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Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia
The article analyses medical communication in popular media relating to the risks in reproduction in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and shows how it used emotions as an instrument to control women’s reproductive behaviour. In particular, we use an approach inspired by Donati’s (1992) political discourse analysis and by Snow and Bedford’s (1988) framing analysis to explore communication on the risk of infertility in the abortion debate, the risk of fetal abnormalities in the pren…
What happened to my time during the COVID-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capability to govern time during the pandemic and the extent to w…
Review [Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956. By Eszter Varsa. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021.]
Topics: Gender, Historical Sociology, Care, Parenting, Family, Social Policy
Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia
The article analyses medical communication in popular media relating to the risks in reproduction in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and shows how it used emotions as an instrument to control women’s reproductive behaviour. In particular, we use an approach inspired by Donati’s (1992) political discourse analysis and by Snow and Bedford’s (1988) framing analysis to explore communication on the risk of infertility in the abortion debate, the risk of fetal abnormalities in the pren…
Topics: Gender, Parenting, Public health
Fragile Pronatalism and Reproductive Futures in European Post‐Socialist Contexts
This editorial seeks to define fragile pronatalism by highlighting why pronatalism in the examined Central and Eastern European post‐socialist countries should be considered fragile. Moreover, it aims to map desirable future changes in fertility policies in the region. Following a brief presentation of the articles contained in this thematic issue, our concluding thoughts complete this editorial.…
Topics: Parenting, Family
Rodičovské plány a cesty k rodičovství gayů a leseb
Through a qualitative analysis of interviews with 52 men and women with non-heterosexual identities, the article deepens the understanding of parental intentions and the formation of pathways to gay and lesbian parenting in the Czech Republic. The article explains the reduced parental intentions and postponement of gay and lesbian parenting in the contexts of heteronormative, biologizing and gendered discourses of parenthood and the lack of legislative recognition of homoparental families in Czechia. The analy…
Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family, Sexuality
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic
Topics: Gender, Parenting, Social Policy
Gender a změny v dělbě práce v domácnostech s dětmi v době pandemie covidu-19
The article ties in with the scholarship on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender equality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents of children under 12, we examine the processes that led to the increase or dismantling of the gender division of labour in families during the first nationwide lockdown. Using the concepts of path dependency and ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender, we explain the strategies couples with children used to adapt to the enormous increase in reproductive wor…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting
Childlessness and Barriers to Gay Parenthood in Czechia
This mixed‐methods article focuses on childlessness and barriers to parenthood among non‐heterosexual men in Czechia. On the quantitative sample of 419 men (165 gays, 125 bisexuals, and 129 heterosexuals with same‐sex romantic/sexual attraction), recruited on a representative online panel, we map the parenting desires, intentions, and perceived barriers to parenthood. Our analysis identifies a substantial group of gay men without parenting desires and intentions compared to heterosexuals and bisexuals, a…
Topics: Gender, Parenting
Child and Family Support Policies Across Europe: National Reports from 27 Countries
Topics: Care, Family, Social Policy
Bezdětní a postoje k rodičovství
Fenomén bezdětnosti je jedním z rysů demografického vývoje evropských populací. V mezinárodním kontextu se Česká republika řadí k zemím s nejnižším podílem bezdětných žen v populaci. Podle projekcí bude nejvyšší, téměř pětinový podíl trvale bezdětných v generacích narozených v polovině 80. let, v dalších generacích by měl postupně klesat na 11 %, podíl žen se dvěma dětmi se sníží na 45 až 47 %. Monografie přináší výsledky výzkumu bezdětných jedinců a p…
Topics: Parenting
Dynamický pohled na bezdětnost perspektivou kvalitativního longitudinálního výzkumu
Perspektivou longitudinálního kvalitativního výzkumu článek přispívá k porozumění růstu bezdětnosti v ČR skrze zachycení zkušeností a identit bezdětných a osvětlení mechanismů, které vedou k dlouhodobému setrvávání v bezdětnosti či změnám reprodukčních identit a plánů. Výzkum vychází z analýzy zpravidla po 11−12 letech opakovaných problémově orientovaných rozhovorů s ženami a muži, kteří byli v 1. vlně rozhovorů bezdětní a bu preferovali trvalou bezdětn…
Topics: Parenting
Children of the state? The role of pronatalism in the development of Czech childcare and reproductive health policies
The chapter explores how pronatalism has influenced the formation of reproductive and care policies in Czechia. It shows that the pronatalist framing has been selective in the historical as well as the present-day debates on reproduction. Although pronatalist framing presents itself as resting on statistical evidence of decreasing, low, or insufficiently rising fertility, the analysis shows that how the situation at a given time is defined has been more important than the actual birth rate (trend) itself. It a…
Topics: Gender, Care, Social Policy
Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods lifecourse research
This article explores the relationships between partnership trajectories and having an only child. Few studies have focused on one-child families, even though in many countries having just one child is the main factor driving sub-replacement fertility levels. Little is known especially about how non-progression to a second child relates to partnership trajectories. This article contributes to filling these gaps by using a mixed-methods life-course research. We combine sequence and regression analyses of survey…
Topics: Gender, Parenting
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Despite the fact that not having a partner is a strong predictor for remaining childless, few studies have explored the heterogeneity of partnership trajectories among childless persons. This article fills the gap in knowledge about the pathways to childlessness in Central Europe by exploring the within-group diversity of partnership trajectories among childless persons between the ages of 18 and 40 under state socialism and during the post-1989 transformation in the Czech Republic. Based on data from the Gend…
Topics: Family
Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people: restricted or transforming imaginations?
