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Gender Role Represented in Official Media: Communist Legacies and the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality
He, Jiarong ; Kolenovská, Daniela (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee) ; Kubal, Agnieszka Maria (referee)
The question addressed in this paper is how the mainstream media reproduced and participated in reshaping gender discourse before and after the transformation in Russia and the Peoples Republic of China, selecting People's Daily and Rabotnitsa from 1980 to 2000 as research objects and conducting both quantitative and qualitative analysis. In general, both countries have gone through the centralised state market economy reforms and suffered the impact of free market consumerism and commercialization with these. As a result, women's aesthetic is more diversified, but it also strengthens the sexual gaze of women's bodies. There are more new occupations, but women also face great challenges when a depression or labour surplus occurs. Meanwhile, the legacies inherited by the two countries also differed to some extent. Russia experienced a more violent and comprehensive onslaught of ideas, where consumerism and commercialization were more directly reflected in the mass media, and the social gender order took on a state of tug-of-war between the traditional, communist and emerging identities, while China's reform has eroded the legacies in a more insidious and slow manner. Semiotics management remains in the hands of the Party, but economic and social liberalization are not only influencing people's...
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The disparity between de jure and de facto experiences of Romani women in the Czech Republic: An intersectional analysis
Angert, Michelle Elizabeth ; Asavei, Maria Alina (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee) ; Kubal, Agnieszka Maria (referee)
The Roma are historically one of the most discriminated against minorities in the world. Experiences are not universal throughout the Romani community, and Romani women in particular are subjected to greater injustices. This paper presents the vast de jure legislation from both the European Union and the Czech Republic as they relate to Romani women. These women fall under the jurisdiction of gender equality laws and the laws promoting Roma equality. While these laws, as written, strongly support anti-discrimination, the reality is actually very different, and I will demonstrate this disparity by highlighting the real experiences of Romani women in the education, healthcare, and employment sectors. Each example from these three sectors is classified and analysed using Leslie McCall and Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality methodologies. Romani women in the Czech Republic are placed at the intersection of three axes of discrimination: gender, ethnicity, and ethno-gender. This state, at the confluence of these axes, is unique to Romani women and must be acknowledged as salient before Romani women can fully achieve equality within society. Keywords: equality, gender, Roma minority, ethnicity, discrimination, Romani women, intersectionality 1
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