Sex under Socialism. From Emancipation of Women to Normalized Families in Czechoslovakia.

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Sex under Socialism. From Emancipation of Women to Normalized Families in Czechoslovakia. Sexualities. SAGE, 2016, Vol. 19, 1-2, s. 211-235. ISSN 1363-4607. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460715614246.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Sex under Socialism. From Emancipation of Women to Normalized Families in Czechoslovakia.
• Autoři: LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí).
• Vydání: Sexualities, SAGE, 2016, 1363-4607.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Stát vydavatele: Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL URL
• Impakt faktor: Impact factor: 0.922
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14230/16:00090530
• Organizační jednotka: Fakulta sociálních studií
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460715614246
• UT WoS: 000368833300013
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Czechoslovakia; Eastern Europe; sexology; sexual advice books; sexuality and gender; socialism
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

Sexuality in communist Czechoslovakia was to a large extent informed by an expert discourse of sexology. Analyzing sexual advice books published by sexologists for the general public in the 1950s and 1970s, I show that sexual discourses were formed in a reversed order of liberalization vs. conservatism as compared to the West. While writing on sex in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s stressed gender equality and emancipa- tion of women, the texts published in the 1970s insisted on the necessity of gender hierarchy for a successful marriage and defended privatized families isolated from larger society. I link these shifts to the changing character of the regime which moved from accentuating public, work and equality in the 1950s to emphasizing private, family and authority in the 1970s. In my analysis, I use the concepts of psy-ences (Rose, 1992, 1996) and intimacy at the intersection of the public/private divide (Berlant and Warner, 1998), while also accounting for their blind spots. Where Rose insists that psy-ences have operated exclusively in modern liberal capitalist societies, I argue that a psy-ence of sexology also co-constituted social life under state socialism. My article analyzes Czechoslovak sexual and gender trajectories and accounts for differences from and convergences with 20th-century western histories of sexuality. I critically examine Czechoslovak sexological discourses in their changing historical settings to show that there was not one ‘communist period,’ even in one country. Rather, there existed varying modes of framing sexuality at different times.