Areas of research

• EU, state legislation and gender mainstreaming (Ing. Petr Pavlík)

• Feminism a GLBTQ activism - mutual influences, relations and interactions (Věra Sokolová, Ph.D.)

• Gay Fatherhood, Gay and Lesbian Parenthood (Věra Sokolová, Ph.D.)

• Gender and Science, Women in Science (PhDr. Hana Havelková, Ph.D, Ing. Petr Pavlík)

• Gender in Asian literature (Doc. PhDr. Blanka Knotková, Ph.D)

• Gender analysis of Czech media (Ing. Petr Pavlík)

• Narratives of Sexual Identity (Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D.)

• Heteronormativity and homophobia in Czech society (Věra Sokolová, Ph.D.) 

• L'ecriture feminine in modern Bengali literature (Doc. PhDr. Blanka Knotková, Ph.D)

• Politics of Equal Opportunities, Gender Audits (Ing. Petr Pavlík)

• Gay and lesbian oral history project ((Věra Sokolová, Ph.D.)

• Women's Movements and Feminism (PhDr. Hana Havelková, Ph.D)

• Women in Politics and Active Citizenship (PhDr. Hana Havelková, Ph.D)

• Epistemology of Knowledge, Production of Knowledge (Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Ph.D)

• Memory of Women, Oral History, Feminist Philosophy (Doc. PhDr. Zuzana Kiczková, Ph.D)

Current projects

TRANSFORMATION OF GENDER CULTURE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1948-1989

A research project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (award no. GA403/09/1502), 2009-2011.

The research project conducts an interdisciplinary analysis of the main dimensions of the gender order in Czechoslovakia during the communist period. The main focus is on its so far under-researched symbolic level, which is here conceived as the plurality of discourses and discursive orders and their mutual relations. The project covers the entire communist period, while an important part of the research is the identification of canonical texts and texts that suggest discursive shifts and turning points in the overall gender discourse. The aim is to outline the discursive picture of gender, emphasising its plurality, complexity and dynamics throughout the period. The subjects of analysis will be expert discourses, intellectual elites discourses and selected media texts. This will be supplemented with analyses of institutional and personal levels of the gender order manifest in semi-structured interviews conducted by the members of the research team as well as in extant archival interview material.