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Gender Issues of Playing with Dolls
Zborníková, Dana ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
The topic of my bachelor's thesis is related to gender socialization and accepted stereotypes, which lead to a different education and interests of girls and boys. Main aim of my research is to explore attitudes of preschool children to different types of dolls and the toy choice itself. As play is a key activity in preschool age, it is important to know attitude and preferences of children to one of most used kind of toy. Another goal of my thesis is to figure out, whether the oldest children in kindergarten are gender distinctive and if their distinctiveness is displayed while playing with dolls and in dialog. I have also observed whether children in the doll's selection prefer physical appearance, or the cultural characteristics. According to the theory of development we may expect that preschool children have built basic gender identity, which is perceived by them as partly changable. I have chosen individual controlled interview and semi-structured observation to achieve the results. My research shows that children have a similar idea of toys that are designed to boys and girls (doll, car, building kit, Gormits). It is interesting that both girls and boys consider doll to be toy for both genders, although boys consider it after all to be rather feminine.
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Gender Issues of Playing with Dolls
Zborníková, Dana ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
The topic of my bachelor's thesis is related to gender socialization and accepted stereotypes, which lead to a different education and interests of girls and boys. Main aim of my research is to explore attitudes of preschool children to different types of dolls and the toy choice itself. As play is a key activity in preschool age, it is important to know attitude and preferences of children to one of most used kind of toy. Another goal of my thesis is to figure out, whether the oldest children in kindergarten are gender distinctive and if their distinctiveness is displayed while playing with dolls and in dialog. I have also observed whether children in the doll's selection prefer physical appearance, or the cultural characteristics. According to the theory of development we may expect that preschool children have built basic gender identity, which is perceived by them as partly changable. I have chosen individual controlled interview and semi-structured observation to achieve the results. My research shows that children have a similar idea of toys that are designed to boys and girls (doll, car, building kit, Gormits). It is interesting that both girls and boys consider doll to be toy for both genders, although boys consider it after all to be rather feminine.
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The First Czech Queer Films from the Perspective of Queer Theory and Reception Studies
Hezinová, Sandra ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
The following bachelor's thesis focuses on the queer topic in the contemporary Czech feature cinema. In detail it analyses two films - The Country Teacher and Dolls, which were the first films in the history of Czech cinema who's main characters were ingenuously homosexual. The first part examines chosen films in the context of existing cinematographic tradition and describes the principles on which the film representation of gays and lesbians works. The main part analyses The Country Teacher and Dolls from the ideological perspective and tries to expose, how the heterosexual discourse operate in chosen films. By using the methodology of the queer theory it also describes, how are the information about gender and sexual identity organized. In the following chapter the films are explored in a broader section of cinematographic institution It concerns film's PR strategies and commercial campaigns on one hand and critical responses in the contemporary press on the other hand. The final part is founded by the reception study of queer audience, which coprehend not only the spectator's experience of chosen films, but reception modes and readers strategies as well.
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