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Fascination by the high male voice: Nick Pitera and his Youtube covers
Filippi, Lukáš ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis seeks to analyze the phenomenon of fascination with high male voice in contemporary popular culture with regard to the performative aspects of gender identity. Used here as a case study are the music videos of an American artist, Nick Pitera, whose Youtube videos have beome viral. The thesis is concerned with the ways Pitera uses his head voice, what gender stereotypes he works with and how he challenges them. The analysis of those aspects draws mainly on contemporary gender and feminist theories. This text is also concerned with the visual aspect of Pitera's videos, specifically with how the interplay of image and sound interacts with the viewers' idea of a gender identity. Here, the author draws primarily on the work of the American gender theorist Judith Butler. As a larger context for these thoughts the contemporary interest in a historical phenomenon of castrati is also examined. Key words: gender, voice, high male voice, performativity
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Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldua's Identity Politics
Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee) ; Rohrleitner, Marion Christina (referee)
Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldúa's Identity Politics Doctoral Thesis Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová 2017 ABSTRACT In the analyses executed in the present doctoral thesis, Chicana literary production emerges as a complex example of a strategic and reflexive instrumentalization of literature in the form of a political and activist tool contributing to Chicanas' gender and cultural emancipation on the one hand. On the other hand, within the Chicana/o context, literature is employed for perfecting the politics of recognition of the marginalized nation typified by the specificity of its geographic, cultural, and social location on the U.S.-Mexico border where a plethora of socially constructed categories interact and intersect. The doctoral thesis further provides a gender analysis of literary representations of Chicana/o lived experience by Chicana feminist writers in general and by Gloria Anzaldúa in particular, and investigates how these representations help shape feminist thought not only in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, but within and beyond the United States. Moreover, the thesis supplies an interpretation of Anzaldúa's reconceptualization of the border concept as a pertinent means for comprehending Chicanas'/os' socio-cultural context and for forging a...
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Gender analysis of the documents intended to eliminate social exclusion
Popelková, Veronika ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
Submitted thesis is addressing the phenomenon of social exclusion from the gender perspective. Local issues of social exclusion is trying to resolve Central Bohemian town Kralupy nad Vltavou by producing written documents as an instrument to deal with this phenomenon. Documents look into the current situation and possibilities for change in order to achieve gradual elimination of negative effects related to social exclusion in all domains of citizens live, male or female, should they be affected by social exclusion. By using the methodology of critical gender qualitative content analysis Im to find out the way the concerned documents include the subject of gender and what role the gender stereotypes play. In the theoretical section I focus on the field of social work, which is as a discipline, heavily affected by stereotyped gender views and since its origins, faces constant misconceptions of being predominantly female profession. Key words: social exclusion, gender intersection, homelessness, institution, social integration, ethnicity, threat, gender, family, female, male
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The Analysis of Gender Relations and the Concept of Romantic Love in the Novel of Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kubová, Alena ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis discusses gender relationships, construction of romantic love, and questions of infidelity in the novel Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. These concepts are examined by means of feminist literary theories that deal with gender as an analytic category and that draw on resistant reading and reader response criticism as major theoretical and methodological points of analysis. The first analytical part focuses on the ways in which femininity and masculinity of the main characters are constructed within the context of patriarchal society under socialism. The second part of the analysis is devoted to various forms of love that appear among the characters. It investigates the role of these love schemes within the presented relationships and focuses on motives of infidelity while considering the gender identity of the characters. By employing gender analysis, this diploma thesis offers a new perspective that reflects on the reproduction of gender stereotypes and departs from existing interpretations of Kundera's major novel.
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Gender-sensitive Literary Analysis of Richard Yates's novel The Revolutionary Road
Gondeková, Miroslava ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
In the thesis "Gender Literary Analysis of the novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates" a qualitative interpretative analysis with aspects of discourse analysis is used to interpret the plot and characters from a gender perspective. These interpretations are based on the "resistant reading" method introduced by Judith Fetterley. The literary analysis concepts introduced by Pam Morris and Elaine Showalter are also used as a point of reference. The aim for the application of Gender as a methodological category is to reveal and find new potential meanings and interpretations of the whole story and its characters with respect to their gender identity. The key areas that are focused on are motherhood, emancipation.
