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Short Awakening: Springing up of New Gender Topics in the Czech Press in 1960s.
Miholová, Kristýna ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Kiczková, Zuzana (referee)
The graduate thesis analyses the construction of gender order and gender relations under the communism in socialist Czechoslovakia with special emphasise on the sixties. The text is concerned on the reflection of state-socialist gender order in media articles. My sources of findings were Rudé právo as a representative of official state discourse and Literární noviny and Literární listy as a "cultural periodical", which represent intellectual discourse. In first part I propose several theoretical concepts about gender aspects of communist ideology and about the key changes which means the state-socialist form of emancipation for women's life. On the basis of these concepts I analyse the selected articles by thematic analysis and ideological analysis (a type of CDA). The special attention is focused on theoretical analysis of discussion which I have found in Literární noviny in 1967. This discussion was opened by publishing book The second sex which was written by Simone de Beauvoir. I consider this debate as new and by that time isolated disputation about gender order and women emancipation process. Especially in a comparison with official state approach, which followed up Marxist approach and which was focused on the women employment as a key form of women emancipation. On the other hand, new disputation in...
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Political parties as a barrier for women entering high-level politics
Mildorfová, Jaroslava ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Šprincová, Veronika (referee)
Using a theoretical framework that combines public policy and feminist theories, this thesis examines the low representation of women in parliament and in the leadership of political parties. It contends that women as a group are discriminated against in the arena of political parties, which in turn is a contributing factor to their under-representation in high-level politics. The thesis consists of two main analytical elements. The first examines the rhetoric used by the five main political parties in the Czech Republic as regards their policies on the equal representation of women and men. It contrasts this rhetoric with the reality as demonstrated by the latest statistics on women's representation on candidate lists (Parliamentary Elections 2010) and in the leadership of political parties. The second analytical element consists of a case study of the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD). It analyses the conditions (feminist activism, internal party dynamics, permeability of party leadership) that the CSSD should meet in order to become an example of good practice as regards parity of representation. An analysis of where the party currently stands in relation to these objectives supports the conclusion that there is a discrepancy between rhetoric and practice. This discrepancy, in addition to the...
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The Meaning of Gender in (for) the Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu
Čepelová, Hedvika ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis concerns about how the concept of gender interacts in broader social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Main interest lays on the potentiality to extend useful practical and theoretical perspectives of Bourdieu into feminist thinking, as well as on the feminist critical assesment of Pierre Bourdieu's theory and possible answers on it. Selected feminist views on Bourdieu's theory and on some of its concepts (e.g. habitus or disposition) and the view of Bourdieu on feminism as a critical theory and political movement will be analysed. The thesis follows primary literature written by Bourdieu, using the critical arguments of Toril Moi and Leslie McCall as two main pillars. First, the potentiality of Bourdieu's theory to address emancipation, universality and overcoming essentialist and non-essentialist positions of feminism will be discused. Second, I am focusing on the relations between gender, social order, capital and distinctive/distributive mechanism. Finally the relationship between the terms production and reproduction in Bourdieu's theory will be elaborated and some possible points to feminist critical thinking as well as to Bourdieu's theory will be made. Klíčová slova: Pierre Bourdieu, feminism, gender, habitus, capital, social order, distinction
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Woman as an opponent: manifestations of sexism in magazine Maxim
Viktorinová, Lucie ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Kepplová, Zuzana (referee)
The central question of this diploma thesis is, whether sexisms is a commonplace phenomenon of our society, how does this phenomenon appears in our public discourse of present-day society and how can we identify it. The diploma thesis searches the answers for this question mainly in theories of radical feminism, which are part of the second feministic wave, in present theories concerning sexism and patriarchy, in present theories about mens` lifestyle magazines and in an empirical research. Radical feminism` theories specify the manifestations of sexism. The current theories unfold the strategies through which is sexism ventilated. The empirical research then includes an analysis of Czech lifestyle magazine for men Maxim, specifically the analysis of 23 articles selected from one complete volume of this magazine, specifically 2012. The method of coding according to Strauss and Corbin was chosen as the key method. Based on the scope of this method (the selective coding part) the central category was identified and named as Women as an opponent. Its characterization and dimensional scales (in form of variable strategies) were defined as well. Key words Sexism, gender, gender order, discourse, patriarchy, mens` lifestyle magazines, Maxim, irony, axial and selective coding.
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