Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 3-24 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.011 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 126-149 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.002
The study analyses the distinct contributions of women to the work of Charter 77 and emphasises its intellectual dimension. An important space for women to develop their own strategies was that of the apartment communities (or ‘salons’), which were primarily organised by women, combining the role of organiser and intellectual in one person. The study also examines these women’s reflections on their involvement in the work of this human rights initiative and the community that formed around it from the start. An important issue is their experience with repression and imprisonment – whether of them personally or of their partners....
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 194-200
Recenze knihy: Lóránd, Z., Hîncu, A., Mihajlovic Trbove, J., Stanczak-Wislicz, K. (eds.). 2024. Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Budapest: CEU Press.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 187-193
Recenze knihy: Gyárfášová, O. 2023. Ako sme žili v rokoch normalizácie. Rozhovory s aktérkami spolocenstvavzdoru. Bratislava: ASPEKT.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 178-186 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.010
The article examines two cases: a 1988 camping trip to the Polish seaside town of Mielno – known as ‘the first lesbian convention’ – and the 2023 play Lesbian Sunset, directed by Olga Ciężkowska2, which re-enacts this event. Staging recent queer herstory in the theatre can be considered a form of engaged research that – as Maria Kobielska has written – can illuminate ‘a grey area’ of memory culture. The example of Mielno offers an opportunity to revisit the history of the final years of the Polish People’s Republic and the period of political transformation from the perspective of non-heteronormative...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 164-177 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.012
This essay examines the role of archival ethnographic films of Hungarian folk dance and music in the production of cultural memory. Drawing on short-term, immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Hungary, I delineate the role of these films in preserving folk culture and cultivating national identity. I argue that archival ethnographic films function as a technology through which an ‘imagined Hungarianness’ is constructed, embodied, and transmitted. Through examples of contemporary folk dancing, I demonstrate how archival media continues to enforce a fixed notion of authenticity deeply intertwined with ethno-nationalism, heteronormativity, and...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 150-163 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.009
This study examines the endurance of the ‘Liberation’ narrative in Bulgaria through a postcolonial reading of the Monument to Bulgarian–Soviet Friendship in Varna. It foregrounds what the monument debates often overlook: not only what these sites commemorate, but how they teach subjects to feel history. It argues that the monument operates as colonial pedagogy, rendering geopolitical hierarchy affectively compelling by mobilising gendered imperial repertoires. It reveals a palimpsestic memory structure in which imperial, nationalist, and socialist meanings accumulate. Within this layered formation, the ‘Liberator’ emerges...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 102-125 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.003
Women have long been central to independence struggles, yet their contributions are routinely erased. Kosovo is no exception. This article shows that the exclusion of Kosovo- Albanian women from the national master narrative is not incidental but a structured effect of the nexus between nation‑building, militarisation, and gendered memory politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Prishtina and feminist theories of nationalism and memory, the following paper demonstrates how post‑war commemorative culture elevates the militarised male ‘freedom fighter’ while confining women to two permissible positions: revered mothers of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 75-101 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.005
The paper examines the changes in street names honouring women who were active in the workers’ movement in Hungary. It traces the urban memory of one eminent figure, Anna Koltói, across the main historical waves of street (re-)namings in Budapest between 1945 and 2022. Amidst the commemorations of socialist martyrs after the war, several streets were named after Koltói. The early 1990s saw the restoration of pre-war names, thuserasing her name from the inner districts of Budapest. In the recent memory politics after 2010, some districts continued to replace Koltói’s name, while others restored it. Situating the analysis in the scholarship...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 51-74 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.004
The article examines current competing memories and gendered narratives of the state-socialist draconian pro-natalist policies in Romania in the current context of increasingly restricted reproductive rights. The focus of this analysis is the digital project Jurnalul Decretului (The Journal of the Decree) undertaken by a group of investigative journalists from 2019 to 2021. I distinguish two patterns of remembering, which illustrate two competing views regarding women’s reproductive rights. First, through women’s recollections on digital platforms of previously silenced memories of illegal abortions and their dire consequences for their...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 25-50 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.008
