About us ****************************************************************************************** * Conception and Philosophy of Gender Studies ****************************************************************************************** The Gender Studies program at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University [ URL "http: FHSENG-1.html"] (FHS CU) rests in offering the opportunity for a systematic academic study and methodological tools for researching and exploring gender issues in historical perspec consideration of cultural and ethnic aspects of a given topic. Currently, FHS CU offers a in Gender Studies [ URL "http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-707.html"] with a long-term goal of bro program by a study on a Ph.D. level as well. In additio, we also offer a range of gender r on the B.A. level, open to all interested students at FHS CU and other schools and univers cooperate with other research centers, schools and universities in the Czech Republic, nam of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, the Faculty of Arts at Charles University Contact Center for Women in Science of the Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of others, as well as foreign universities and institutions abroad. The Gender Studies progra to and welcomes exchange students and faculty from academic exchange programs from Slovaki Erasmus/Socrates and Fulbright programs. Within this structure of the M.A. program the students confront a wide spectrum of theoret methodological and practical questions related to gender as one of the main organizing pri societies; gender and sexual symbolics and contextualization; historical and contemporary women and men in various societies; the influence of feminist and queer theories and metho and science; and other diverse aspects of gender. In this context it is important to note advanced countries gender issues and aspects are cosidered one of the fundamental cornerst in general, which is visible for example from the priorities and activities of the Europea area. The activities and courses of the Gender Studies program at FHS CU are aimed primarily at students, but not only students of FHS CU, but through elective courses and bloc seminars to other schools and universities in Prague and the entire Czech Republic. ****************************************************************************************** * History of the Gender Studies Program ****************************************************************************************** Unlike in the educational systems in Western democracies, until very recently Gender Studi related courses have not been at all a part of college education (or any other education f in either Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic. The creation and accreditation of the M.A. Gender Studies is a completely new phenomenon, the program has been accredited by the Czec Education only in June 2004, and until this day our program has remained the only M.A. pro the entire country. On the B.A. level it has been accompanied by a program in Gender at th Sociology at the School of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, the only B.A. pro the Czech Republic. Until 1998 education in gender studies has existed only thanks to the lecture and seminar realized and supported by the Gender Studies NGO in Prague, and similar organizations in B the NGO was offering a traveling course in gender studies, consisting of lectures and pres by leading Czech and Slovak experts and scholars in the field of gender studies and femini Throughout the years, this course has been traveling through several universities in the C and Slovakia, offering at least the basic information and knowledge in the field to intere faculty. For almost five years this activity of the Gender Studies NGO substituted for and an academic institution, but for a real academic status at the university level gender stu until 1998. In october 1998 the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague approved the proposal of an expert team of scholars from the circle around the Gender Stud created a Center for Gender Studies as an independent academic site under the Department o at FF UK. The goal of the center was to offer an interdisciplinary variety of gender relat students of all departments of the school and thus create an opportunity for a systematic However, despite academic and fundraising successes of the center, in summer of 2003 the A UK has decided to cancel the existence of the center based on an argumentation that gender a field, which FF UK would like to develop as an integral aspect of the school. Gender stu to the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, where the program and potential depart an unequivocal and full support from the school administration. The department of Gender S administrative unit ceased to exist due to a general re-structuralisation of the Faculty i the Gender Studies program, however, relentlessly continues with the work. ****************************************************************************************** * Profile of a Graduate of the Gender Studies program ****************************************************************************************** M.A. Program in Gender Studies is specifically conceptualized in a way so that the student field obtain knowledge and skills and deepen their understanding of gender constructions a functioning in society. The students should be able to critically and in complex ways eval roles and meanings of these constructions in the overall organization of society. Likewise be able to assess and analyze the consequences of the gender roles, constructions and ster both contemporary and historical position of women and men in society. The goal of the pro familiarize the students with gender analysis in diverse academic fields and practical are in order to get them ready for professional careers in wide range of professional fields, administration, social policy, social and medical care, social and legal work, education a Graduates of the M.A. program in Gender Studies wil find their careers in state and non-go organizations, especially in institutions and organizations concerned with social question matters, domestic and public violence, human rights and equal opportunities, development o sustainable development, labor law, and others. In their work, individual, teamwork or lea roles of mediators of conflict resolution, in research, education, planning, applying meth change they will be able to inspire advanced gender sensibility and use applied gender ana differentiated attitudes. They will be able to contribute to so-called "gender mainstreami the integration of gender differetiated attitudes and principles to the fundamental social cultural structures of the society. They will be able to develop and cultivate priciples a of social justice in wide sense of the term, support gender balance, equality and human an to difference and gender and sexual autonomy. From the point of national and international of our program should become the bearers of merging of legal practice of the Czech Republi European Union. Graduates of the program will also be able to find their careers in theore pedagogical teams in academia and thus contribute to the development and broadening of gen interdisciplinary level, in both research and teaching. ****************************************************************************************** * Publications ****************************************************************************************** • Gender and Generation - anthology of research articles, inspired by the international conference Gender and Gene by and held at the Department of Gender Studies FHS UK in Prague in March 2007. - Introduction and edited by Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D. and Věra Sokolová, Ph.D. - published by Litteraria Pragensis, thanks to the financial support of the JPD grant of E • Relationships, Languages, Bodies: Texts from the Conference of Czech and Slovak Feminist - edited by PhDr. Libuse Heczkova, Ph.D. et al. - published by Charles University in Prague, School of Humanities, thanks to the financial Ford Foundation, Prague, 2007. • The Gender Studies Yearbook 05/06 - edited by Doc. PhDr. Blanka Knotková-Čapková, Ph.D. - published by Ermat, thanks to the financial support of the JPD grant of EU, Prague, 2007 • The Gender Studies Yearbook 03/04 - edited by Doc. PhDr. Blanka Knotková-Čapková, Ph.D. - published by Charles University in Prague, School of Humanities, thanks to the financial Ford Foundation, in 2004 (ISBN 80-239-4451-7). • Claire M. Renzetti a Daniel J. Curran Ženy, muži a společnost - authorized team translation from the English original Women, Men, and Society (Boston: A ed., 1999). - published by Charles University in Prague, School of Humanitiesthanks to the financial s Ford Foundation and Open Society Fund Praha, in 2003 (ISBN 80-246-0525-2). - for individual publications and activities of Gender Studies faculty see their respectiv "http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-573.html"] .