96-99  

Czech Women´s Lobby at the session of the CEDAW Committee

Hana Stelzerová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 99-104  

A little bit different life - conference about barriers and living conditions of migrant-women in the Czech Republic.

Romana Volejníčková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 104-108