Women’s history has long been marginalised in dominant narratives, with archives and institutional memory omitting or minimising women’s contributions. Recognising and documenting women’s roles across warfare, social movements, science, and culture is essential to shaping collective memory and challenging persistent gender bias. The digitalisation of archives and memory practices has democratising potential, expanding accessibility, diversity, and global engagement with women’s histories. Online platforms transcend geographical and institutional barriers, integrating testimonies and artefacts in multimedia formats that foster...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 163-167
Článek nabízí stručnou reflexi víkendové konference PáSoNetka, pořádané Sekcí mladých lékařů České lékařské komory, zaměřené na profesně mladé lékaře a lékařky. Text se soustředí na význam efektivní komunikace s pacienty a pacientkami v kontextu každodenní klinické praxe, v níž je na komunikaci často vymezen pouze omezený časový prostor. Autorský tým poukazuje na to, že navzdory těmto limitům hraje kvalitní komunikace klíčovou roli nejen ve spokojenosti pacientek a pacientů, ale také v budování důvěry a vytváření profesionálního vztahu, který je předpokladem pozitivního vlivu na zdravotní stav.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 159-163
Zpráva referuje o mezinárodním kongresu, který se uskutečnil na začátku června ve Španělsku pod záštitou Barcelonské univerzity. Kongres se zaměřoval na Gender, Sexualities and Audiences a přinesl pozoruhodné poznatky nejen z feministických a queer perspektiv, ale taktéž z perspektiv kulturních studií.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 152-158
Book review of Gallant, C., Lam, E. 2024. Not Your Rescue Project. Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. Not Your Rescue Project, by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam, with a foreword by Harsha Walia and a postscript by Robyn Maynard, restores the mutual solidarity work and theoretical framework underpinning the Butterfly Project, an initiative formed by sex workers, social workers, and legal and health professionals to support the rights of Asian and migrant sex workers. This is therefore a work grounded in empirical foundations drawn from a vast array of lived experiences. Published by Haymarket Books in 2024, the book serves...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 133-151 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.021
This essay offers an ethical and philosophical framework for researchers, policy-makers, film-makers, and writers working on the topic of sex work. It argues that in order to provide a more accurate and useful representation of the industry, three philosophical shifts have to take place. The first shift is from stigmatising sex workers to picturing them as complex, diverse, and whole human beings. The societal gaze upon sex workers tends to depict them as undesirables who have to be hidden, deviants who have to be cured, or victims who have to be saved. To challenge this stigmatisation process, I use Martin Buber’s concept of the I-Thou relationship,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 117-132 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.017
This article explores the formation and activism of the Berlin Strippers Collective (BSC), now known as Slut Riot. The author, writing from his perspective as a trans sex worker and core member of the Collective’s founding network, explains how the BSC arose in the context of German sex-worker association and activism. Drawing on an autoethnographic method, he uses his personal experience with the group as a basis for the article. The political goals of the BSC are explained, which include combatting Sex-Work-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist (SWERF) ideas and pushing for decriminalisation by decreasing the stigma surrounding sex work. Next,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 88-116 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.018
In an era of increasing content restrictions across digital platforms, specialised Reddit forums have emerged as spaces for queer individuals to express their sexuality, build connections, and market sexual content. While many mainstream social media networks restrict sexual or nude content, Reddit’s moderation structure allows for designated spaces where sexual content can exist. This paper explores the subcultures of three prominent queer and trans-centred NSFW (‘not safe for work’) Reddit communities (subreddits): r/transporn, r/FtMPorn, and r/EnbyLewds. We examined how these digital spaces function simultaneously as sites...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 61-87 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.019
Over the past two decades, there have been attempts to organise sex workers in trade unions in Germany. Still, it is a complex and challenging issue, as they are often affected by stigmatisation and discrimination and have difficulties representing and protecting their interests. This article analyses the challenges and opportunities of organising sex workers in Germany, a country that is at the centre of public debate on prostitution and its regulation due to its current discussions about a possible ban on the purchase of sex. It is based on two case studies as initial findings from a doctoral project in which qualitative interviews with sex workers...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 35-60 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.020
This article presents an ethnographic study of an association in Paris that supports sex workers. Drawing on literature on Marxist feminism of social reproduction and humanitarianism, this paper analyses how the association became economically dependent on government institutions after 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and shows how this led the association to adopt sexual humanitarianism over community-led approaches. The author explores how the association’s relationship with sex workers operates in a top-down manner, as this relationship is framed not as one between workers, but rather as one between rescuers and those vulnerable individuals...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 13-34 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.016
