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The fight for fetal rights: pro-life discourse in the contemporary Czech media
RAČÁKOVÁ, Marie
This bachelor thesis unravels one of the highly debated topics of the current culture wars, that of the right of the unborn to live versus the right of a woman to undergo a legal abortion. The thesis primarily focuses on the contemporary Czech pro-life movement and its impact in the media space. The goal is to describe and reflect the specific character, ideological background and discursive strategies of the Czech anti-abortion scene. The work sets the issue in the context of current socio-political events and presents the influences that forms the distinctive narratives in the abortion debate.
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The end of the first wave of feminism in Czechoslovakia
Junger, Vojtěch ; Hyánková, Tereza (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
This bachelor Thesis deals with the question of the end of the first wave of feminism and the decline of the feminist movement in interwar Czechoslovakia, considering the development until 1948. The Thesis presents and analyses the reasons why, despite a progressive constitution and an emancipation-leaning society, it was not possible to achieve a greater gender equality. The Thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part presents the theoretical framework of the first wave of feminism and the feminist movement, as well as the historical context of Czech and Czechoslovakian feminism. The second part problematizes political system in Czechoslovakia in relation to women's emancipation, especially parliamentarism, the party system, the limits of democracy, and also the concept of the family. The third part of the Thesis describes and analyses the feminist movement as such, its relationship to the state and society, its strategies and ideological foundations, the formation of women's group consciousness, the mobilization potential of the women's movement and the relationship between democracy and feminism. The work is interdisciplinary - based on gender analysis, it examines the development of a historical phenomenon (the first wave of feminism) in politics and society, while compiling...
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Coverage of Aurat march and feminism in Pakistani local (Urdu) print media
Bukhari, Syeda Allia ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
This thesis attempts to explore the coverage of the yearly women's march in Pakistan, better known as the Aurat March, in the local and Urdu media of the country. Aurat March is one of the most contested events in the South Asian country, creating polarised opinions - in favour and against - in society. The same divided rhetoric is seen in the media. The thesis looks into 80 articles, covering a span of the last two years, from 2019 till 2021, by 4 local Urdu publications: Ummat, Express Urdu, Jang and NawaiWaqt and applies grounded theoretical methods to find how the march is portrayed in the media, the latter's perception of Western-style feminism and whether or not the coverage is influenced by religious nationalism and patriarchal values.
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The status of female lawyers as a theme of the Czech Women's Movement during the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Láňová, Lucie ; Gelnarová, Jitka (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the activities which were carried out by the activist Czech women's movement in the fight for better status of female lawyers in the First republic. The aim of this thesis is to find an answer to the research question "How did the Czech women's movement get involved in the question of the position of female lawyers during the First Republic?" Women were allowed to study at law school within the new republic. After finishing their studies, women wanted to work in the legal professions, which was very difficult despite the fact that women had the equal rights as men thanks to the constitution. Female lawyers were unjustifiably rejected and discriminated against. The Women's National Council, headed by Františka Plamínková and the Association of University-educated Women, tried to solve this situation. Legal department, whose mission was to ensure equal conditions for female lawyers, was established in 1925 within the association . The main goal was to mediate employment of female lawyers in the judicial service and in the conceptual state service. The activists tried for example through deputations, interventions, but also by publishing texts on the issue of the status of lawyers, to improve their chances of employment and also the conditions of employment. The...
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Women's Rights in the Middle East and their Perception in Czechia
Výborná, Veronika ; Kabrda, Jan (advisor) ; Klingorová, Kamila (referee)
Women's rights in the Islamic world are a questionable topic. Significant differences between individual countries and regions are often not taken into account and many reasons and factors that generate such conditions for women are being neglected. This presented bachelor thesis aims at presenting the status of women in the Middle East on the basis of statistical data in comparison with men. The second part intends to confront these results with the feelings and opinions of employs of Czech non-governmental organisations who visited the Middle East. The thesis presents economic rights, civil rights, political rights, education and health of women in 21 selected countries of the region, together with the interpretation of possible causes and factors limiting women's rights. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Czech women on their way to emancipation
Horáková, Klára ; Poláčková, Jana (advisor) ; Vlková, Dana (referee)
The master thesis "Czech women on their way to emancipation" is dealing with the changes of Czech society which took place during the 19th and 20th century and which are influencing the contemporary Czech society until today. This thesis is putting contemporary gender - topics in connection with political background, equal possibilities of men and women in the public and in the private sphere of life. The work is dealing with three main topics. The first is speaking about the historical development and traditional opinions on the role of women and men. The second topic is focussed on the period of the Czechoslovak socialist state and the third part is focussed on the Czech society of today.
