Gender a výzkum
Gender and Research
Publishing House: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Sociologický ústav
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Frequency: 2 issues
Print ISSN: 2570-6578
Online-ISSN: 2570-6586
Status: Active
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- Year: 2024
- Volume: 25
- Number: 2
Convergences: Gender, Communication, and Work
Articles list
Convergences: Communication, Work, and Gender
Convergences: Communication, Work, and Gender
(Convergences: Communication, Work, and Gender)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Nicoleta-Elena Apostol, Romina Surugiu
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 3-12
- No. of Pages: 10
- Keywords: editorial; communication; work
- Summary/Abstract:
The Aftermath of Minds, Hearts, and Symbols: A Multidimensional Perspective on Digital Housework
The Aftermath of Minds, Hearts, and Symbols: A Multidimensional Perspective on Digital Housework
(The Aftermath of Minds, Hearts, and Symbols: A Multidimensional Perspective on Digital Housework)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Alina Silion
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Sociology, Social history
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 13-41
- No. of Pages: 29
- Keywords: digital housework; gender; digital capital
- Summary/Abstract: Digital housework is one of the outcomes of the spread of interactive, smart technologies in the home. This new type of work consists of domestic, personal, and professional activities that are carried out at home using technological and digital devices. This study seeks to provide a better understanding of the gender implications of the cognitive, emotional, symbolic, and outcome dimensions of digital housework. The research questions used in the study are: (1) What are cognitive, emotional, and symbolic digital housework tasks and their outcomes? (2) What gender patterns can be observed in the performance of cognitive, emotional, and symbolic digital housework? The results are drawn from a thematic analysis of 53 cultural biographies of domestic devices and indicate a distinction between cognitive, emotion, and symbolic digital housework tasks that lead to digital housework outcomes in the form of digital capital. The gender aspects of all the dimensions of digital housework are discussed along with the theoretical and practical implications of the study’s findings.
The Limits and Opportunities of Practising Journalism in the Digital Space: A Gender Perspective
The Limits and Opportunities of Practising Journalism in the Digital Space: A Gender Perspective
(The Limits and Opportunities of Practising Journalism in the Digital Space: A Gender Perspective)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Alexandra Codău, Valentin Vanghelescu
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 42-64
- No. of Pages: 23
- Keywords: journalistic debut; gender identity, digital hostility; misogynistic discourse; viralization
- Summary/Abstract: This study explores the professional debut of women journalists in the digital environment in Romania, focusing on the dynamics of gender identity. The research examines the phenomenon of the viralisation of the first material published by a young journalist and the subsequent online reactions to it on social media. The case study method is used to analyse the discursive and institutional consequences of this event, observing the reactions of various stakeholders (the author, readers, journalists, NGOs, and the academic community). The findings highlight the opportunities created by the viral nature of the debut article, which provides the journalist with a discursive platform post-publication to address gender-related issues and enhances her visibility. However, the analysis also exposes significant challenges faced by the journalist, such as sexist and misogynistic discourse in the comments on social media, demonstrating that in the public sphere of Romania, a woman journalist’s online debut is viewed and analysed not just in terms of professional standards but also from a gender perspective.
The Transnational Construction and Maintenance of Digital Feminist Media Activism: Engagement Practices in the Global South and North
The Transnational Construction and Maintenance of Digital Feminist Media Activism: Engagement Practices in the Global South and North
(The Transnational Construction and Maintenance of Digital Feminist Media Activism: Engagement Practices in the Global South and North)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Mariana Fagundes-Ausani
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 65-92
- No. of Pages: 28
- Keywords: transnational feminisms; digital media activism; engagement
- Summary/Abstract: The article observes, from a transitional perspective, how feminist activists appropriate digital spaces to produce informative content about gender equity and how they organise themselves to maintain feminist media projects in terms of content production and public access to this information. The research focuses on analysing three Brazilian publications (AzMina, Lado M, and Think Olga) and three French ones (Georgette Sand, Les Glorieuses, and Madmoizelle). The global North-South category is mobilised to propose a dialogue between feminist journalism practices in Brazil and France, using both countries because they are important players on the international geopolitical scene. I use theories of gender studies and feminism as bibliographical support and draw on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism correlated with social worlds from a Beckerian perspective to trace the conventions and forms of cooperation, interaction, and negotiation used by the journalists and contributors to these publications. The methodology is based on in-depth interviews with actors who participate to different degrees in the composition of the world (of feminist me-dia activism) – content producers, support teams, and audiences – and direct observation of the practices developed by participants in these spaces to enable a multi-site comparison and provide transnational evidence of the ways in which digital feminist media work.
Time to Change the 'Change': Stigma and Support in Blogs about the Menopause
Time to Change the 'Change': Stigma and Support in Blogs about the Menopause
(Time to Change the 'Change': Stigma and Support in Blogs about the Menopause)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Keren Darmon
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, History of ideas
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 93-116
- No. of Pages: 24
- Keywords: women in communications; blogging the menopause; women-only networks
- Summary/Abstract: This article empirically explores how women who are members of UK-based women-only networks for women working in the media and communications industries blog about the menopause, specifically Bloom (www.bloomnetwork.uk), Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership (www.wacl.info), and Women in Public Relations (www.womeninpr. org). The over-arching research question in this paper is: How do women who are members of women-only networks for women working in communications blog about the menopause? I seek to answer this question by exploring whether the selected blog posts’ texts on the websites of women-only networks have a feminist and/or postfeminist sensibility. Specifically, do they engender an individualistic approach and/or promote solidarity? Furthermore, I examine the texts for indications regarding the ‘sources and solutions for gender inequality in the workplace’ (Gill, Orgad 2015: 340) and ask: What can this tell us about the networks’ position vis-à-vis the menopause, feminism, and postfeminism? Discourse analysis reveals an entanglement of feminist and postfeminist sensibilities in the narratives constructed in the blogs, which can be characterised by two main interpretative repertoires, Stigma and Support, the implications of which call for multilevel and multifaceted changes to support mid-life women in the contemporary media and communications workplace and beyond.
