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The politics of gender culture under state socialism : an expropriated voice / edited by Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová

Havelková, Hana, 1949-2020 [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Oates-Indruchová, Libora, 1965- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

1 Online-Ressource (x, 264 Seiten)

Englisch

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech society, 1948-89; PART I Gender as a social category; 2 The three stages of gender in law; 3 Women's organizations in the Czech lands, 1948-89: an historical perspective; 4 State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism

5 Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a 'Czech socialist woman' in women's accounts of state socialismPART II Gender as a symbolic category; 6 The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective; 7 Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989; 8 The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism; 9 The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová

10 The AIDSed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist CzechoslovakiaIndex

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-315-81917-4

978-0-415-72083-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.4324/9781315819174

HQ1610.3 .P65 2014

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Women -- Social conditions -- Czech Republic ; Sex role -- History -- 20th century -- Czech Republic ; Women -- Social conditions -- Central Europe ; Sex role -- History -- 20th century -- Central Europe

Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist gender pr