Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1)
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 6-14 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.251 
This text traces the development and implications of strategies of remembering the body in feminist theory, after what could be termed the somaphobia of early second-wave scholarship that saw attention to bodily matters as a potential point of ambush by hostile commentators. In reinstating the corporeal, however, all the conventional tropes of modernism that have both insisted on a conceptual split between mind and body, and recognised only one form of 'proper' embodiment, have been critiqued in the light of postmodernist modes of thought. The turn away from the rigid binaries and categories characteristic of the dominant ways of thinking - whether...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 15-28 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.252
This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country's late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked together to produce a socialist subject. On the first level, it analyses the expert anti-obesity discourse as an example of the expertisation of public discourse in socialist Czechoslovakia. Second, it shows the construction of obesity in contrast to bodily ability, and the stigmatisation of the 'fat' body. On the last level, the article focuses on the gendered...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 29-40 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.253
This article investigates visual, bodily, and cultural representations of Russian women in public media and takes the TV character 'Red' from the popular American TV show Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) as an example. The central points of discussion are the figure's racialisation and culturalisation. This article analyses how Red's body, mindset, and character are produced as Russian against the background of contemporary new Cold War discourses. It argues that Red is staged as a racialised Russian other, through the emphasis on her gendered heterosexual body, within a sexually and racially diverse group of imprisoned Americans in the show. Moreover,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 41-52 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.254
The paper explores the relationship between normalising bodies and normalising political orders by investigating medical discourses in Germany in the second half of the 19th century. It argues that medical scientists not only presented knowledge about bodies, health, and pathologies, but also used this knowledge to promote a specific form of political order as the 'true' and 'proper' political order. In the paper, discourses from two different medical fields are analysed. The first part focuses on physiology, because it was not only key in promoting new medicine as a natural science, but also because many of its proponents were involved in the revolution...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 53-62 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.255
The paper aims to demonstrate how the techniques of disciplinary power in prenatal care affect pregnant women. I will illustrate my argument using the results of ethnographic research conducted at the Division of Risk Pregnancy at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in a hospital in Central Slovakia. The analysis of ethnographic material indicates that although pregnant women are objectified and disciplined in prenatal care, they consider and evaluate the practices of the medical staff. Prenatal care interferes with other social roles which pregnant women play in their life. I interpret the ethnographic material in terms of the concept of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 63-76 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.256
The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre's production of space and Butler's theory of performativity. Our results are based on interviews with 16 visually...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 77-88 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.257
The heteronormative order is based on the categorisation of people into men and women. The categories of man and woman are understood as given, fixed, ahistorical, and universal. Trans* identities represent a 'border area' where categories of woman, man, and binary differentiation between 'male' and 'female' bodies are redefined and re-established. This article is based on an analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with trans people in the Czech republic. The first part of the article is focused on the ways in which trans* people relate to their bodies. The second part discusses the gender aspects of hormonal body modification. The third part raises...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 96-99
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 99-102
Book Review of Šmídová, I., Šlesingerová, E., Slepičková, L. Games of Life. Czech Reproductive Biomedicine. Sociological Perspectives. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 103-105
Book Review of Butler, J. Trampoty s rodom. Feminizmus a podrývanieidentity. Bratislava: Aspekt, 2015.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 105-108
Book Review of Dudová, R. Postarat se ve stáří.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 108-112
Recenze knihy:Smetáčková, Irena (ed.). 2015. Stínová zpráva o stavu genderovérovnosti v České republice v roce 2015. Praha: Česká ženská lobby.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 108-112
Book Review of Scheller-Boltz, D. (ed.). New Approaches to Gender and Queer Research in Slavonic Studies.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 96-99
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 99-104
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 104-108
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2016, 17 (1): 89-95 | DOI: 10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.258