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Protection of reproductive rights in the case law of European Court of Human Rights
Sýkorová, Petra ; Lipovský, Milan (advisor) ; Tymofeyeva, Alla (referee)
Protection of reproductive rights in the case law of European Court of Human Rights Abstract Irrespective of the fact that reproduction and sexuality are very intimate issue for each person, reproductive rights very often face restrictions, doubts, and attacks. This is also the case in Europe. Hence this paper deals with the topic of protection of reproductive rights in Europe, more specifically with the stance on the protection of these rights by the European Court of Human Rights. The aim of this paper is to explore the stance of ECHR on the protection of these rights. The author of the paper asks the research question: What is the position of ECHR regarding the protection of reproductive rights? At the same time, the paper points out to certain defects in the Czech legal regulation which could, arguably, lead to violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. The paper uses the method of critical analysis on the decisions of ECHR and evaluates the significance of these decisions. The paper uses the case law of ECHR as the primary source while drawing on subsidiary sources such as international organizations' documents or academic articles. Reproductive rights are examined through the human-rights approach with the emphasis on the women's rights in this area. This paper is divided into three parts....
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Development of civil society organizations focusing on women's rights in Tunisia before and after the first democratic elections
Homolková, Tereza ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (advisor) ; Klípa, Ondřej (referee)
In this master thesis I deal with civil society organizations in Tunisia with a focus on women's rights. Firstly, I present the conceptual frameworks I work with and I set the indicators on the basis of which I assess the organization. I present context in which organisations are operating, I describe the history of Tunisia and the state of women's rights in Tunisia. First I focus on the period before the first democratic elections, between 1987 and 2011, when president Zin Abidin bin Ali ruled. Then I move on to the period after the first democratic elections, which took place in 2011, until 2018. Subsequently, I compare the functioning of civil society organisations with a focus on women's rights in these two periods. I discuss what organizations have to deal with during their operation, what influences them and what problems they concentrate on within the framework of women's rights. I collect information and data using document analysis, and then analyze the data with open coding.
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Analysis of the Methods of the Women's Suffrage Activists: the Case of the Committee for Woman Suffrage
Švecová, Klára ; Gelnarová, Jitka (advisor) ; Charvátová, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the methods used by Czech female activists associating with the Committee for Women's Suffrage to achieve the women's right to vote. The first chapter describes the political system. Here is briefly presented the political institutions of Austria-Hungary (specifically Cisleithania), the development of political parties in the Czech lands and the opinion of political parties on the women's suffrage. This chapter also explains laws that include women's right to vote. The following chapter describes the development of the Czech women's movement, its main features and transformation of its demands and goals over time. The third chapter deals with the political and social situation that led to the formation of the Comittee for Womens's Suffrage. The chapter also presents its activities and its main members. The last part of thesis describes methods and procedures used by Committee for Women's Suffrage to achieve women's right to vote. In this chapter, the attention is paid to selecting methods and their succes. In my bachelor thesis, I focused mainly on the methods that had the greatest influence on the enforcement of women's suffrage and methods which make the question of women's rights more visible.
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The Development of the Position of women in the Middle East. Case Study of Egypt.
Hulcká, Elena ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Novotná, Yvona (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the influence of the so-called Arab Spring on the rights and the status of women in Egypt. The thesis compares and analyses women's employment, family law, violence against women and other factors in three periods of time: before, during and after the so-called Arab Spring. The main aim of this work is to answer the question of whether the so-called Arab spring has brought women a better position in society. Individual articles about women's rights in Egyptian constitutions are analysed and then compared with international conventions on women's rights. These rights are then compared to the actual status of women as described in NGO reports and other sources.
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