This article explores young people’s imaginations of their future family life. Based on qualitative research among young people in North Bohemia, it considers social reproduction and change within the domain of gendered labour and parenting. This is done on the backdrop of post-1989 transformation of Czech society, where drives towards individualisation and diversification of the life course stand against discourses and policies supporting separate gender roles. Through the analytical lenses of gendered rela…
Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Parenting, Family, Social Policy
Kdo plánuje jedináčka a kdo chce zůstat bezdětný? Faktory ovlivňující nízké reprodukční plány mužů a žen
Remaining childless or having just one child are two different experiencesand each is attached to a different social status. However, they canalso be viewed through a unifying lens as phenomena that contribute to lowfertility. Theories that seek to explain low fertility often attribute both phenomenato the same causes. This article examines what factors are connectedto a person’s intention to remain childless or to have just one child andwhether it is possible to consider intentions to remain childless or ha…
Topics: Parenting
Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia
The paper discusses how selective pronatalism has been incorporated into childcare and reproductive health policies in the socialist state of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). It answers the question of how pronatalist framing has been used to categorise ‘others’, whose procreation has been deemed undesirable. It pays attention to the ways limitations on women’s bodily and social citizenship were used as a tool of selective pronatalism, as well as how the pronatalist framing was linked to the framing of wome…
Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family, Social Policy
Nájemní domácí práce v kontextu genderových vztahů, postsocialistického vývoje rodinné politiky a ideálů péče
Text se věnuje formujícímu se trhu s nájemní domácí prací v postsocialistickém prostoru v kontextu genderových nerovností. Diskutován je vliv rodinné a populační politiky a kultury péče o děti na formování trhu s nájemní domácí prací.The text deals with hired domestic work in the context of gender inequalities in the post-socialist space. The influence of childcare and population policies and childcare culture on the formation of the market with hired domestic work is discussed.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Family
Factors contributing to unfulfilment of and changes in fertility intentions in Czechia
Objectives. Achieved fertility is lower than intended fertility in Europe. The factors contributing to this mismatch are thus an important research topic. The objective of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to the unfulfilment of short-term fertility intentions and to changes in the intended number of children to improve our understanding of the mismatch between achieved and intended fertility in Czechia.Material and methods. Binary logistic regression is applied to data on people aged 18-45…
Topics: Parenting, Family
Kde se berou jedináčci? Faktory související s jednodětností v ČR
Článek shrnuje poznání o fenoménu jednodětnosti a rozvíjí poznání o jednodětnosti v ČR. Na základě Sčítání lidu z roku 2011 a reprezentativního výzkumu životních drah analyzuje faktory související s jednodětností a plánem mít jedináčka. Výsledky ukazují, že jsou matky jedináčků méně často než stejně staré matky více dětí vdané, žijí častěji ve větších městech, mají vyšší vzdělání a pracují častěji v některých typech profesí. Faktory souvisejíc…
Topics: Parenting, Family
Intersekcionální přístup ve zkoumání sociálních nerovností
Topics: Social Inequalities
Intersekcionální přístup ke zkoumání nezaměstnanosti
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
Intersectional Approach in Social Inequalities Research
Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities
Zdravotní znevýhodnění, gender a vzdělání na trhu práce v intersekcionální perspektivě
Topics: Gender, Work, Public health
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