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Feminine Spirituality by Miranda Gray Focusing on the Worldwild Womb Blessing as a Spiritual Practice New Age
Grunclová, Karolína ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kostićová, Zuzana (referee)
This diploma thesis processes the results of qualitative research, participant observation, which I carried out during 2022 and from the beginning of 2023 from the online seminars of the Womb Blessing spirituality and the meditations associated with it. The choice of the topic was motivated by my previous interest in the phenomenon of female spirituality and forming contemporary women's spiritualities in the Czech Republic - because these are currently gaining strength, diverse manifestations. I wanted to find a form of female spirituality in which I could find a pure female core and manifestations. I chose a women's open group formed around the person of Miranda Gray and her cyclical spirituality. I wanted to discover the form of female spirituality in the Czech Republic, which could be classified under the New Age by Wounter Hanegraaff. In the first part of the work, I deal with the definition of the conceptual apparatus, in the second part I deal with the general characteristics of contemporary eclectic spirituality, generally referred to as the New Age movement. In the third part, I turn to my own qualitative research. Further, in the fourth part, I compare Gray's spirituality with the concept of the New Age according to Hanegraaff. I come to the conclusion that the worldwide blessing of the...
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Visual representations of women in the Vogue fashion magazine
Tomaníček, Michal ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
This thesis "The Visual Representation of Women in Vogue" examines the changes in the portrayal of women in Vogue over time, comparing this phenomenon across three global editions of the magazine - the domestic version of Vogue CS, the original American version of Vogue U.S. and one of the most important and oldest Vogue editions in Europe, Vogue Italia. The thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. Theoretical part of this thesis is divided into four units that precede the actual research. The first one is dedicated to fashion magazines from the perspective of media type, the second one maps the origin, development and present of Vogue magazine, the third part is dedicated to the evolution of the media portrayal of women in the context of time, social situation and culture based on feminist theories and historical trends, the last category then focuses on fashion photography as a visual medium, which is the focus of the research. The practical part examines the issues of the world editions of Vogue magazine within the same time frame (1 year) in the context of the current times, but also in the context of historical developments (i.e. 2020, 2000 and 1980). This part of the thesis provides an introduction to the evolution of the portrayal of women within the different editions of the magazine,...
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Female candidates: analysis of the media representation of "femininity" in the Czech presidential elections of 2023
Michvoková, Marie ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to form an idea of the ways in which "feminine" is portrayed in the media in the Czech presidential elections in 2023. The representation of women in top Czech politics is still a minority and no woman has yet become president or prime minister. This fact does not mean that women are not as suitable for these positions as men. It means that they do not have equal opportunities in the public sphere, or rather they do not even dare to enter it. This stems from a patriarchal social order in which public sphere is adapted mainly to men. In the theoretical part of the work, I will therefore focus on the history of feminist movements and the present of feminist theories in the field of politics, the issue of women in top politics and the conceptualization of new media and their relationship with political communication. The methodological and analytical part will deal with the research of media representations. In 2023, only one woman ran in the presidential election - Danuše Nerudová. Based on an analysis of her official social media campaign, I will assess how she worked with the fact that she is a woman. The second part of the analysis will tell something about how this fact is portrayed by one serious and one tabloid media and whether it is somehow important to them. The...
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Body and Time
Olšáková, Marie ; Kupčíková,, Alena (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (advisor)
This work is about creating a conceptual sculptural work. The goal was to capture the following motives: individual ways of perceiving time and social pressure on women. My personal motivation for creating was the outrage of the societal pressure which is put on women in their reproductive age. The main part of the sculpture is a clock, which is inserted into a plaster cast in the woman's lap. At the same time, a blue IKB pipe is depicted in the woman's lap. The sculpture is a minimalistic depiction of a woman feeling of the societal pressure. Twice a day there is a moment when the hands of the clock cover the pipe, and the pressure that society exerts on us, women, disappears. These moments convey the message that there is no right time. At the same time, I created triptych relief plates in the background, which repeat the plaster material and the use of the bodies that were imprinted into it. Specifically, it captures three generations of women from my family, three different approaches and three different captures of time.
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Characters of Sluníčko: representation of femininity and masculinity in Sluníčko magazine
Frolíková, Lenka ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with representations of femininity and masculinity in Sluníčko magazine. These representations are examined through analysis of men, women, boys, girls and animal characters. The theoretical part defines gender order of contemporary society and its main characteristic. Then usual gender stereotypes in physical appearance, gender roles, interests and characteristics are defined. The diploma thesis then focuses attention to the gender socialization and concept of representations, which are defined as an instrument of power that helps to maintain androcentric order of society. Also the media are considered as significant and important tool of normalization and socialization. Another dimension of the thesis is mapping the "progress" of representations or comparing the two editions - edition n. 8 (published in 174/75) and edition n. 48 (published in 2015). In research the qualitative media analysis is used. It is focused on texts and picture illustrations of femininity and masculinity, therefore on characters. These characters are analysed through four categories - Physical appearance, Gender roles, Activities and interests, Characteristics, while the central categories are "Vacant" femininity and Counterfactuality, which are present throughout the content of both editions. Key...
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Transformations of the feminity in the Harper's Bazaar magazine after its introduction to the Czech market in comparison to the Žena a móda magazine (1988)
Pikalová, Alexandra ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
Bachelor thesis is dealing with a change of the concept of womanhood in the ELLE magazine as a first foreign fashion medium which was issued in the Czech Republic after the political- social transformation in the year 1989. As an opposite medium serves the Žena a móda (=Woman and fashion) magazine. The changes will be observed on issues of the ELLE magazine which were published in the year 1994, that meaning the first year on the Czech market. In the case of the Žena a móda magazine, subjected publications will be from the year 1988. Womanhood will be presented in the theoretical part of the thesis, characterics and history of fashion magazines will be then presented together with a short history of the ELLE magazine and same with Žena a móda. Qualitative content and picture analytics will be explained in methodological part of the thesis which I chose as a tool to capture the expected differences. The analytic part is analyzing single specific differences in beforehand chosen dimensions.
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The Goddess phenomenon in feminine spirituality - gender analysis of interviews
Štefaničová, Blanka ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Kalnická, Zdeňka (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with gender analysis of semi-structured interviews depicting the experience of women who have attended women's spirituals workshops. The theoretical part presents an essentialistic and constructivist approach to sexuality, deals with ecofeminism and spirituality that does not correspond to traditional religious systems, and presents concepts of the goddess. The practical part represents how the participiants of the research assume their femininity, embodiment, sexuality and spirituality. It also deals with the aspect of power and meaning of the spirituals workshops for women.
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