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Know yourself: write yourself! Queer subjects and the constructions of gender and sexual identity at the turn of the 19th century
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Mergenthal, Silvia (referee) ; Schülting, Sabine (referee)
1 Kateřina Kolářová Department of English and American Studies Anglo-American Literary Studies (English Resumé) Know Yourself: Write Yourself! Queer Subjects and the Constructions of Gender and Sexual Identity at the Turn of the 19th Century The thesis examines the normative structures that shape and pre-determine the construction of the gender and sexual identities at the turn of the nineteenth century in the British context. The focus of the study is the critical investigation of the binary - heteronormative - logic that governs the formation of these identities. The concern with gender intelligibility (and the "matrix of intelligibility") reflects the thesis's critical engagement with the technology that subjects the possibilities of identification, and in fact forms of subjectivity, to logic of specific governance. The second overarching concern of the thesis represents the attempt to encompass the diversity of the practices that the individual queer selves devise in the process of self-writing and making sense of themselves. Bringing together three diverse case studies - based upon the autobiographic texts of John Addington Symonds (1840-93), 'Michael Field' [Katherine Bradley (1849-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)], and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) - the thesis explores the strategies of (gendered)...
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Politicizing Sexualities: Mobilization practices and networking within the LGBTQ movement in contemporary Madrid
Wiesnerová, Vendula ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This ethnographic study intends to explain the recent mobilization practices within the LGBTQ movement in contemporary Madrid in reference to the strategic use of identity and networking in collective action. It describes the Spanish movement as an ideologically polarized heterogeneous aggregate. The active challenging groups criticize the dominant part of the movement for giving up its original message of sexual liberation and diluting it in consumerism by supporting capitalist tendencies and the power of leading political parties. Via launching protest campaigns and collaborating in internationally supported networks with other ideologically related social movement communities, the challenging groups demand civil rights for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation or identity. They mobilize upon the collective identity of "precariousness" while integrating elements of queer and transgender theory into their radical leftist oriented politics in order to transform the Spanish society. By bringing on new critical ideas and adherents, the success of the leftist oriented challenging groups has an impact on the direction of the politics of the dominant group, which thereby is forced to adopt such ideas into their politics. Despite the disunity and antagonistic character of the movement, the...
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The poetic evolution of Timur Kibirov
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Zadražilová, Miluše (referee) ; Glanc, Tomáš (advisor)
Timur Kibirov je významný současný ruský básník, jehož dílo přitahuje pozornost mnoha badatelů a kritiků. Výrazný podíl na tom má skutečnost, že jeho tvorba stojí na pomezí tradiční poetiky a postmodernismu. Cílem naší práce bude popsat vývoj poetiky Timura Kibirova od počátků v 80. letech po nejnovější díla. Rozsah diplomové práce by nám neumožnil vyčerpat bezezbytku toto téma, proto se soustředíme právě na vztah tradičních a postmodernistických prvků v průběhu vývoje jeho tvorby. Uvědomujíce si problematičnost těchto pojmů, jsme přesto přesvědčeni o významnosti této ambivalence pro tvorbu Timura Kibirova.
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"The Perfect Baby"- Experience of Risk During Pregnancy
Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis presents data gained from qualitative research that took place in Czech Republic in 2007. Based on in-depth interviews with women who experienced health complications during their pregnancy or whose pregnancies were classified as high-risk it analyses how the discourse of risk influences their subjective experience of pregnancy and how it affects the ways they talk about their motherhood and how they experience it. In the theoretical part of this thesis I highlight the approaches that conceptualize risk as a phenomenon that is socially constructed and mediated. I stress the relationship between the notion of risk and the way pregnancy has been constituted in the medical discourse. In the next part I focus on pregnancy as an embodied experience that is at the same time closely embedded in the gender relations and notions about women's bodies and their reproductive role. The second part of this thesis is based on data gained from the narrative interviews. The first chapter outlines the role that prenatal testing played in the narratives of my informants and analyzes the relationship between prenatal testing and the construction of authoritative medical knowledge as well as women's reasons for refusing the testing. The next chapter outlines ways the presence of risk influence women's...
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Gender Selection as a Topic of Bioethics
Hendlová, Tereza ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Kiczková, Zuzana (referee)
My thesis focuses on the topic of gender selection (deliberate determination of the child's gender which is now possible thanks to recent developments in reproductive medicine) from the perspective of biomedical ethics. The main question is whether the practise of gender selection complies with the 4 basic principles of bioethics against which all medical action should be assessed (principle of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice). In the thesis, I distinguish between two main types of gender selection: gender selection for medical and non-medical reasons. The main focus is put on the second type, which is more ethically disputable, as it is not as directly related to the child's health and well-being as the first type. Gender selection for non-medical reasons is practiced in the context of multiple interactions of social, political, economic and other factors that all inform parental choices. One of the very influential factors is the medical discourse. For the purpose of complex contextualisation of gender selection for non-medical reasons, the concept of procreative liberty (introduced by J.A. Robertson) and feminist critiques of reproductive choices are presented. My main argument is that gender selection for non-medical reasons should not be legal and available as it has a high potential...
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in three Czech translations
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
This is a theoretical and empirical work. It principally encompasses an analysis, description and comparison ofthree translations of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, by František Noska (1946), Božena Šimková (1949) and Eva Kondrysová (1967). The introduction briefly sets out the reasons for the selection of the theme and outlines the goal of the work. The work also concentrates on the circumstances surrounding the emergence of Pride and Prejudice and the reception given to Jane Austen' s novel. Particular attention is paid to the periodical context and the related changing critical responses to, and views on, the value of Jane Austen's literary work in an Anglo-Saxon and Czech environment. The work inter alia strives to identity how the Czech reception differs from the Anglo-Saxon one, and what features are specific to the Czech reception. Jane Austen' s work i s pro ven to ha ve attracted incomparably less attention in the Czech cultural sphere than in the Anglo-Saxon milieu, primarily for cultural and political reasons. There is then a thematic and stylistic examination of Pride and Prejudice, with a special focus on irony and the dialogical and epistolary form; the results of which are subsequently used in a contrastive analysis and evaluation of the three Czech translations of Pride and...
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