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Characters of Sluníčko: representation of femininity and masculinity in Sluníčko magazine
Frolíková, Lenka ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with representations of femininity and masculinity in Sluníčko magazine. These representations are examined through analysis of men, women, boys, girls and animal characters. The theoretical part defines gender order of contemporary society and its main characteristic. Then usual gender stereotypes in physical appearance, gender roles, interests and characteristics are defined. The diploma thesis then focuses attention to the gender socialization and concept of representations, which are defined as an instrument of power that helps to maintain androcentric order of society. Also the media are considered as significant and important tool of normalization and socialization. Another dimension of the thesis is mapping the "progress" of representations or comparing the two editions - edition n. 8 (published in 174/75) and edition n. 48 (published in 2015). In research the qualitative media analysis is used. It is focused on texts and picture illustrations of femininity and masculinity, therefore on characters. These characters are analysed through four categories - Physical appearance, Gender roles, Activities and interests, Characteristics, while the central categories are "Vacant" femininity and Counterfactuality, which are present throughout the content of both editions. Key...
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The Concepts of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Selected Novels by Petra Soukupová
Lubinová, Kateřina ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Baslarová, Iva (referee)
Thesis The Concepts of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Selected Novels of Petra Soukupová will be through the tools of feminist literary theory analyze three contemporary novels of the Czech authoress- Pod sněhem (2015), K moři (2007) and Zmizet (2011). The basic analytical category will be gender, but equally important will be the concepts of motherhood and fatherhood, which interweave all three novels. An integral part of the thesis will be the method of resistant reading, which is based on the theory by Judith Fetterley. Resistant reading is an alternative to uninstructed or unreflected reading, in which a reader uncritically accept the author's concept of the text. The core of the resistant reading is, therefore, a critical examination of literary works and the formation of new critical meanings to androcentrism. Important building stones of the thesis will be the work of literary theorist Pam Morris and work of the literary theorist Jonathan Cullera. Keywords: gender, motherhood, fatherhood, resistant reading
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Women in orange: Analysis of the relationship and the power in a total institution of female prison
Balatková, Dominika ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
5 Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on the structure of relationships and the influence of power in the documentary image of the total institution of female prisons. The total institution is, seen from the outside, an impenetrable institution. This fact enables us to analyse the structure of relationships and the influence of power more easily than in an open surroundings. The environment of female prisons is also defined from the point of view of gender - gender socialises us, we constantly refer to gender, gender is an organising principle. The aim of this diploma thesis is to find the answer where to gender projects itself in the environment of ostensibly no-gender determination. The research of the thesis defines the study of a docusoap, broadcasted at Nova TV in 2015. The study also contains an analysis of an interview with the producer of the show. Based on this analysis I come to the conclusion that within the documentary image of female prisons it is visible that the prison keeps the stereotyped image of a "real" woman and the whole prison is run according to this model. This means that gender stereotypes mirror mainly in everyday functions of the prison. The next reflection of gender stereotypes is evident in the relationships between the inmates themselves and further differentiation between...
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Gender analysis of the movie Snow White and the Huntsman
Vokounová, Eliška ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
Bc. Eliška Vokounová Gender analysis of the movie Snow White and the Huntsman Diploma thesis Abstract In this diploma thesis, I analyze movie Snow White and the Huntsman, which was released in 2012. This film is an adaptation of the famous fairy tale about Snow White. However, this adaptation differs in several aspects from the traditional version of this fairy tale. The first part of my diploma thesis consists of overview of theories and methodology, which I employ later in analytical part of this thesis. Feminist theories are the core of this thesis. Mainly, I focus on feminist archetypal analysis and beauty myth. I also focus on feminist literary and movie analysis. Feminist archetypal analysis and resistant reading are my main methodological tools. In the second part of my diploma thesis, I analyze each character chronologically. I focus mainly on archetypal analysis of these characters, I also analyze other symbolism and beauty myth. Keywords: Snow White, beauty myth, archetypes, archetypal analysis, resistant reading
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