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Women´s Non-governmental Organizations and Women´s Groups in Left- and Right- wing Social Movements
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
Gender a rozvoj
Topics: Gender, Globalization
Globalizace a gender
Topics: Gender, Globalization
Řekni, kde ty ženy jsou: gender a válka
Text se zabývá vztahem genderu a války a konkrétně se zaměřuje na aktivní roli žen ve válce. Snaží se odpovědět na otázku, zda mohou ženy bojovat a proč jsou z válčení vyloučeny. Ptá se také, jestli válka a účast žen v armádě a boji přispívá k ženské emancipaci. Na několika klíčových případech z různých kultur a historických období ukazuje, že ženy, ačkoli jsou z boje systematicky vylučovány, se ve válce projevily jako schopné bojovnice. Na řadě přípa…
Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes
Hudební subkultury mládeže v současné ČR - possubkulturní či postsocialistické?
Topics: Value Orientations, Identity, Culture, Lifestyle
Protest proti globalizaci: gender a feministická kritika
The book addresses a question what is the connection between anti-globalization and feminist critique of globalization. Firstly, globalization and its relation to social movements is defined. The aspects of contemporary anti-globalization movement are outlined (particularly the ideological frames, composition of movement, collective identity, tactics and forms of organization), and the specificities of the Czech anti-globalization activism are analyzed with regard to significant protest events (Global street p…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work
Revolta stylem: Hudební subkultury mládeže v současné ČR
The book focuses on subcultures, in particular on youth music subcultures in the contemporary Czech Republic. It presents traditional and postmodern theories and approaches to the study of subcultures that have been developed both in the Western and Czech post-socialist contexts. It addresses issues of values, politicization of subcultures, their inner differentiation and relation to social structure and alternative lifestyles.For case studies, the authors selected the four most prevalent music subcultures in …
Topics: Value Orientations, Identity, Culture, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle
Aktivistický proud feministického hnutí v ČR
The author contributes to the discussion on the second or third wave character of the feminist movement in Czech Republic. She describes the development of activist feminist movement against the backdrop of more than ten years working academic and NGO’s activities and the radical left. In the end she argues for the analogy to the US second wave feminism developments.…
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
Gender Representation in the Alternative Media of the Anti-Globalisation Movement
The article is focused on the visual gender representation in the anti-globalisation movement by the alternative media. British and Czech alternative magazines are compared. The anti-globalisation struggle is represented as gendered and traditional gender roles are reproduced in the alternative media. Women are mostly associated with non-violent actions while men are often depicted as fighters. The violent protest is considered more effective and important.…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Media, Civil Society
Gender and Globalisation: Labour Changes in the Global Economy
The article focuses on gender aspects of globalisation and global restructuring and criticises the masculine bias of mainstream theories of globalisation. It is aimed at adding a global dimension to Czech gender studies. It looks at the way in which globalisation is gendered and based on gender ideologies, and how global restructuring affects and change gender systems. Primarily economic globalisation is addressed, and the changes in the organisation of labour globally are examined. Global production is depend…
Topics: Gender, Globalization
Globální muž a lokální žena? Feministický pohled na globalizaci
The paper presents a feminist critique of globalization. The mainstream theories of globalization have a masculine bias. Bringing gender aspects to globalization characterizes global actors and creates a framework for global issues. Mostly the economic globalization and the changes of the organization of labour globally are addressed. The link between the hegemonic form of masculinity and feminized production is described. The global production is dependent on cheap women’s work in factories of transnational…
Topics: Gender, Globalization
Gender v protestu sociálních hnutí proti globalizaci
The paper is a review of literature on gender aspects of social movement's protest against globalization. It divides the movements according to gender of participants to grassroots women's movements against globalization, gender-neutral anti-globalization movement and masculine movements that express anti-globalization stance. It focuses specifically on activism against sweatshop labor and its transnational networks, connections, and its positive and negative effects. It analyses the gender aspects of th…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society
Na křižovatce nerovností: gender, třída, rasa/etnicita