This article discusses the phenomenon of currency prostitution in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1980s, a period marked by glasnost – a policy of wider dissemination of information initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev – and increased public discourse on sexuality. The growing visibility of currency prostitutes in the mass media – predominantly women who engaged in relationships with foreigners in exchange for hard currency – challenged the state’s narrative of economic equality and justice. Drawing on declassified Soviet archival materials, media reports, legal decrees, and Soviet-era films, this study examines how hard currency...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 2-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.023
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 2-11 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.014
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 110-126 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.008
Studies of the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and surveillance have increased in the past ten years. I am overall wondering what we fear and feel about AI and surveillance? Yet, fears and feelings are complicated research questions. To address those complications and contribute an affective analysis to existing research on surveillance, I analyse two horror films – Child’s Play (Klevberg 2019) and M3GAN (Johnstone 2023) – that directly criticise the relationship between mothering, surveillance, and panoptic control. Child’s Play and M3GAN are also important cultural productions for exploring panoptic affects in...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 85-109 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.009
This article explores how feminist actors in Slovakia use Instagram to sustain politically engaged digital practices in a national context marked by institutional neglect and rising anti-gender discourse. While much scholarship on digital feminism has centred on An-glophone contexts and high-profile influencers, this study focuses on users operating outside mainstream visibility, who maintain a feminist presence not through spectacle but through careful negotiation with the platform’s emotional, aesthetic, and algorithmic demands. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the analysis shows how these users adapt to Instagram’s infrastructural pressures...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 59-84 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.007
This study explores the developments of digital feminist activism in Slovakia and Czechia amidst rising anti-gender rhetoric and anti-NGOism. In the climate of polit-ical change over the past five years, women in both countries began using Instagram to raise awareness of gender-based violence, harassment, and sexism. Through interviews with digital activists, this research examines the online dynamics of these networked publics. It analyses activists’ strategies for navigating public/private boundaries and balancing individual and collective efforts in a corporate-controlled online space. Despite the challenges posed by Instagram’s influencer-driven...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 35-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.006
Mass media such as radio blurs the distinction between the public and the private. This article explores the gendered soundscape of a participatory radio campaign in Northern Uganda, which aimed to empower women and initiate debates on gender norms, including gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy, and women’s entrepreneurship. Draw-ing on feminist critiques of the public and private spheres, we explore the impact of radio on women’s empowerment. Ethnographic research found that participatory radio has the capacity to create a sense of community, an ‘intimate public sphere’, and critical consciousness about denied choices...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 12-34 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.005
Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a common condition that combines such symptoms as absent or irregular menstruation, elevated levels of ‘male’ hormones, excess facial and body hair, and problems with glucose metabolism. Receiving a PCOS diagnosis can be a disorienting experience. This article focuses on this medical condition to explore the role of different digital technologies in managing women’s health across public and private domains. Relying on seventeen semi-structured interviews with Danish women, I suggest that self-tracking mobile applications and social media provide PCOS patients with different modes of caring...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 208-212
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 203-207
Kniha „Designing Parental Leave Policy: The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood“ autorek Berit Brandt a Elin Kvande zkoumá vliv norské politiky rodičovské na genderovou rovnost a otcovství. Autorky analyzují, jak norský model, který zahrnuje speciálně vyhrazenou část rodičovské pro otce (tzv. otcovská kvóta), podporuje aktivní zapojení otců do péče o děti a jak tento přístup přispívá k přetváření tradičních genderových rolí v rodinném životě. Kniha se zaměřuje na výzvy spojené s vyvážením pracovního a rodinného života a zkoumá, jak politika rodičovské může pomoci vytvořit rovnost mezi muži a ženami nejen na úrovni domácnosti,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (1): 199-203
Recenze knihy: Hester, H., Srnicek, N. 2023. After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. London, New York: Verso Books.
