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The Reflection and Construction of "Good Old Age" in the Rainbow Carehome
Šrámek, Vít ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
Keywords: seniors, ageing studies, interaction, strategies of care Abstract: With the current demographic trend of population ageing, the issue of the post- productive stage of life (65+) becomes a topic of growing social relevance. Social cultural anthropology is no exception as ageing studies have been moving to the forefront of scientific discourse in recent years. One of the pioneers of ageing studies in Czech social and cultural anthropology is Hasmanová Marhánková with her longtime devotion to the issues of ageing , senior care and gender in old age (e.g. 2013: Aktivita jako projekt. Diskurz aktivního stárnutí a jeho odezvy v životech českých seniorů a seniorek, 2011: "Leisure in old age - disciplinary practices surrounding the discourse of active ageing."). The question of how to ensure the appropriate quality of life for seniors is one of the most important ones. For a fair number of seniors, this means quality of life spent in senior homes, which represent one of the possibilities of senior care for families that cannot (due to physical or social limitations) or would not care for the seniors in their homes. It is also an alternative for seniors without family. The current project will focus on a specific senior home (called Delta Senior Home for the purpose of anonymity) and on the strategies of...
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Queer Reading of Middlesex: Discourses of Intersexuality in the Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hamšíková, Marie ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
The thesis dedicates to discourses of intersexuality in the novel Middlesex written by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. For the analysis, the method of queer reading was deployed, within the broader perspective of cultural studies. After introducing the context of the novel, and the theoretical framework, three analytical chapters follow which seek queer moments on the background of critical reviews of the novel. First chapter focuses on heteronormativity, performativity, and identity politics. Second chapter is interested in the confession genre and subject in confession. Third, and last chapter closes the analysis with finding moments of queer pleasure.
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Culpa in contrahendo
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
Culpa in Contrahendo Resumé The aim of this degree work is to introduce the institute of pre-contractual liability and its practical application. The work focuses on the position of this institute in the Czech legislation, its classification in the system of laws before the recodification of civil law, and its express regulation in Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code. Much attention is devoted to rulings of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and its approach to the application of pre-contractual liability in specific cases. The degree work is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter defines the term 'Culpa in contrahendo', describes its origin in the work of a German jurist of genius, Rudolf von Jhering, and outlines the origin of the institute in Roman law. In this chapter is also a description of the first case of pre-contractual liability, 'Linoleumfall', which was resolved by the Imperial Court. The chapter also contains an overview of instances of pre-contractual liability embodied in foreign judicial codes. The second chapter describes the regulation of pre-contractual liability in the Czech body of laws before the recodification of civil law with illustrations of individual facts in issue formerly contained in Act No. 40/1964 Coll., Civil Code, and Act No. 513/1991 Coll., Commercial Code....
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The choice of contraception adolescent girls
Beranová, Šárka ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
In my thesis I will cover the topic of the female's point of view of contraception and birth control in the Czech Republic. I will the target the pros and the cons of their decision to use birth control or not as well as the main source of information they will base their decision upon. I will also research the expectations and concerns leading to the ultimate decision. The theoretical part will describe the sexual behavior, that is closely link to decision whether to use birth control or not as well as legislative and educational side. For the theoretical part I will rely on current sociological research and I will also use personal interviews with young women. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Transmisogyny and sexism in public space
Prokešová, Linda ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis focuses on the interpretation of trans people's experience in heteronormative public space. The empirical part was realized through semi-strucuted interviews. This part examines communicative partners' actual experience with displays of physical and verbal abuse, their perception of sexism, sexistic advertising and the current beauty ideal, together with their personal feelings of safety or anxiety in the public space. The theoretical part defines basic terms and concepts on which the work is based. I deal with the question of heteronormativity and its impact on negotiation of non-heterosexual identities in a given space. I work with the concept of sexuality as a regulatory and supervisory mechanism of the society. Further on, I explain the conceptualization of transsexuality in the Czech medical and socio-legal discourse and introduce the limits posed by medicinal conception of transsexuality from the gender perspective.
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The Female Voice in Contemporary Theory
Voráčková, Barbora ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This BA thesis aims to inform Czech musicological circles about the current theoretical debate on female voice. Employing the method of close reading, the author introduces selected texts and reflections on the female voice, using phenomenology, feminist theory or psychoanalysis as a theoretical background. Last, but not least, the thesis provides an impetus to think about female voice in the context of contemporary music, which, with its frequent use of vocalisation without lyrics, is especially pertinent to the aforementioned debate. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Biomedical Construction of "Health"
Nová, Nikola ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Kiczková, Zuzana (referee)
Nikola Žáková The Biomedical Construction of "Health" Thesis Prague 2014 ABSTRACT This thesis focuses on the analysis of biomedical categories of "health", "illness" and "prevention". The aim is to determine how these categories are used in two case studies - "diabethes melitus 2" and "hepatitis B, C" - in the periods 1989-1990, 1995-1996, 2002-2003 , 2006-2007. "Health" is currently conceived as a "norm" that we should strive to meet. Through categories of "health", "disease", "prevention" and through the action of the discourse of risk and individual responsibility (for health of ourself and also for the health of the entire community), is desribed how the normative social expectations about health are shaped in the medical articles. We constantly monitor our health and we manage our behavior according to the potential "risks". This thesis examines how the institution of medicine influences the lives of individuals in society, on the basis of content analysis and discourse analysis of case studies from the renowned medical journal Časopis lékařů českých. Keywords: health, disease, prevention, risk, biopower, (self)disciplining
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Sexualization of Prague as a Travel Destination
Zvolská, Tereza ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis is dealing with the sexualization of Prague as a travel destinaation for men. Due to the quick evolution of post-socialist Prague, the sex tourism and infrastracture has developed into one of the most sexualized countries in the post-soviet bloc. The aim of this thesis is to show differences between representation of Prague as a Stag tour destination and one of the pressuposingly signified as gay sex tourism. The combination was chosen due to the common form of objectification of the czech male and female bodies which are carrying the influence onto the city. Theoretically, the thesis is based on the theories of tourism and emerging globalisation studies which also importantly influence the sexualisation. The methodology was chosen to cover the differences of unsofar non-researched topic. The case study, using the content analysis to describe the differences.
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All Together. Film representations of old age and disability
Ondrušková, Jitka ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (referee)
The thesis deals with cultural representations of old age and discusses various meanings associated with the current discourse of old age. The thesis analyses French/German film All Together (2012), which in many ways corresponds to the current discourse of active aging.The Stuart Hall's concept of representation is used for deconstruction of film narrative's meanings and its ideological structures. The paper is also using disability studies' theoretical concepts, such as disability, compulsory ablebodiedness etc. The paper also examines the intersections of old age, disability nad gender. Key words Active ageing, old age, disability, gender, otherness, compulsory able-bodiedness,
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