The Public and the Private from a Feminist Perspective
The Public and the Private from a Feminist Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The present study is based on the conceptions of the gender-specific character of the private and public spheres. Western feminist discourse explores historical, political and social reasons for women’s exclusion from the public sphere. In spite of the fact that the danger of eliminating women from the public sphere and in particular from political decisions has not vanished, the author focuses on another important aspect of gender specificity of the private and public. She identifies it as a “double burden” of women. The purpose was to reflect and analyze experiences of women from different socio-political contexts (during the building of socialism in Czechoslovakia) and to contribute to the knowledge of gender-differentiated power asymmetry. This aim required some methodological modification of the categories of the private and public, new investigations into different shaping of the identities of women and men depending on their existence in two different spheres as well as the naming of socio-cultural consequences of the female domination in some branches.

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