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(Not)Breastfeeding. Women's experience and their choice of breastfeeding
Podhrázská, Iva ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the degree of autonomy of women in the issue of breastfeeding in the Czech environment. It examines in particular the form of current breastfeeding and its normativity through narativ interviews with women who had breastfeeding experience. The aim of this work is to expose the form of the current brestfeeding standard, its limits, negativity and impacts through feminist optics and offer possible solutions in the discourse of breastfeeding. The basic theoretical starting point of the thesis is the development of infant feeding standards, its promotion and legislative anchoring in the Czech Republic as social approach of brestfeeding as well. In particular, the thesis deals with the feminist critique of the discourse of the fight, which provides the necessary arguments for looking at the phenomenon of breastfeeding standard in a different way and introducing the standard as social and cultural constructed. The analysis is the result of introducing current breastfeeding standards in the Czech republic as a directive reuqirement towards women to breastfeed which threatens women's integrity. Keywords breastfeeding standard, breastfeeding support strategy, breastfeeding promotion, feminist critique, breastfeeding experience
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Transformation of Picture of Woman in the Croatian Prose from Realism until Today
Vasiljevičová, Dajana ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nedvědová, Milada (referee)
The thesis deals with the picture of woman in the Croatian prose and its transformations from realism to present times. The main aim of the thesis is to map out characteristics of the female subject primarily within discourses of feminist critique in the context of social aspects of the Croatian milieu. Thesis focuses on analysis of female characters that firstly embodies the social hierarchy, secondly represents the mythological concept of femininity and thirdly works towards confrontation of feminine identity with the patriachal phallogocentric discourse. It also focuses on the analysis of femininity, sensibility and sexuality. The main part of the thesis comprises the analyses of nine selected texts written by Croatian authors, namely Goldsmith's gold by August Šenoa, In the Registrar's Office by Antun Kovačić, Diary by Dragojla Jarnević, Melita by J. E. Tomić, The Last of the Stipančićs by Vjenceslav Novak, The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža, Marina; or, About Biography by Irena Vrkljan, Divine Hunger by Slavenka Drakulić and Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić. The thesis shows the transformation of female characters by the influence of intellectual concepts and specific cultural situation in patriarchal society. Texts are chosen for typological diversity, which aims to cover...
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Otherness and Identity
Žáčková, Kristýna ; Kouba, Petr (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
The thesis Otherness and Identity deals with the discourse of Gilles Deleuze (Différence et répétition, 1968) and Deleuze in cooperation with Félix Guattari (Capitalisme et schizophrénie: L'Anti-Oedipe, 1972, Mille plateaux, 1980, Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?, 1991). On the basis of their discourse the process of individuation is constructed, and is at first situated into deleuzean space-time. The process of individuation is based on the principle of inner difference that is understood as a generative principle which "makes the difference". In this sense, the concept of individuation represents a concept of otherness unlike the concept of identity. The first and the second part of the thesis present basic principles of thinking of Deleuze and Guattari. In the third part of the thesis the principle of identity is localized in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. This concept is understood as a consequence of illegitimate uses of the synthesis of unconsciousness. On this ground their critique of psychoanalytic reproduction of repressive Oedipal structures is presented. And the Oedipal structure in it's reproductive function is also presented as a construct of sexual identity. The fourth part of the thesis is devoted to confrontation of opinion motivations, views and strategies of Deleuze and Guattari...
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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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