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Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 2-15 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.368 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 16-34 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.369
In the recent past, decolonial proposals have become more and more important for feminisms of the Americas, that is, for Latin American and U.S. Latina/o theories and practices negotiating the significance of gender. Decolonial feminist thought proposes multiple ways of deconstructing coloniality (the ongoing effects of colonisation), and distances itself from postcolonial feminisms by emphasising not only its own unique, historically diverse geopolitical situatedness in the Americas, but also discordance with the assumption of the postcolonial "silenced subaltern female subject". The article traces some of the conceptual travels of a decolonial feminist...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 36-54 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.370
Reyna Grande's 2012 memoir The Distance Between Us exemplifies the ongoing influence of the Latin American testimonio on contemporary life writing by immigrants to the United States from the Southern hemisphere, in order to effect social change. Specifically, Grande's text aims to mobilise readers to facilitate immigration reform for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors. The memoir further showcases how Mexican immigrant writers such as Grande continue genre-blending traditions in Chicana feminist literature in an effort to find an appropriate expression for their complex experiences with migration...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 56-77 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.371
Employing hybridity as a tool of postcolonial critique, and gender as an analytical category, the article discusses the hybrid characteristics of three paradigmatic representations of Chicana femininity, i.e. Cortés' interpreter La Malinche, the religious icon La Virgen de Guadalupe, and the mythological child-murderer La Llorona. Reading against the power structures of androcentrism and colonialism, the text analyses Chicana re-evaluations and re-interpretations of these figures so that they no longer function as fundaments of defamation of women and/or their sexuality, but as empowering role-models for contemporary Chicanas. Motherhood and the "loss"...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 78-95 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.372
This article analyses experiences of crafstmanship within a group of women weavers. It looks at the process of mastering the art of textile-making amidst the tensions of a creative act, living on the margins and striving for recognition. The research methodology aims at closing the gap between researchers and the researched. The theoretical-methodological arguments are based on participatory research combined with the feminist perspective of giving visibility to the women´s history, which involves an act of research done as (self-)formation. Participant observation, discussion groups and talking circles allowed the collection of material for the analysis...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 96-126 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.373
Postcolonial theories have been applied in various contexts all over the globe. The article deals with the ways postcolonial thought, especially in combination with gender concerns, has been used in Finnish literary studies. I look at the broader problem of applying postcolonial theories in new contexts and pay close attention to the Nordic European space and its special features. I map the process through which postcolonial theories arrived in Finnish literary studies and then show how postcolonial thought has been applied, in a gender-conscious way, in two particular cases. The first one is the study of the Sámi, the indigenous population of the...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 128-154 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.374
This text explores the affective politics of race and disability that underpin the post-socialist developments in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I interrogate "mental retardation", as a discursive and material practice of differentiating human life according to presumed value. To make the argument, the text follows practices of "mental retardation" through several discursive and material locations: cultural imaginations of "ferality", controversy spiked by the use of "protective"/"cage" beds in institutional care and the concept of lege artis, i.e. the principle of necessary and (medically) possible care. Travelling through these locations, I argue,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 155-158
Recenze knihy M. Michlin, J. - P. Rocchi (eds.). Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 159-163
Recenze knihy K. Kovalová (ed.). Černošská feministická literární kritika
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2017, 18 (2): 163-170
Recenze knihy Latour, B. Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem
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