Sex during Communism. Intimate Life and the Power of Expertise

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Sex during Communism. Intimate Life and the Power of Expertise. In 11th International Interdisciplinary Meeting on Bioanalysis. 2014.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Sex during Communism. Intimate Life and the Power of Expertise

Autoři

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina

Vydání

11th International Interdisciplinary Meeting on Bioanalysis, 2014

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

50000 5. Social Sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/14:00084060

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

sex-power-expertise

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Mezinárodní význam

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Anotace

V originále

Sexuality seems to be something innate and biological, as if it were around in the same form since the dawn of time. Research in the social sciences, however, has shown persuasively that what people perceive as sex, the ways in which they understand themselves as sexual beings and even sexual practices change across time and place. Moreover, sexuality might be perceived as the innermost part of ourselves but its forms and expressions are strongly culturally mediated. Sex is formed by society and, conversely, we can make sense of the broader social arrangements if we study sexuality. What did, then, sex during communism look like? What was seen as normal and deviant? How did these perceptions change over time? On the case of Czechoslovakia between the years 1948 and 1989, I will show the ways in which sex changed in connection to the shifts in the regime and its priorities.