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This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studies and argues that global capitalism initiates processes in which the practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of the marketization and commodification of areas of social life tha…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Care

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Vlastní cestou? Životní dráhy v pozdně moderní společnosti

The book is innovative in applying both, quantitative and qualitative life-course research methodology. The authors analyse the transformation of partner and family arrangements and identify problems connected with achieving a work-life balance in Czech society. The book explains how the processes of individualisation, gender-conventional refamilialisation, and globalisation (including the socially stratified effects of the economic crisis) contribute to the increasing social stratification of life courses.…

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Care, Parenting, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Diskuse o vztahu přerozdělování a uznání

The review of the book of two prominent personalities of the critical theory Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth presents their different approaches to the theory of justice in the reciprocal confrontation. Whereas Fraser proposes two-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, Honneth suggests alternative approach to justice that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Multikulturní dialog v monologu o vagínách

In the article the author highlights the critical potential of the theatre performance Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler with regard to both gender justice and multiculturalism. Ensler adverts to the injustice that women face particularly by means of narrative while she aims to avoid the western imperialistic view and afford the space to women outside the western culture too. Notwithstanding that the performance would benefit by stronger accent to the connection between feminism and multiculturalism, th…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Law

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraserová, Axel Honneth: Přerozdělování nebo uznání?

The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice. On the one hand Fraser proposes two-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, on the other handHonneth formulates theory of recognition that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraser: Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflexions on the ´Postsocialist´ Condition

The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice. On the one hand Fraser proposes two-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, on the other hand Honneth formulates theory of recognition that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Economy, Globalization, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Feminismus je tady a je náš aneb marginalizované(í) spojte se!

The article is a review of a book Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989, in which collective of authors is mapping the development of women oriented activism in the Czech Republic after the fall of communism in 1989. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Péče jako nedoceněná nájemní práce v globální ekonomice

The article is a review of collection of articles edited by Arlie R. Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich. They presented in this book set of articles dealing with the transformation of social organization of care in the context of globalization, feminization of migration and global inequalities. …

Topics: Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Care

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraser: Rozvíjení radikální imaginace. Globální přerozdělování, uznání a reprezentace

The review presents the book by Nancy Fraser Stretching Radical Imagination which encompasses the articles representing her theoretical development from the two-dimensional theory towards the theory of postwesphalian democratic justice …

Topics: Globalization, Sociology of Law

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Paradoxy kapitalistické modernizace z feministické perspektivy

he article is a review of the volume published by the collective of authors of Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main which focuses under the direction of Axel Honneth on the theory of paradoxical development of capitalist modernization. …

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Virginia Held: The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global

The review of the book The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held. …

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Antagonismus neoliberalismu a sociální spravedlnosti

The article is a review of the book Social Critique in the Era of Globalization by Marek Hrubec and the collective of authors. The authors deal not only with the critical analysis of the contemporary global order and the situation of huge number of global poor and exploited but they also suggest possible institutional arrangements to solve social conflicts and profound economic injustice. In the Czech context it is important that the book brings feminist authors into the field of critical globalization studies…

Topics: Gender, Globalization

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology