Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, 2025 (vol. 26), issue 1

Editorial

Postdigital Intimacies: Gendered Perspectives on the Blurred Boundaries of Private and Public in the Digital Age

Vanda Černohorská, Nina Andrą Fárová, Lindsay Balfour

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 2-11 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.014  

Articles

‘This Feeling of Multidimensional Disease’: How Women with PCOS Narrate Their Experience with Self-Tracking Apps and Social \r\nMedia

Júlia Karpova

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 and...

Empowerment on Air: Challenging Gender Norms Through Participatory Radio in Northern Uganda

Vojtěch Gerlich, Mohazzab Abdullah

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 pri-vate. 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 conscious-ness about denied choices...

The Practices and Subjects of Feminist Digital Activism: Experiences from  Slovakia and Czechia

Veronika Valkovičová, Zuzana Maďarová

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...

Visible on Our Terms: Platformised Feminism and the Politics of Endurance

Karin Holosová

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...

Let’s Play Surveillance: The Panoptic Affect of Talking Dolls in the Domestic Sphere

AJ Castle

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 the...

Articles outside the special issue

The Gender Pay Gap among Higher Education Graduates in the Czech Republic

Karel Hanuą

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...

‘It’s My Child, a Person Will Do Everything for Their Own Child’: How Parents  Experience Their Child’s Transition

Nela Andresová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 169-192 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.001  

This paper explores the parent’s experience of their child’s transition. I focus here on parents’ experiences of their trans* child’s coming-out, the emergence of ambivalent fee-lings of loss and remorse, and perceptions of themselves as ‘good parents’. For this research, a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents whose child identifies as trans* was condu-cted. The analysis suggests that, for some parents, the child’s coming out came as a surprise, while others perceived at an early age that their daughter or son was developing in a diffe-rent way from what they considered to be the norm. The transition...

Reviews

Bread, Cats, and Postfeminism: Rethinking the Digital Affectivity with Evans and Riley

Michaela Fikejzová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 193-198  

Book review of Evans, A., Riley, S. 2023. Digital Feeling. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

This Elusiveness of Free Time: On the Feminist Futures of Technology and Care in After Work

Nataliia Lomonosova

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 199-203  

Review of book: Hester, H., Srnicek, N.  2023. After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. London, New York: Verso Books.

Designing Parental Leave Policy: The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood

Kateřina ©vihálková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 203-207  

Book review: Brandth, B., Kvande, E. (2022). Designing Parental Leave Policy: The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood. Bristol University Press.

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Conference Reflections: Navigating Time and Wellbeing in the Digital Age

Ruth Ogden, Sébastien Chappuis, Christine Schoetensack

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 208-212