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Ignored but Assumed. Family and Gender between Public and Private Realm
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Abstract Posits that the role of women as the bearers of strategies to transform the public sphere within the private sphere has been ignored but assumed in the context of postcommunist social transformation in the Czech Republic because of the omission of the public, private, & gender concepts as analytical... view more
Posits that the role of women as the bearers of strategies to transform the public sphere within the private sphere has been ignored but assumed in the context of postcommunist social transformation in the Czech Republic because of the omission of the public, private, & gender concepts as analytical sociological tools. The private-public relationship in modern society is addressed as an open process in which gender relations are not only formed, but in return, also form the connotations of these spheres according to gender understanding. On this theoretical base, possible ways of rethinking the model of the bourgeois family, which, in Czech society, has a normative power, are suggested with reference to Hanna Arendt's & Jurgen Habermas's concepts. Thus, the current process of socialism under changing conditions can be dealt with as a complex problem of interrelations between the private & public spheres.... view less
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Sociology
Free Keywords
Postcommunist Societies; Opposite Sex Relations; Czech Republic; Social Change; Womens Roles; Sex; Family; Females; postcommunist social transformation, private sphere strategies, women's role, Czech Republic;
Document language
English
Publication Year
1996
Page/Pages
p. 63-79
Journal
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 4 (1996) 1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications