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

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Zábrodská, Kateřina
Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism.
The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice. New York: Routledge, 2014 - (Havelková, H.; Oates-Indruchová, L.), s. 109-132. Routledge Research in Gender and Politics. ISBN 978-0-415-72083-0
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: critical discursive psychology * feminism * interpretative repertoires * state socialism * women’s identity
Kód oboru RIV: AN - Psychologie

This chapter examines the constructions of women’s identity manifest in archive interviews with twenty women on their experience of femininity and masculinity in a state-socialist society. Using critical discursive psychology (Edley, 2001; Wetherell, 1998, 2008), the author presents four main interpretative repertoires which the women employed to construct their identity through differentiation from Czech men as their main “Others”. Based on the analysis, the chapter challenges some of the habitually accepted claims about the self-perceptions of Czech women under state socialism. In particular, the author problematises the thesis of solidarity and harmony between Czech women and men under state socialism by drawing attention to the recognition of gender discrimination and inequality which featured strongly in the women’s accounts. It is argued that, despite the women’s abjection of feminism, the analysis demonstrates their desire to engage with gender issues and to challenge gender inequality in Czech society, albeit without feminism.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0230682