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Feminist photography in the 1970s and 1980s as a tool for political and social change
Šatalíková, Adéla ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Bendová, Eva (referee)
My bachelor thesis is going to be about feminist photography of 70s and 80s of the 20th century as a tool for political and social change. At the beginning, a brief history of feminism will be presented. This part of the work will also be devoted, for example, to the reasons that led to the fact that there were not big women artists in the history of art and inequality between genders in history. After introduction into the historical context, Im going to focus on the reasons why the medium of photography is the right tool for political and social change and why this medium was used by feminist artists of the 70s and 80s. Afterwards i will focus on individual issues that the feminist artists thematized. It contains for example rape and violence against women in general, the right to decide about your own body, abortion issues, the use of pop culture to break down stereotypes, self- portrait as a tool to fight traditional image of feminity, the issue of raising girls versus boys, and the conflict between "white" and "black" feminism. The conclusion of the thesis will summarize the practical impacts of feminist art on society. Keywords Feminism, Photography, feminist photography, corporeality gender, sexuality, 80s of the 20th century, 70s of the 20th century, visual culure, politics, society, woman,...
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The Masculine World of Poker: A Qualitative Study of Women at Poker Tables
Haas, Petr ; Soares Moura, Eva (advisor) ; Teichmanová, Klaudia (referee)
The thesis is focused on masculinity and gender stereotypes in poker environment. The author studies how female poker players have entered the poker environment and what enabled them to do so. What problems did players encounter in the beginnings of their poker careers and how they dealt with these obstacles? Part of the work is also an analysis of gender- based stereotypes in poker environment encountered by female players. The author explains whether and how women adjust their competitive game strategy depending on whether they play against women or men. In the end the, the Author studies what is it like to be a female poker player rout of the casino space. How does their closest ones perceive this "strange" profession? How challenging is poker and are there any limitations for women playing poker? In the theoretical part, the author presents the theoretical basis of research, i.e., gender studies, gender stereotypes, feminity and masculinity, sociology of sport and provides a brief overview of the current sociological research of poker. The second part is about the methodology of qualitative research, the method of data collection and their subsequent analysis. The research is based on six semi-structured interviews, which the author then analysed by open coding. The third part of the thesis is...
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The media construction of feminity according to women's lifestyle magazines in years 2006 and 2016
Kučerová, Lucie ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
The master thesis The media construction of feminity according to women's lifestyle magazines in years 2006 and 2016 is concerned with values, that women's lifestyle magazines present to women. These values concern with topics such relationships, sexuality, face, health and succees in career. The thesis will examine, in which roles women appear in these magazines. The aim of the thesis is to present a picture of an ideal woman, as the women's lifestyle magazines construct it. The theoretical part is devided into five chapters. The first chapter is focused on historical development of magazine publishing in Czech Republic since 1989. The second chapter describes development of trends in the media content in the last decade. The third part deals with the media and lifestyle magazines ownership. The fourth part introduces a general content of women's lifestyle magazines. The last chapter is focused on the role of women and women's lifestyle magazines in the current society. It discusses e. g. the term "double burden". The analytical part combines qualitative and quantitative content research and its main objective is to describe, how the term feminity and the women values (relationships, sexuality, face, health and career) change in women's lifestyle magazines between years 2006 and 2016. The chosen...
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We also fight, Cultural Models of Violance from the perspective of the Roma girls
Trachtová, Zuzana ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
Key words: Romani girls, violence, teenage groups, gender diferences, feminity, masculinity Abstract: The text is based on ethnographic research concerning a group of Roma teenagers in Prague and especially the cooperation with Roma girls belonging to that group. The teenagers often touched upon the issue of violence within their peer communication. The research shows that there are several similar Roma teen groups in Prague which organise street fights against each other. The research was carried out in two stages, the first one of which involved work with the whole group. Violence turned out to be dominant mainly for the boys. However, the girls respected this system as well. For this reason, the girls became the focus of the second stage of the research. The text is supposed to provide an outline discussing the question of violence meaning as seen by the girls and their understanding as well as verbalising the phenomenon in question. Furthermore, the theoretical part includes conceptual frames related to the term of violence and its position in different contexts of social sciences. Violence is connected mostly with the youth, gender and masculinity but also with marginalisation, honour and respect. Theoretical literature concerning female violence is paid attention to as well. Besides, this work...
