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Masculinity and its Crisis in the work of E. Hemingway, K. Kesey and Ch. Palahniuk
HOFFMANN, Daniel
The diploma thesis sets out to analyse and compare the portrayal of masculinity and its crisis in the novels The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Firstly, it defines masculinity as gender and it introduces the fundamental theoretical framework for gender analysis. The thesis focuses on gender and its key aspects, the relation of gender and human physiology, the theories of gender acquisition and the basic perspectives of understanding masculinity. After that, the thesis describes the concepts of hegemonic and toxic masculinity, followed by the debate about masculinity crisis as a political category and individual identity. The literary analysis of each novel introduces the life of the author as well as his literary and historical context. Initially, it analyses each male character separately so that it can later conclusively describe the ten examined key aspects of masculinity and its crisis in the novel. After the analysis of each novel, the thesis presents their comparison put in the historical context.
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Crisis of masculinity between chimaera and stereotype. Gender and Czech society on the turn of 19th and 20th century
Mareš, Jan ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Kučera, Rudolf (referee)
1 Abstract This paper asks, whether a crisis of masculinity can be found in Czech political movements and communities at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. We analyze the development of gender orders between 1870 and 1910. There the imagination of separated spheres created an asymmetric gender order, yet partial shifts were evident. The ideals of masculinity and feminity were influenced through nationalism, which led to an emotionalization of masculinity by the beginning of the 20th century. The integration into the national body enabled the feminity to take positive use of the prevailing stereotypes. A change came after 1900, when the idea of degeneration appeared, attacking the contemporary form of masculinity denotating it as false. It follows a case study of the emergence of the Czech scouting. The establishment of scouting in Britain and America is today interpreted as a reaction to the crisis of masculinity, which makes it a good starting point for observing the crisis in another culture. The crisis manifested itself indirectly, on an abstract level, as a criticism of the state of the culture. Some of the scout founders considered this an opportunity, to set up a new culture by colonizing the nature (a feminine attribute). There were presuppositions for a feeling of crisis in the Czech...
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Phenomenon of Men's Therapy Group in Therapeutic Community
KARÁSEK, Daniel
The major aim of this thesis is to focus on the part of a program of therapeutic communities for drug abusers called "the men's groups." The thesis is bringing the facts and the views at the present position of men in society, developmental problems of men and male themes. It describes the gender issue in the field of mental disorders and drug abuse. It informs about the origin and experiences in running of the men's groups in the world as well as in the Czech Republic especially the League of Outspoken Men and Therapeutic Community Podcestný Mlýn. The constituent of this thesis is the search with an aim to map the presence and the approach of men's groups in the programs of therapeutic communities united in the Section of therapeutic communities of Association of Non-Governmental Organizations.
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