Detailed Information on Publication Record
2009
Changing Czech Masculinities? Beyond Environment And Children Friendly Men
ŠMÍDOVÁ, IvaBasic information
Original name
Changing Czech Masculinities? Beyond Environment And Children Friendly Men
Name in Czech
Změna českých maskulinit? Za hranice mužů přátelských přírodě a dětem
Authors
ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
1. vyd. New York, London, Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Subjectivity, Politics, p. 193-206, 14 pp. Routledge Research in Gender and Society, 2009
Publisher
Routledge
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize
Field of Study
50000 5. Social Sciences
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
printed version "print"
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/09:00035267
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
ISBN
978-0-415-99076-9
Keywords (in Czech)
maskulinity; gender; rodina; ochrana přírody; srovnání kvalitativních výzkumů
Keywords in English
masculinities; gender; family; environment protection; qualitative research comparison
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 26/1/2013 13:22, doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.
V originále
The chapter questions sometimes easily built connections between acquiring gender equality and reproduction of certain desired types and changes of other undesired types of masculine identities in the Czech Republic these days. The argument is largely based on two in-depth qualitative analyses of men employed in environment protection or ecological education, and of fathers on parental leave in the Czech Republic (research studies conducted in 1999-2001, respectively 2004). Both of these tracks in the life-course of men can indicate changes towards more gender equal arrangements as various other studies in the euroamerican cultural context have shown (Connell, Holter to name at least one of each). Reflecting the totalitarian past and its impact on Czech masculinities, the text points to clashes between individual mens actions and the overwhelming presence of societal structures gendered in a particular way. The structures of masculine domination are critically reviewed on two examples: 1) the symbolic power of language and its means towards grasping alternative life-course trajectories in the narratives of the interviewed men, and 2) the ambiguity of any direct connection of environment protection and/or paternal leave with gender equality in individuals actions in the Czech Republic. The data available limit the presentation to university educated heterosexual men living in families (with children), nevertheless the main goal is not to offer generalizable data on the Czech population, rather to point to trends in representations of Czech masculinities these days in respect to gender issues, based on the local context. Environment friendly men and fathers on parental leave can present a challenge to exploitative, misogynist forms of masculinities but they can also reproduce and even obtain forms that strongly support conventional mainstream essentialist approaches to gender (protective forms of masculinity or curtailed equality in families where childcare is shared but housework not etc.) supporting hierarchical gender relations. The presented analysis does not necessarily aim to bring new concepts or present unique individual experiences, rather it illustrates existing theoretical concepts (Harding, Butler, West/Zimmermann, Bem, Bourdieu, Badinter) on the particular Czech context. This may perhaps bring a bit different angle to the view represented by the countries reflected upon by these theorists, or it may come as a support of their views and conceptualisations and thus suggest to broaden their impact to countries that have only recently become again European citizens.
In Czech
Analytický rozbor změny a setrvání mužských identit v českém prostředí v oblasti ochrany přírody a v rodině. Text zdůrazňuje genderovou osu reprodukce statu quo a potenciál i omezení pro změny mužské sociální identity.
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