Detailed Information on Publication Record
2016
Bumbling Idiots or Evil Masterminds? Challenging Cold War Stereotypes about Women, Sexuality and State Socialism
GHODSEE, Kristen and Kateřina LIŠKOVÁBasic information
Original name
Bumbling Idiots or Evil Masterminds? Challenging Cold War Stereotypes about Women, Sexuality and State Socialism
Authors
GHODSEE, Kristen (840 United States of America) and Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY-FILOZOFIJA I DRUSTVO, Beograd, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Beograd University, 2016, 0353-5738
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50403 Social topics
Country of publisher
Serbia
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/16:00088274
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000408372100001
Keywords in English
Cold War; common knowledge; state socialism; anti-communism; women; family; gender; sexuality; Eastern Europe; communism
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 1/11/2019 13:59, Mgr. Michal Petr
Abstract
V originále
In academic writing, facts about the past generally require the citation of relevant sources unless the fact or idea is considered “common knowledge:” bits of information or dates upon which there is a wide scholarly consensus. This brief article reflects on the use of “common knowledge” claims in contemporary scholarship about women, families, and sexuality as experienced during 20th century, East European, state socialist regimes. We focus on several key stereo- types about the communist state and the situation of women that are often asserted in the scholarly literature, and argue that many of these ideas uncannily resemble American anti-communist propaganda. When contemporary scholars make claims about communist intrusions into the private sphere to effect social engineering or the inefficacy of state socialist mass organizations or communist efforts to break up the family or indoctrinate the young, they often do so without citation to previous sources or empirical evidence supporting their claims, thereby suggesting that such claims are “common knowledge.” We believe that those wishing to assert such claims should link these assertions to concrete originating sources, lest it turn out the “common knowledge” derives, in fact, from western Cold War rhetoric.
Links
| GJ16-10639Y, research and development project |
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