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Writing outside of logocentrism (Discourse, gender, text)
Matonoha, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Kalnická, Zdeňka (referee)
This thesis aims to examine the nature of the relationship between the kind of textual politics, here referred to as a "women's writing", and the dominant discursive practice of our culture, whose logic and functioning is best encapsulated in the Derridean term "phallogocentrism" which can be defined by variety of its characteristics (e.g. by the idea of a singular, fully controlable meaning, the adherence to the metaphysics of presence, simplisticly instrumental understanding of language, the claim for universal rationality, simplisticly homogeneus understaning of essentially complex and messy reality, ideology of a seemlessly homogeneus, fully controlable Self, anthropocentrism, the unacknowledged privileging of its own epistemic perspective etc.). "Women's writing", then, is here defined as that kind of writing which locates itself outside the domain and logic of a phallogocentric discourse, trying to challenge and undermine its hegemonic status. In this respect, "women's writing" is not delimited by the sex of an author, but by his/her gendered subjectivity, by his/her position within the discursive formation and his/her attitude to hegemonic language practices. Thus, besides the Czech writers Milada Součková, Věra Linhartová, Sylvie Richterová and Daniela Hodrová, the writing of a male author Bohumil...
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Medial presentation of children contention with international dimension
Peterková, Hana ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The subject of the dissertation is quantitative content analysis and critical discoursive analysis of media presentation of contention about children with international dimension from gender perspective in context of cause of Sára Barao. The main intention is to analyze if and in what way is in daily press discussing the problem of contention about children with international dimension reflected and strenghtened maternal myth and if discussion strenghtens in explicit and implicite way gender stereotypes regarding picture of mother, father and child. Further task is to analyze how and in what way the discussion contributes to gender stereotypical strenghtening of divided spheres - the division into the private sphere attributed to woman and public sphere connected with man. The construction of the picture of mother, father and child is analyzed also in relation to specific journalist practises and the attention is paid to the question how the daily press constructs discussion where the main participants are members of private sphere. In relation to significant role of media in current society it is possible to assume that the daily press can be a source of information about uderstanding of motherhood in our society.
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An Analysis of Erben's Bouquet within the Context of Feminist Literary Theories
Kynčlová, Tereza ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis An Analysis of Erben's Bouquet within the Context of Feminist Literary Theories is the first study within Czech literary criticism dedicated to this canonical collection of poetry that has been carried out from a gender perspective. In its analysis of the gender aspects contained in Erben's collection, the thesis mostly draws on methods introduced by Anglo-American feminist literary criticism during the seventh and eighth decades of the 20th century. The thesis then touches upon the potentials of poststructuralist theory for addressing gender analyses of this particular collection of poetry. Fetterley's resistant reading and reader response criticism that investigate the relationship between readers - female readers particularly - and literature, especially within the broad context of both the patriarchal society based on hierarchical gender organization and the specificities of women's lived exeperience, are the major methodological and theoretical points of departure of the thesis. The author of the thesis positions herself in an opposition towards the existing interpretations of Erben's poems that permeate the theoretical works of major literary critics which she sees as based on unreflected reproduction of gender stereotypes. The author seeks to subvert misogynist representations of...
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Gender stereotypes in the chosen fairy tales by Božena Němcová and Karel Jaromír Erben
Belisová, Eva ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
I'm engaging in gender stereotypes in selected fairy tales by Božena Němcová and Karel Jaromír Erben in my dissertation. There is a gender discourse incorporated in their fairy tales, which serves as the basis for assumption of gender roles and fairy tales are becoming significant factor by gender socialization. Using feminist literary analysis I analyzed chosen fairy tales by author and authoress and classified characters from the gender perspective. I was focusing more thoroughly on four typologicaly different fairy tales (two by Němcová, two by Erben) and I was trying to demonstrate different conception and representation of femininity in them. I was investigating, which gender stereotypes are submitted to children, what kind of material is in that way submitted them to construct their gender identity and to accept gender role and whether fairy tales reproduce patriarchal gender order. Although in sporadic cases some characters exceed conventional gender roles, issues which resulted from my analysis showed, that fairy tales mostly reproduce gender inequality of patriarchal society and represent characters in gender stereotyped way.
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Men's antifeminist identity - critical analysis of men's critique of feminist men.
Pavlas, Tomáš ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The general question of this diploma thesis is the compatibility of present ideas of masculinity with democracy. The thesis narrows down the field of study onto men's antifeminist identity and maps out the variety within men's antifeminist movement. The methodology of the presented research is based on semantic and discursive analyses. The identity of antifeminist men is not studied independently, but by the means of a critical analysis of the antifeminist men's construction of their relationship to feminist men. The analyzed material consists of texts in which men are critical of feminist men. The thesis shows in what ways antifeminist men use diverse discursive techniques to construct various images of feminist men, images of themselves, and images of their mutual relationships. Great attention is also paid to a critical analysis of such constructions delivered from the perspective of gender studies and men's studies; the position of the author of this thesis is also explicitly acknowledged as a departure point for a critical reflection of the discussed images, their relationships and mechanisms of their construction. Further, a collection of social practices by means of which antifeminist men contribute to the construction of "reality" are introduced. The studied case of antifeminist identity is put...
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Mapping out the discourses of Czech gender literary criticism
Matonoha, Jan
The paper aims to map out the state of art and the dynamics of discourses of Czech gender literary criticism and to provide a critical assessment of existing body of its work. While some blinds spots and low resolutions can be detected namely in terms of its under-theorised conceptual apparatuses it works with, in sum, the paper finds the field of gender literary criticism as a reasonably developing area.
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