Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research . X:X | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.003 
This study focuses on the specific conceptualisations of female heroism among Facebook users in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The material utilised in this study is drawn from an authentic corpus of written texts that exemplify the prevailing attitudes and perceptions of female heroism among Ukrainian Facebook users. We argue/suggest that the period of upheaval and crisis in Ukraine has had the effect of expanding the range of potential heroes and that the role of gender in the attribution of heroism has become less significant. The direct physical danger involved in engaging in combat is a key aspect in the conceptualisation of Ukrainian...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research . X:X | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.004
In this study, the author presents science fiction writers Eva Hauserová and Carola Biedermannová in the context of Czech feminism in the 1980s and 1990s. She proposes seeing their work and activity as an example of hybrid emancipation between the socialist emancipation of women (based on experience) and the Western feminist tradition. In the first part of the study, the author introduces the work of Carola Biedermannová and Eva Hauserová within the Czechoslovak science fiction fandom and shows that it was in this environment that they emerged as feminists in the late 1980s. In the next part, the author analyses the positions that these authors occupied...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research . X:X | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.015
In this article I describe the birthing experiences of twenty-five Czech women who desired ‘natural childbirth’. Adopting Zigon’s phenomenological-ontological perspective on moral experience, I aim to show how these women conceptualise ‘natural birth’ and accomplish related ideas during their birth through ethical enactments of multiple relationships with intra-human actors (the foetus, the birthing body, the placenta) and inter-human actors (the intimate partner, various birth care providers). These form moral assemblages, which allow us to see the birthing body as an inherently relational ethical space. The successful...
