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The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice book cover

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The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism An Expropriated Voice

Edited By Hana Havelková, Libora Oates-Indruchová Copyright 2014
280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

Introduction  1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová  Part One: Gender as a social category  2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelková  3. Women’s organizations in the Czech lands, 1948–1989: an historical perspective Denisa Nečasová  4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism Věra Sokolová  5. Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism Kateřina Zábrodská  Part Two: Gender as a symbolic category  6. The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective Petr Roubal  7. Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism, and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989 Jan Matonoha  8. The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism Libora Oates-Indruchová  9. The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová Petra Hanáková  10. The AIDS-ed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist Czechoslovakia Kateřina Kolářová

Biography

Hana Havelková is a Sociologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Libora Oates-Indruchová is Reader at Palacký University, Czech Republic.

"This book of Czech experts on gender culture and politics during state socialism proposes a significant new view on life within a totalitarian regime in Central Europe. Focusing not only on ideology and politics but on social practice as well, the book is an important contribution to understanding the gap between official ideology and everyday life during particular stages of state socialism. The results of the newest research presented in the book significantly add to our understanding of former state socialist countries and totalitarian systems in general"

--Gabriela Dudekova, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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