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The reconstruction of female sexuality in the Czech Republic between 1950-2022 against the background of the contemporary political context: biographical interviews
Šimková, Alžběta ; Hrůzová, Andrea (advisor) ; Frunc, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the influence of the apparatus of power on the perception of sexuality of women who grew up in socialist Czechoslovakia. This thesis is based on the premise of Michel Foucault's theory, according to which sexuality is permeated by a network of various power influences and relations (Foucault, 1999). It is by analysing this network of power that one can then come to identify the influences of the contemporary state mechanism. The theoretical section discusses the development of the women's question under socialism and subsequently after the coup. It then describes the main themes of the development of sexuality in the context of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. The research is based on the method of biographical interviews, through which women told their story by describing their sexual experiences and attitudes towards sexuality. Interviews were conducted with five women who became sexually active in the 1950s. The research findings were analysed using the grounded theory method, i.e. inductive coding, and then deductively linked to Simon and Gagnon's sexual script theory. Based on the identification of different levels of scenarios according to this theory, i.e. cultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic levels, the present power relations that shaped sexuality in...
Underage mothers of parental generation of 70th and 80th
Pitrová, Lenka ; Maříková, Hana (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This thesis is examines women who in the 70s or 80s become underage mothers. It tries to map out how these women perceive their life. It also investigates how negative assumptions about underage mothers agree or disagree with the specimen. First there is processed topic of underage mothers and their various aspects. It introduces the views of domestic and foreign authors on these girls. These views predicts a bleak and unsuccessful life to those girls. Another part presents era of socialism, which surveyed women grew up and became pregnant in. Next part describes the research methodology. For this thesis the qualitative research was chosen, specifically biographical interviews. The last part of the analysis is devoted to the research and specific findings. It introduces the topics that women talked about and which are very important to them. Research shows that the former young mothers perceive and evaluate their lives mostly positively. When comparing expert views on teenage mothers with the lives of these women, it is clear that the gloomy predictions of the authors didn't come true and women don't live in poverty and sadness. Conversely they happily spend time with their children and partners.

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