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"Emotional Work in Club X: Emic Perspective on the Profession of a Stripper"
Lavičková, Tereza ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on the emotional labor of strippers from Prague's strip club X. I see striptease as a profession that requires regulation of emotions in order to inspire appropriate feelings in customers. In order to find out how the employees perform their emotional labor while looking at it from their own perspective, I carried out an ethnographic research in the club X over several months to observe all the forms and aspects of its strippers' everyday emotional labor. Through an analysis of field notes I acquired in the course of my participant observation together with data from 12 interviews with the employees and managers working in the club, I examine the following points: their work conditions, the way strippers perform their emotional labor and deal with it, and also what consequences this job has for them and the club itself. In the final chapters of the thesis, I share my standpoint on the club X being a part of the so-called rape culture and the opportunities to transform the club's work conditions in order to make its work environment safer and the emotional work of their employees easier, all at once.
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Literary analysis of M. Viewegh's writing: A Novel For Women and Novel For Men from a gender perspective
Lavičková, Tereza ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Kalnická, Zdeňka (referee)
This master thesis deals with feminist literary analysis of the works of writer Michal Viewegh, specifically his two prose novels Román pro ženy and Román pro muže using a method called resistant reading with a critical gender analysis and subsequent final comparison. This thesis consists of two parts, from the theoretical - methodological, which outlines the theoretical basis for the next analytical part. The key concepts are in the first part the researches of literary critics on Michal Viewegh, theories of Judith Fetterley, Elaine Showalter and Janice A. Radway. Furthermore, there are the theoretical basis of gender, and how gender stereotypes are constructed. This section is mainly based on the theorists Blanka Knotková - Čapková, Annis Pratt, Claire M. Renzetti and Daniel J. Curran and founder of analytical psychology Carl Gustav Jung. In describing femininity and masculinity are central lines theories of Naomi Wolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Kimmel and Robert Bly. The analytical part is the critical uncovering of gender stereotypes and power discourse. The conclusion is made by the final critical comparison of both novels. Key words: resistant reading, literary canon, gender stereotypes, masculinity, femininity, beauty myth, male domination, power
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