Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 3-24 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.011 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 25-50 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.008
Women’s history has long been marginalised in dominant narratives, with archives and institutional memory omitting or minimising women’s contributions. Recognising and documenting women’s roles across warfare, social movements, science, and culture is essential to shaping collective memory and challenging persistent gender bias. The digitalisation of archives and memory practices has democratising potential, expanding accessibility, diversity, and global engagement with women’s histories. Online platforms transcend geographical and institutional barriers, integrating testimonies and artefacts in multimedia formats that foster...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 51-74 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.004
The article examines current competing memories and gendered narratives of the state-socialist draconian pro-natalist policies in Romania in the current context of increasingly restricted reproductive rights. The focus of this analysis is the digital project Jurnalul Decretului (The Journal of the Decree) undertaken by a group of investigative journalists from 2019 to 2021. I distinguish two patterns of remembering, which illustrate two competing views regarding women’s reproductive rights. First, through women’s recollections on digital platforms of previously silenced memories of illegal abortions and their dire consequences for their...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 75-101 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.005
The paper examines the changes in street names honouring women who were active in the workers’ movement in Hungary. It traces the urban memory of one eminent figure, Anna Koltói, across the main historical waves of street (re-)namings in Budapest between 1945 and 2022. Amidst the commemorations of socialist martyrs after the war, several streets were named after Koltói. The early 1990s saw the restoration of pre-war names, thuserasing her name from the inner districts of Budapest. In the recent memory politics after 2010, some districts continued to replace Koltói’s name, while others restored it. Situating the analysis in the scholarship...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 102-125 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.003
Women have long been central to independence struggles, yet their contributions are routinely erased. Kosovo is no exception. This article shows that the exclusion of Kosovo- Albanian women from the national master narrative is not incidental but a structured effect of the nexus between nation‑building, militarisation, and gendered memory politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Prishtina and feminist theories of nationalism and memory, the following paper demonstrates how post‑war commemorative culture elevates the militarised male ‘freedom fighter’ while confining women to two permissible positions: revered mothers of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 126-149 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.002
The study analyses the distinct contributions of women to the work of Charter 77 and emphasises its intellectual dimension. An important space for women to develop their own strategies was that of the apartment communities (or ‘salons’), which were primarily organised by women, combining the role of organiser and intellectual in one person. The study also examines these women’s reflections on their involvement in the work of this human rights initiative and the community that formed around it from the start. An important issue is their experience with repression and imprisonment – whether of them personally or of their partners....
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 150-163 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.009
This study examines the endurance of the ‘Liberation’ narrative in Bulgaria through a postcolonial reading of the Monument to Bulgarian–Soviet Friendship in Varna. It foregrounds what the monument debates often overlook: not only what these sites commemorate, but how they teach subjects to feel history. It argues that the monument operates as colonial pedagogy, rendering geopolitical hierarchy affectively compelling by mobilising gendered imperial repertoires. It reveals a palimpsestic memory structure in which imperial, nationalist, and socialist meanings accumulate. Within this layered formation, the ‘Liberator’ emerges...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 164-177 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.012
This essay examines the role of archival ethnographic films of Hungarian folk dance and music in the production of cultural memory. Drawing on short-term, immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Hungary, I delineate the role of these films in preserving folk culture and cultivating national identity. I argue that archival ethnographic films function as a technology through which an ‘imagined Hungarianness’ is constructed, embodied, and transmitted. Through examples of contemporary folk dancing, I demonstrate how archival media continues to enforce a fixed notion of authenticity deeply intertwined with ethno-nationalism, heteronormativity, and...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 178-186 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.010
The article examines two cases: a 1988 camping trip to the Polish seaside town of Mielno – known as ‘the first lesbian convention’ – and the 2023 play Lesbian Sunset, directed by Olga Ciężkowska2, which re-enacts this event. Staging recent queer herstory in the theatre can be considered a form of engaged research that – as Maria Kobielska has written – can illuminate ‘a grey area’ of memory culture. The example of Mielno offers an opportunity to revisit the history of the final years of the Polish People’s Republic and the period of political transformation from the perspective of non-heteronormative...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 187-193
Recenze knihy: Gyárfášová, O. 2023. Ako sme žili v rokoch normalizácie. Rozhovory s aktérkami spolocenstvavzdoru. Bratislava: ASPEKT.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 194-200
Recenze knihy: Lóránd, Z., Hîncu, A., Mihajlovic Trbove, J., Stanczak-Wislicz, K. (eds.). 2024. Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Budapest: CEU Press.
