Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 2-11 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.014 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 12-34 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.005
Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a common condition that combines such symptoms as absent or irregular menstruation, elevated levels of ‘male’ hormones, excess facial and body hair, and problems with glucose metabolism. Receiving a PCOS diagnosis can be a disorienting experience. This article focuses on this medical condition to explore the role of different digital technologies in managing women’s health across public and private domains. Relying on seventeen semi-structured interviews with Danish women, I suggest that self-tracking mobile applications and social media provide PCOS patients with different modes of caring...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 35-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.006
Mass media such as radio blurs the distinction between the public and the private. This article explores the gendered soundscape of a participatory radio campaign in Northern Uganda, which aimed to empower women and initiate debates on gender norms, including gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy, and women’s entrepreneurship. Draw-ing on feminist critiques of the public and private spheres, we explore the impact of radio on women’s empowerment. Ethnographic research found that participatory radio has the capacity to create a sense of community, an ‘intimate public sphere’, and critical consciousness about denied choices...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 59-84 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.007
This study explores the developments of digital feminist activism in Slovakia and Czechia amidst rising anti-gender rhetoric and anti-NGOism. In the climate of polit-ical change over the past five years, women in both countries began using Instagram to raise awareness of gender-based violence, harassment, and sexism. Through interviews with digital activists, this research examines the online dynamics of these networked publics. It analyses activists’ strategies for navigating public/private boundaries and balancing individual and collective efforts in a corporate-controlled online space. Despite the challenges posed by Instagram’s influencer-driven...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 85-109 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.009
This article explores how feminist actors in Slovakia use Instagram to sustain po-litically engaged digital practices in a national context marked by institutional neglect and rising anti-gender discourse. While much scholarship on digital feminism has centred on An-glophone contexts and high-profile influencers, this study focuses on users operating outside mainstream visibility, who maintain a feminist presence not through spectacle but through careful negotiation with the platform’s emotional, aesthetic, and algorithmic demands. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the analysis shows how these users adapt to Instagram’s infrastructural pressures...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 110-126 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.008
Studies of the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and surveillance have increased in the past ten years. I am overall wondering what we fear and feel about AI and surveillance? Yet, fears and feelings are complicated research questions. To address those complications and contribute an affective analysis to existing research on surveillance, I analyse two horror films – Child’s Play (Klevberg 2019) and M3GAN (Johnstone 2023) – that directly criticise the relationship between mothering, surveillance, and panoptic control. Child’s Play and M3GAN are also important cultural productions for exploring panoptic affects in...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 127-168 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.002
The gender pay gap (GPG) in the Czech Republic is relatively high in an international context. This paper focuses on analysing the GPG among higher education graduates using extensive datasets from a large-scale graduate survey conducted in the Czech Republic in 2018. Since the dataset includes information about the jobs graduates are in one year after graduation and several years later, we are able to observe changes in the level and structure of the GPG during the early career phase. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method, we found that the GPG is 22% for a set of variables related to employment one year after graduation and 28% for the set...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 169-192 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.001
Tento příspěvek se zabývá rodičovskou zkušeností s tranzicí dítěte. Zaměřuji se zde na rodičovské prožívání coming outu trans* dítěte, ambivalentní pocity ztráty a výčitek a vnímání sebe jako „dobrého rodiče“. Pro účely tohoto výzkumu byla provedena kvalitativní analýza rozhovorů s rodiči, jejichž dítě se identifikuje jako trans*. Na základě analýzy vyplývá, že pro některé rodiče je coming out dítěte překvapením, jiní již v útlém věku dítěte vnímali, že se jejich dcera či syn vyvíjí jiným způsobem, než považují za standardní. Často se období před coming outem pojí s psychickými potížemi dětí. Tranzice potomka představuje pro rodiče náročnou...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 193-198
Recenze knihy: Evans, A., Riley, S. 2023. Digital Feeling. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 199-203
Recenze knihy: Hester, H., Srnicek, N. 2023. After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. London, New York: Verso Books.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 203-207
Kniha „Designing Parental Leave Policy: The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood“ autorek Berit Brandt a Elin Kvande zkoumá vliv norské politiky rodičovské na genderovou rovnost a otcovství. Autorky analyzují, jak norský model, který zahrnuje speciálně vyhrazenou část rodičovské pro otce (tzv. otcovská kvóta), podporuje aktivní zapojení otců do péče o děti a jak tento přístup přispívá k přetváření tradičních genderových rolí v rodinném životě. Kniha se zaměřuje na výzvy spojené s vyvážením pracovního a rodinného života a zkoumá, jak politika rodičovské může pomoci vytvořit rovnost mezi muži a ženami nejen na úrovni domácnosti,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 208-212