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Cross-cultural perception of attractiveness and its correlates: the role of visual modalities
Fiala, Vojtěch ; Kleisner, Karel (advisor) ; Třebický, Vít (referee)
This work reviews the literature on the topic of intercultural perception of human attractiveness with special focus on recent videostimuli-using research. The first section introduces several basic perspectives on ecological-evolutionary view of attractiveness. The next section deals with intercultural differences in attractiveness perception dicussing possible explanations of these differences. The third chapter focuses on faces of people of cross-culture origin and usage of composite stimuli and artificially manipulated stimuli in inter-cultural research. The fourth chapter examines the usage of videostimuli in attractiveness research. I also add information about intercultural usage of videostimuli as far as these are available. Finally, I discuss a possible source of result ambiguity and highlight the potential use of videostimuli in intercultural research of attractiveness perception. Keywords Attractiveness, intercultural perception, videostimuli, cross-culture origin, composite images, averageness, masculinity, feminity
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Fashion and its Role in the Social Construction of Gender Boundaries
Polčová, Lenka ; Maříková, Hana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Marie (referee)
My bachelor thesis deals with the topic of "Fashion and its role in social construction of gender boundaries" and discusses the function of clothing in the establishment of gender indentities. As a theoretical foundation to my thesis were used the premises of symbolic interactionism from the theory of performativity by Judith Butler. According to symbolic interactionism the gender emerges by performative repetition (Butler 1993), which means that the wearing of certain style of clothing represents one of the ways by which gender is determined. On the other hand, it refuses the idea, that person would be able to attack the gender categories in subversive manner by himself. Feminity and masculinity represent cultural construct , which is nourished by the notion, that men and women have different innermost foundations, with what Butler fundamentally disagrees. The confusion of categories male/female is to great extent noticeable in fashion. The boundaries between female and male fashion are constantly crossed from both sides. Female and male joins together in androgynous fashion, which appears from the onset as possible escape from repressive power of regulative ideal, but it is questionable to what extent it is really hermaphrodite or gender-unloaded, and to what extent it follows the traditional...
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Sexually dimorphic signs of human face within the life history theory
Klusáčková, Tereza ; Flegr, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Třebický, Vít (referee)
Tereza Klusáčková: Sexually dimorphic signs of human face within the life history theory Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Natural Science, Department of Philosophy and History of Science Bachelor's thesis, pages 39, 2014 Sexually dimorphic signs play a role in a mate choice. To produce quality offsprings it is necessary to choose an individual with our preffered attractive signs which reveal good genetic material of their bearer as a partner. Presented research explains a concept of the life-history theory and also the sexual selection and its theories. A key part of it is focused on a brief anatomical description of superficial structures of human face with an emphasis on masculine and feminine appearance and dedicates to thein changes during an ontogeny. It generally defines an attractiveness, examine preferences of the opposite sex for masculine and feminine characteristics and describes changes of female appearance and preferences during the menstrual cycle. This thesis deals with topics of symmetry and averageness, which refer to good state of health and high-quality genetical basis of an individual. Marginally deals with heterozygosity and studies exploring the effect of MHC genes on the perception of attractiveness. Key words: human face, life history theory, sexual selection, sexual...
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Construction of gender identity within the series Dokonalý svět /the perfect world
Mlynářová, Martina ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Baslarová, Iva (referee)
The thesis analyzes the instruments of gender stereotypes reproduction and gender identity construction in Czech TV series Dokonalý svět. Is the media content gendered? With which instruments of gender stereotypes reproduction and gender identity construction is TV viewer confronted and on which levels? I use the theory of social construction of reality, the theory of the lenses of gender or the characters and narrative structure of the TV series (soup opera) to come to a conclusion. The thesis focuses on the fact that Dokonalý svět does not only reflect the stereotypes on the other hand. It confronts the standard gender orders by the comic character. The comedy character ridicules some gender stereotypes and shakes their social status.
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