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CZECHWOMENNORMALISATION-1.pdf | The Visible and Invisible Role of Women in Czech Dissent During the 1970s and 1980s1 | Mgr. Lucie Cviklová, M.A., Ph.D. |
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HORAKOVA-1.pdf | The Show Trial of JUDr. Milada Horáková | Mgr. Lucie Cviklová, M.A., Ph.D. |
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Walentynowicz-1.pdf | The Mother of Solidarity | Mgr. Lucie Cviklová, M.A., Ph.D. |
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WHITEROSE-2.pdf | The Six Pamphlets of the White Rose | Mgr. Lucie Cviklová, M.A., Ph.D. |
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WOMENSOCIALISM.pdf | Discourses of Gender in Pre- and Post-1989 Czech Culture | Mgr. Lucie Cviklová, M.A., Ph.D. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Vostruhová (30.09.2019)
A deeper and more thorough understanding of anti–regime resistance in the former East and Central European totalitarian and post–totalitarian regimes is gained by highlighting participation of women in individual national systems. At the start, the forms of gender stereotyping characteristic to teleological communist ideology will be compared to everyday practices of real socialist systems. Subsequently, national variations of women's role in cultural and political protest will be presented in the form of individual case studies of prominent intellectuals and activists: e.g. the Soviet case through the contributions of human rights activist Yelena Bonner, the Romanian case through the activities of human rights activist Doina Cornea, or the Czech case by the experiences of human rights activist Anna Šabatová. Presentation of published materials about dissent activities of women in East and Central Europe will be complemented by presentation of new/recent data about cultural and political protestations in the former Czechoslovakia. The requirement for the credit is debate about final essay (10 pages). |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Vostruhová (19.09.2019)
Course Goals and Student Learning Objectives The goal of the course is to enhance students' knowledge about gender equality in collective mobilization against totalitarian and post–totalitarian regimes in specific East and Central European countries.
The primary goals of this course are: ˗ Students will gain familiarity with the influence of communist ideology on gender identities and everyday practices ˗ Students are introduced to historically or intellectually significant women who played an important role in oppositional activities against nondemocratic EEC regimes. ˗ Students are given the opportunity to reflect upon mainstream national and regional discourses that attribute importance to men regarding the former EEC anti-regime clandestine movements ˗ Students are made aware of national specificities of cultural protest in EEC countries and the role of women in it ˗ Students understand the specific forms and challenges of political protest in EEC countries and the role of women in it ˗ Students analyze new interviews with female former anti–regime protestors at the Faculty of Arts ˗ Students analyze new interviews with female former anti–regime protestors in the North Bohemia |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Vostruhová (19.09.2019)
Weekly Schedule Week 1 Course Introduction. Gender Arrangements in East and Central Europe during the Rise of Nationalism and the Dissolution of Imperial Rule Required Reading: Iggers, Vilma, Abeles, Women of Prague; Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Providence, Berghahn Books, 1995. Week 2 The Limited Empowerment of Women in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Their Participation in the Resistance to Nazism. Required Reading: Feinberg, Melissa, Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia 1918–1950, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
Week 3 The Influence of the Communist Ideology on the Position of Czech Women in the First Decades of the Totalitarian Regime: The Show Trial of Milada Horáková. Required Reading: Margolius, Ivan, Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century, Chichester, Wiley, 2006.
Week 4 The Involvement of Czech Women in Political Protest: The Case of Anna Šabatová and Charter 77. Required Reading: Risse, Hans-Peter, Charter 77 and the Struggle for Human Rights in Czechoslovakia, New York, Vintage Books, 1979.
Week 5 The Involvement of East and Central European Women in Cultural Protest: Eva Kantůrková, Lenka Reinerová and Prison Literature. Required Reading: Segel, Harold (editor), The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Week 6 The Involvement of Russian Women in Political and Cultural Protestat: The Case of Elena Bonner and Moscow Dissent. Required Reading: 1) Bonner, Elena, Alone Together (3 ed.), New York, Vintage Books, 1986.
Week 7 The Involvement of Polish Women in Political and Cultural Protest: The Case of Anna Walentynowicz and Solidarity. Required Reading: Penn, Shana, Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland, Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Week 8 Presentation of Midterm Essays: Analysis of Original Excerpts from Interviews (collected by Lucie Cviklová and Martin Tharp). 1)Cviklová, Lucie, Biographical Perspective on Student Collective Mobilization in 1989 (manuscript). 2)Cviklová, Lucie, Theoretical Approaches to Public Spaces and Their Relevance for an Interpretation of the Czech Student Movement in 1989 (manuscript). 3)Tharp, Martin, Gender Dynamics in Underground Samizdat Production (dissertation chapter) 4)Tharp, Martin, Biography and Positionality: Interviews with Women in a Samizdat Network (dissertation chapter)
Week 9 The Involvement of Hungarian Women in Political and Cultural Protest: The Case of Agnes Heller and the Budapest School of Reform Marxism. Required Reading: Heller, Agnes, Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature and Life, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2005.
Week 10 The Involvement of Romanian Women in Political and Cultural Protest: The Case of Doina Cornea and the Ceauşescu Dictatorship. Required Reading: Dennis, Deletant, Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989, London, M.E. Sharpe, 1995.
Week 11 East and Central European Women as Ordinary Citizens and Members of the Grey Zone: Their Everyday Lives and Routines. Required Reading: Penn, Shana, Massino, Jill, Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State-Socialist East and Central Europe, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Week 12 East and Central European Women under the Early Post–Communist Condition: Path Dependencies and New Life Strategies. Required Reading: Funk, Nanette, Mueller Magda (editors), Gender Politics and Post–Communism, Routledge 1993.
Week 13 Final Debate about the Importance of East and Central European Women for Protest against Totalitarian and Post–Totalitarianism. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Vostruhová (19.09.2019)
Required Readings There are compulsory readings for each class (see weekly schedule below). These will be accessible in the class (reader) and online (moodle).
Recommended Readings These books are useful for acquiring the basic knowledge and main topics of the course: 1)Bonner, Elena, The Remains of Totalitarianism, The New York Review of Books, 8 March 2001. 2)Fürst, Juliane, McLellan, Josie, Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc, New York, London, Lexington Books, 2017. 3)Havel, Václav, Letters to Olga: June 1979–September 1989, London, Faber and Faber, 1991. 4)Němcová, Božena, The Grandmother: A Story of Country Life in Bohemia (1892), Praha, Vitalis, 2011. 5) 5)Šiklová, Jiřina, Jusová, Iveta, Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016. |