This article focuses on the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities. The intersection theory draws on the feminist critique of traditional class theory and on the challenge to feminism posed by ethnic women. The article develops thinking about various configurations of the intersection of inequalities and addresses mainly the case of marginalized women. However, the argument goes that the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities is not just a matter for disadvantaged gr…
Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities
Od globálního sesterství k transnacionálnímu feminismu: výzvy ženskému hnutí ve formě kulturních odlišností a nerovností mezi ženami
Transnational feminism has become a significant global actor in recent decades, but it is not unanimous. Imperial tendencies of western feminists to influence women in other cultures have already appeared in the history of the feminist movement. Criticism of white Euro-American feminism, especially in the form of global sisterhood, has reached a peak in the past three decades, especially in international fora. Anti-colonial feminists have complained about the racist and orientalist practices of American femini…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society
Influence and Marginality in Formalized and Informal Czech Women´s Civic Organizing
V článku se autorky zabývají tím, jakými způsoby ovlivňují sponzoři fungování českých ženských občanských skupin a organizací. Autorky analyzují vztah mezi organizovanými aktivitami a neformální podporou těchto skupin a organizací v postsocialistické ČR. Ačkoliv dokumentují zvyšující se tlak na formalizaci ženských občanských skupin, zaznamenávají také přetrvávající důležitost neformálních vztahů a osobních kontaktů pro úspěch ženských NNOs i neformálních…
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
The Activist Stream within the Feminist Movement in the Czech Republic at the Beginning of 21st Century
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
Fairies and Fighters: Gendered Tactics of the Alter-Globalisation Movement in Prague (2000) and Genoa (2001)
This paper examines gender aspects of tactics of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on two transnational collective actions in Prague in 2000 and in Genoa in 2001, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists and analysis of the movement's alternative media. The feminist activism within the movement, the gendered tactics and their representation in the alternative media are analysed using the concept of diffusion. Although feminists are involved in the protests, and l…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society
Sexuality Issues in the Czech Anarchist Movement
This paper focuses on the contemporary Czech anarchist movement''s relation to sexuality. Sexuality issues were for a long time absent or marginalized in the movement however, in the last years, the issue started to be addressed. I draw on my ethnographical study based on participant observation, analysis of the media of the movement and interviews with activists. Since the early 1990s, the movement was male dominated and strictly heterosexual where sexual relationships served as a mobilization of girls/women …
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
Between Confrontation and Frivolity? Gender and Militancy in the Czech Alter-globalization Movement
The paper examines gender aspects of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on demonstrations in Prague and Genoa, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists, analysis of the alternative media of the movement, and activist and scholarly literature. The participation of women and men, gender as a part of the agenda of the movement, feminist activism within the movement, and gendered tactics and outcomes are analyzed. Although women and feminists are involved in the prote…
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society
Only a Dead Fish Flows with the Stream: Subversive Voices, NGOization and Czech Women’s Organizing
Authors focus on Czech women’s organizing in recent years within context of increasing pressure on organizations to professionalize and become project-and reform-oriented. They discuss reasons for and consequences of changes in funding and orientation that have accompanied European enlargement. Then, they turn to a closer look at the interplay between increasingly professionalized women’s NGOs and explicitly anti-institutional groups of anarchofeminists.…
Topics: Gender
Sociální třída v médiích: relikt třídního boje, nebo zamlžený koncept?
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Social Inequalities
Vnímání a konstruování sociální třídy a zařazování se do třídy
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Identity, Social Inequalities
Metoda výzkumu
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities
Vnímání a utváření sociálních distancí a třídních nerovností v české společnosti
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Social Inequalities
Perception of Social Classes and Class Identification in the Czech Republic
The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. images of occupations and the society and using qualitative analysis 4. the perception of social classes and 5. how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes.…
Topics: Social Inequalities
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