Suchergebnisse

Die Autorin untersucht die zehnjährige Geschichte der im Jahre 1990 gegründeten Republikanischen Partei der Tschechoslowakei (SPR-RSC), in welcher gleichzeitig wesentliche Aspekte einer Transformationsgesellschaft und ihrer politischen und gesellschaftlichen Probleme zum Tragen kommen. In der Analyse wird deutlich, dass die tschechischen Republikaner eine atypische Partei für eine atypische Zeit darstellten, die im Verlauf der Etablierung der neuen Gesellschaftsform anscheinend zum Untergang verurteilt war; dies um so mehr, als auch andere Parteien rechtsextreme Ideologeme in ihr Programm integrierten. Das Hauptproblem der Republikaner scheint nach Einschätzung der Autorin im Mangel einer politischen Agenda zu liegen, der jedoch mit einem Lernprozess der tschechischen BürgerInnen einher ging, die dem aggressiven politischen Stil und den sehr populistischen Versprechungen der Partei zunehmend ablehnend gegenüber stehen. Die Autorin beschreibt die Gründung der Partei und ihre antikommunistische Legitimierung, die Organisationsstruktur der Partei, ihre Krise und ihren Untergang, das Parteisystem, die Parteipräferenzen sowie die Wahlergebnisse im Zeitraum 1992 bis 1998. Sie analysiert ferner die WählerInnenstruktur der Partei und die politischen Einstellungen ihrer AnhängerInnen vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen und sozialen Situation der Frauen in der Tschechischen Republik. Sie nimmt darüber hinaus eine Textanalyse von Publikationen, Reden, Programmen und Konferenzen der Republikaner vor. (ICI2)

Analyzes the role of various categories of intelligentsia in establishing the terms of public discourse, as well as specific & general perceptions of the gender dimension of Czech politics & gender stereotypes in the context of politics. Data are drawn from articles explicitly dealing with the subject in the major Czech dailies & selected magazines. A typology of the attitudes embodied in these articles is developed, & their authors classified in terms of profession, sex, age, & political affiliations. Analysis confirms that media workers are weak in their response to public opinion & use of experts, & are principally aligned with attitudes directly derived from the sphere of politics. In relation to the issue of the political representation of women, the media has affected public discourse by both opening it &, paradoxically, blocking it. Nevertheless, gender stereotypes have been undergoing special modifications in the context of political representation.

Posits that the role of women as the bearers of strategies to transform the public sphere within the private sphere has been ignored but assumed in the context of postcommunist social transformation in the Czech Republic because of the omission of the public, private, & gender concepts as analytical sociological tools. The private-public relationship in modern society is addressed as an open process in which gender relations are not only formed, but in return, also form the connotations of these spheres according to gender understanding. On this theoretical base, possible ways of rethinking the model of the bourgeois family, which, in Czech society, has a normative power, are suggested with reference to Hanna Arendt's & Jurgen Habermas's concepts. Thus, the current process of socialism under changing conditions can be dealt with as a complex problem of interrelations between the private & public spheres.

"Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in Central East Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the 20th century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors, and agency involved in state socialist gender practices. Including a detailed case study on the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, contributors explore these issues in a series of independent, but collaboratively developed studies, placing their research in the context of other East Central European countries. The studies collected in the volume bring to light fresh material and consider it from the combined perspective of current gender theory and internal ideological dynamics of state socialism, breaking new ground in gender theory, cultural theory, and studies of state socialism.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, socialism, Cold-War politics and Eastern European politics"--