Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu

The paper analyzes the ways in which the state approach to homosexuality in Communist Czechoslovakia intersected with actually lived lives and experiences of ordinary non-heterosexual people who identified (mainly retroactively) as gays, lesbians or transsexuals. In the Czech context, this is the fi...

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Main Author: Věra Sokolová
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology 2012-12-01
Series:Gender a Výzkum
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Online Access:https://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/7c1f4772294a23329f9433e60e05c86247088d5c_sokolova-skladani-duhove-mozaiky.pdf
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description The paper analyzes the ways in which the state approach to homosexuality in Communist Czechoslovakia intersected with actually lived lives and experiences of ordinary non-heterosexual people who identified (mainly retroactively) as gays, lesbians or transsexuals. In the Czech context, this is the first research of its kind and combines oral history with a gender analysis of sexological literature from the communist period, to put together a complex mosaic of sexuality in recent past. This confrontation of methods exposes the processes by which gender and sexuality in this era worked as tools of regulation and control, and shows how non-heterosexual people responded to this pressure. The paper offers a multilayer reading and analysis of normality/deviance, public/private and submission/resistance in communist Czechoslovakia.
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Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
Gender a Výzkum
homosexuality
gay
lesbian
oral history
sexology
Czechoslovakia
communism
title Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
title_full Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
title_fullStr Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
title_full_unstemmed Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
title_short Skládání duhové mozaiky: Česká sexuologie a „gay“ a „lesbická“ orální historie v komunistickém Československu
title_sort skladani duhove mozaiky ceska sexuologie a gay a lesbicka oralni historie v komunistickem ceskoslovensku
topic homosexuality
gay
lesbian
oral history
sexology
Czechoslovakia
communism
url https://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/7c1f4772294a23329f9433e60e05c86247088d5c_sokolova-skladani-duhove-mozaiky.pdf
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