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Gender stereotypes in the chosen fairy tales by Božena Němcová and Karel Jaromír Erben
Belisová, Eva ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
I'm engaging in gender stereotypes in selected fairy tales by Božena Němcová and Karel Jaromír Erben in my dissertation. There is a gender discourse incorporated in their fairy tales, which serves as the basis for assumption of gender roles and fairy tales are becoming significant factor by gender socialization. Using feminist literary analysis I analyzed chosen fairy tales by author and authoress and classified characters from the gender perspective. I was focusing more thoroughly on four typologicaly different fairy tales (two by Němcová, two by Erben) and I was trying to demonstrate different conception and representation of femininity in them. I was investigating, which gender stereotypes are submitted to children, what kind of material is in that way submitted them to construct their gender identity and to accept gender role and whether fairy tales reproduce patriarchal gender order. Although in sporadic cases some characters exceed conventional gender roles, issues which resulted from my analysis showed, that fairy tales mostly reproduce gender inequality of patriarchal society and represent characters in gender stereotyped way.
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Men's antifeminist identity - critical analysis of men's critique of feminist men.
Pavlas, Tomáš ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The general question of this diploma thesis is the compatibility of present ideas of masculinity with democracy. The thesis narrows down the field of study onto men's antifeminist identity and maps out the variety within men's antifeminist movement. The methodology of the presented research is based on semantic and discursive analyses. The identity of antifeminist men is not studied independently, but by the means of a critical analysis of the antifeminist men's construction of their relationship to feminist men. The analyzed material consists of texts in which men are critical of feminist men. The thesis shows in what ways antifeminist men use diverse discursive techniques to construct various images of feminist men, images of themselves, and images of their mutual relationships. Great attention is also paid to a critical analysis of such constructions delivered from the perspective of gender studies and men's studies; the position of the author of this thesis is also explicitly acknowledged as a departure point for a critical reflection of the discussed images, their relationships and mechanisms of their construction. Further, a collection of social practices by means of which antifeminist men contribute to the construction of "reality" are introduced. The studied case of antifeminist identity is put...
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Mapping out the discourses of Czech gender literary criticism
Matonoha, Jan
The paper aims to map out the state of art and the dynamics of discourses of Czech gender literary criticism and to provide a critical assessment of existing body of its work. While some blinds spots and low resolutions can be detected namely in terms of its under-theorised conceptual apparatuses it works with, in sum, the paper finds the field of gender literary criticism as a reasonably developing area.
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Czech literature from a gender perspective: Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Matonoha, Jan ; Balázs, A. H. ; Deutschmann, P. ; Filipowicz, M. ; Fischerová, A. ; Gańczarczyk, G. M. ; Hoffmann, B. ; Hoffmannová, Jana ; Kalivodová, E. ; Kalnická, Z. ; Kos, S. ; Kynčlová, T. ; Lishaugen, R. ; Machala, L. ; Malevič, O. ; Moldanová, D. ; Penčeva, A. ; Poročkina, I. ; Scheinostová, A. ; Sokol, E. ; Součková, M. ; Thomas, A. ; Volková, B. ; Wutsdorff, I. ; Zachová, A.
Arranged every 5 years at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Czech Literature, the congress brought together some 150 researchers this year. The presented set of studies primarily attempts not merely to repeat other discussions on the subject of women (or men) in literature, but with the aid of gender analysis and critical interpretation to more systematically consider the literary text as a space for subject self‑comprehension and the formation of gender(ed) identities, as well as to comment on the opportunities, dilemmas and debts of Czech literary research in the context of gender thought. This collection thus offers a broad range of theoretical and thematic approaches, from a critical reading of the canon, gynocriticism and the archeology of women’s literary tradition through cross‑dressing in National Revival drama, queer reading of the socialist realist novel, the gender evaluation of contemporary Czech literature and many other topics.
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