"Against the Dignity of Man." Sexology Constructing Deviance during "Normalization"

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. "Against the Dignity of Man." Sexology Constructing Deviance during "Normalization". In Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison. Queer Presences and Absences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 13-30. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. ISBN 978-0-230-30254-9.

Basic information

• Original name: "Against the Dignity of Man." Sexology Constructing Deviance during "Normalization"
• Name in Czech: Proti důstojnosti člověka. Sexuologie konstruuje deviaci během normalizace
• Authors: LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Basingstoke, Queer Presences and Absences, p. 13-30, 18 pp. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences, 2013.
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: chapter readable on google scholar
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/13:00072504
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30254-9
• Keywords in English: sexuality; gender; deviance; Czechoslovakia; sexology; communism
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

In this chapter, I analyze sexological texts written and published during ‘normalization’ (1969-89). My aim is to juxtapose normalization as a historical era with the scientific understanding of its opposite, deviance. Analyzing the discursive renderings of sexual deviance as articulated by the discipline of sexology, I explore the ways in which sexual (and implicitly gender) normalcy was constructed. Also, I capture tensions between the categories of the normal and deviant and its presence and absence in Czechoslovak sexological discourse.

Abstract (in Czech)

Vtéto kapitole analyzuji českoslovesnké sexuologické texty, jež byly napsány a publikovány v období normalizace (1969-89). Mým cílem je postavit proti sobě normalizaci coby historickou epochu a vědecké porozumění jejímu opozitu, toiž deviaci. Prostřednictvím analýzy diskursů sexuální deviace, tak jak je artikulovali sexuologové, zkoumám způsoby, kterými byla konstruována normalita, a to jak sexuální, tak genderová. V analyze se zaměřuji na tense a nejednoznačnosti, které kategorie normálního a deviantního vyvolávala a na jejich přítomnost a nepřítomnost v československém sexuologickém diskursu.