Washing ‘Dirty Work’ in Academia and Beyond: Resisting Stigma as an Early Career Researcher Investigating Sexuality in the Digital
Washing ‘Dirty Work’ in Academia and Beyond: Resisting Stigma as an Early Career Researcher Investigating Sexuality in the Digital
(Washing ‘Dirty Work’ in Academia and Beyond: Resisting Stigma as an Early Career Researcher Investigating Sexuality in the Digital)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Chiara Perin
- Contributor(s):
- Language: English
- Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Sociology, Social history
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 117-137
- No. of Pages: 21
- Keywords: sexuality studies; stigma; dirty work
- Summary/Abstract: During my PhD studies, my ethnography of the r/NoFap subreddit involved grappling with challenges that questioned my research design, academic posture, political stance, gender identity, sexuality and desire and asked for mutable choices to deal with them. With over 1.1 million members, predominantly men, this Reddit channel advocates abstinence from pornography consumption and excessive masturbation as a means to overcome a self-diagnosed porn addiction, porn overuse, and compulsive sexual behaviour. The related conversations are dominated by evolutionary narratives on gender and sexuality, men’s sexual entitlement to women, and the heteronormative coital encounter as an imperative. Academic literature has identified heterosexist, patriarchal, and misogynistic discourses in the community (Prause, Ley 2023; Burnett 2021; Hartmann 2020; Taylor, Jackson 2018). My ethnographic journey demanded substantial emotional labour as I navigated potentially toxic technocultures (Massanari 2015) and non-sex-positive environments. What I had not foreseen was the systematic stigma, discomfort, and delegitimisation in both institutional (academic) and non-institutional contexts (social and familial). This paper provides a detailed account of these experiences, shedding light on the personal, institutional, and emotional struggles inherent in gender and sexuality scholarship as a result of the pervasive stigma and delegitimisation. This account aims to shed light on the consequences of doing ‘dirty work’ and suggest strategies of personal resistance, with the awareness that transformative actions cannot be merely individual but are necessarily structural and collective.
Americká maskulinita pod tlakem změn
Americká maskulinita pod tlakem změn
(American Masculinity under the Pressure of Changes)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Ondřej Frunc
- Contributor(s):
- Language: Czech
- Subject(s): Sociology, Book-Review
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 138-141
- No. of Pages: 4
- Keywords: reviews;
- Summary/Abstract: Review of: Besen-Cassino, Y., Cassino, D. 2022. Gender Threat: American Massculinity in the Face of Change. Stanord: Stanford University Press. In their publication, Yasemin Besen-Cassino and Dan Cassino focus on capturing the basic strategies by which men in the US compensate for changes in the perception of their masculinity. They draw on a large amount of quantitative and qualitative data, which I consider to be one of the great contributions of this publication. They outline a basic overview of strategies that can be significantly expanded in further research and further deepen knowledge about the direction different men take if they feel their own masculinity is threatened. Their book Gender Threat: American Masculinity in the Face of Change (2022) is still a relevant text for the study of masculinity in the US. I believe that by following their ideas we can be inspired in the research of masculinity in Europe and in the Czech Republic.
Stížnost jako předmět fenomenologické analýzy i nástroj institucionální kritiky
Stížnost jako předmět fenomenologické analýzy i nástroj institucionální kritiky
(Complaint as a subject of feminist analysis and tool of institutional critique)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Magdaléna Michlová
- Contributor(s):
- Language: Czech
- Subject(s): Sociology, Book-Review
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 141-145
- No. of Pages: 5
- Keywords: reviews;
- Summary/Abstract: Review of: Ahmed S. Complaint! Duke University Press; 2021 The paper introduces Sara Ahmed as a proponent of queer phenomenology and an academic activist involved professionally and personally in combating gender-based violence in academia, mainly by examining complaints as a subject of a phenomenological analysis as well as as a tool of an institutional critique. Ahmed's main research questions and conclusions are presented in the paper, and the aims of the author are critically reflected upon.
Střední a východní Evropa ve středu zájmu: Neviditelná práce a genderová nerovnost v akademii
Střední a východní Evropa ve středu zájmu: Neviditelná práce a genderová nerovnost v akademii
(Central and Eastern Europe in Focus: Invisible Work and Inequalities in the Academia)
- Publication: (2/25/2024)
- Author(s): Tereza Trojanová
- Contributor(s):
- Language: Czech
- Subject(s): Sociology, Book-Review
- Issue: 2/25/2024
- Page Range: 145-149
- No. of Pages: 5
- Keywords: reviews
- Summary/Abstract: Review of: Górska, A. M. 2023. Gender and Academic Career Development in Central and Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge.
Short Description
Since the year 2017/issue Nr.1 this journal follows with new title the former journal published under the title Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (ISSN-print 1213-0028; ISSN-online 1805-7632).
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research is a peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal of gender studies and feminist theory. The journal publishes articles in Czech or English with gender or feminist perspective in the fields of sociology, philosophy, political science, history, cultural studies, and other branches of the social sciences and humanities. The journal also publishes reviews of Czech and international literature on feminist theory and gender studies, discussions, interviews, and information on events in the academic field of gender studies. The editorial board supports work that represents a contribution to the development of transdisciplinary gender studies and it takes into account the analytical contribution of manuscripts.
