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Theme and Motifs of Sexual Indentity in Selected Novels by Jeanette Winterson
Čampulová, Radka ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
The aim of this Bachelor's thesis is to analyse selected works by the contemporary British author Jeanette Winterson from the perspective of sexual identity and its construction. Two of her novels will be used for demonstration - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) and Written On the Body (1992). Apart from the examination of these motifs it will try to discover possible interconnections between them. Main constituents of this thesis are the theoretical part, which provides a brief description of women and lesbian literature in the second half of the 20th century, and the practical part in which the analysis is performed.
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Arabian Gulf Women's Novel in the Context of Culture and Society
Štorková, Kristýna ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis introduces the problems facing Arab novels written by women from the Arabian Peninsula, taking into account the socio-cultural aspects of the region. The thesis closely reads and analyzes selected novels by writers from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman, in order to find common perspectives among authors on key issues affecting the status of women in society. By using the themes and characters as source for analysis, the thesis tries to answer the question about whether the female Arab writers tend to confirm the patriarchal order, or on the contrary they reject it. At the same time, the thesis analyzes the attitudes of women novelists towards the traditional values of their own society, in contrast with modern values. The thesis takes into account the major social, cultural and economic changes rapidly transforming this region in a very short period of time. These transformations have inevitably brought about substantial intergenerational conflicts within traditional families.
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Gender sensitive parenting
Vrbová, Lenka ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Kiczková, Zuzana (referee)
This thesis follows an issue of gender sensitive parentage. In particular to parents who decided to educate their kids gender sensitively. In the first part it introduces theories of gender socialization and acquiring of gender identity. Further it introduces socialization in family and, in relation it, several social factors. It tries to approach this issue through gender sensitive education. This thesis also takes a deep look to existing approaches and researches of gender sensitive education. The research part of the thesis is based on qualitative analysis of interviews with parents who are trying to educate gender sensitively. This analysis detects how these parents comprehend gender sensitive education, how they make it work, what strategies they bring up, to what situations they get while following this education program and what obstacles they face up. The goal of this dissertation is to transmit the living experience of people who try to educate their children gender sensitively and contribute the development of possibilities allowing free progression to their kids.
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Promotion equal opportunity - competition Office of year 2009
Stryková, Iveta ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Šprincová, Veronika (referee)
Promoting equal opportunity - competition "Office of the 2009". The theme of this thesis is the competition "Fifty-fifty" - respect for equal opportunities of women and men that emerged at the initiative of NGO Gender Studies, o.p.s. and the Ministry of Interior. The theoretical part focuses on the theoretical foundations and legislative basis of equal opportunities for women and men. I also represent an institutional apparatus that may serve as the basis when asserting the equal opportunities, including basic documents. I also refer to the non-state sector activities and individual types of instruments for promoting equal opportunities. For the context of the competition, the activities of the coordinator of gender equality issues in the Ministry of Interior, which are also the part of the theoretical part, are also important. The empirical part focuses mainly on the methodology of the survey which I used when setting up a new questionnaire for the purposes of the competition. It is the setting of the improved questionnaire that would enable easy evaluation is also the goal of my thesis.
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Invisible subjects of human rights
Svárovská, Gabriela ; Sokol, Jan (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
The idea of universal applicability of human rights has been a symbol of hope that peace and justice in the world is possible, since the late 1940s. Although it is a fiction, and anthropology can proof this bringing countless evidence, strong general awareness of this idea still inspires many in their strive for freedom and dignity as well as opposition to violence. The aim of this thesis is to bring two controversial examples, illustrating how and why value-driven struggle for promotion of human rights fails. The aim is nevertheless not to compromise this noble idea but to contribute to its more thorough understanding as well as more effective implementation. A chapter on so called female genital circumcision (also known as female genital mutilation) offers critical analyses of the international campaign for eradication of this practice, led by international feminist movement since the late 1970s. The attention is drawn mainly to manipulation of facts and unfair argumentation, thanks to which the so called female genital circumcision was labelled cruel practice of backward societies serving degradation and control of women, making more structured understanding of reality impossible. A chapter dedicated to abortion tries to see political and cultural influences hidden under the surface of debate on...
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From Intimate to Public - Constitution and Metamorphosis of "Women's writing" in the Context of Croatian literature
Vasiljevičová, Dajana ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nedvědová, Milada (referee)
From Intimate to Public - Constitution and Metamorphosis of "Women's writing" in the Context of Croatian literature Author: Dajana Vasiljevićova The bachelor thesis deals with the "women's writing" in Croatia, its constitution and transformations from the 1980s to present times. The main aim of the thesis is to map out characteristic discourses within literature in the context of social aspects of the Western orientated feminist movement in socialist Yugoslavia. It focuses on the analysis of femininity, sensibility and sexuality which are in opposition to values of patriachal society. The main part of the thesis comprises the analyses of three selected texts written by Croatian authors, namely Silk, Scissors by IrenaVrkljan, Marble Skin by Slavenka Drakulić and Steffie in the Jaws of Life by Dubravka Ugrešić as role models for the typology of "women's writing". The transformations of the genre were are examined continuously from the late 1970s when the theoretic aspects of "women's writing" were modified for the Croatian milieu. The confrontation of feminine identity with the patriachal phallogocentric discourse is based on hunger for recognition as an equal in society. The problem of a specifically female identity is solved in the transition from private object to public subject. This thesis...
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Performance and Sexuality at fictions by Jakuba Katalpa
Čotková, Veronika ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The subject of this thesis is to find and evaluate performative acts of the characters at proses written by Jakuba Katalpa. Since it is impossible to capture performative acts of all social discourses, we will focus only on the discourse of gender. Especially, because Jakuba Katalpa sees the world in a way that rise the question of a gender and feminism. Mainly we will focus on performative acts of characters and of a narrator at Katalpa's proses Mrtvé moře and Je hlína k snědku? Firstly, we attempt to define basic concepts such as a gender, an identity, and a performance and we will try to outline the basic theory on which we rely. We will also try to determine how, at theese proses, is an identity unregistered, how and by using which acts are characters identified with gender models, and how they differ from them. The result of the work would be to find and evaluate common principle of performance and its potential to change traditional stereotypes.
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