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274:, created a disregard or anti-feminist reaction in the Czech Republic. This included lesbians, who were doubly discriminated against as women by society at large and as queer by the homosexual community. The Queer Studies course she launched at Charles University focuses on a critical analysis of how sexuality is used as a means of social control. She has been involved in the state television program for the LGBT community, known as 257:
gender effects power relationships in society. She has evaluated how feminist movements were different in Western and socialist countries, in that rather than a political movement, the state took over the mechanisms to modernize women's status in the East. She has analyzed the impact of the development of ethnic and gender studies on governmental policy. For example, under communism,
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Sokolová was one of the pioneering academics of gender studies in the Czech Republic, beginning to teach the subject before it was an accredited field in the country. She inaugurated the Queer Studies course in the arts faculty of Charles University in 2001. Since 2003 she has been the chair of the
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According to Sokolová, the invisibility of non-heterosexual lives in the Soviet period was erased with the birth of gender studies. Identification of homosexuals and lesbians created a consequence that they might be seen as criminals and hardened hetero-normative and binary definitions of society.
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ethnic groups were treated as deviant, but launching programs to reignite the study of the Romani people's ethnicity in the 1970s amplified their differences and escalated discrimination in society. In her studies on policy, Sokolová has shown that officials arbitrarily applied policy, based on
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Sokolová's research interests lie in the development of the idea of gender and its historic constructs in society. She has studied the history of the discipline, as it moved from women's studies, to feminist studies, and finally gender studies and is interested in the way that the definition of
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and specifically focuses on identity policy and the construction of sexuality from a historical and social perspective, evaluating the power, structuring and defining of sexuality to transcend binary boundaries. She is the chair of the Department of Gender Studies at
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Sloboda, Zdeněk (2010). "Specifics of the Contemporary Czech Homosexual Community: History, Evolution and Ambivalences". In Clarke, Gemma; McQueen, Fiona; Pnacekova, Michaela; Sahli, Sabrina (eds.).
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Sokolová, Věra (2005). "Identity Politics and the (B)orders of Heterosexism: Lesbians, Gays and Feminists in the Czech Media after 1989". In Leeuwen-Turnovcová, Jiřina van; Richter, Nicole (eds.).
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ethnicity and gender. During the state socialist period, the national policy to increase births did not allow Czech and Slovak women to have abortions. Simultaneously a policy of
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Sokolová, Věra (2001). "Representations of Homosexuality and the Separation of Gender and Sexuality in the Czech Republic Before and After 1989". In Isaacs, Ann Katherine (ed.).
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She found that women's studies programs, or the interpretation of feminism projected to the country from Czech exiles living abroad, like
211:(2002). Her dissertation was titled "A matter of speaking: Racism, gender, and social deviance in the politics of the “Gypsy question” in 511:
A matter of speaking: racism, gender and social deviance in the politics of the "gypsy question" in communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-1989
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A matter of speaking: Racism, gender and social deviance in the politics of the “Gypsy question” in communist Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989
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Department of Gender Studies in the Humanities Faculty of Charles University and is the co-managing editor of the academic journal
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Queer Encounters with Communist Power : Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1989
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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989
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in Sacramento. In the U.S., she studied history and cultural anthropology. After graduating
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Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs
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Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs
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Mediale Welten in Tschechien nach 1989: Genderprojektionen und Codes des Plebejismus
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The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism After the 1968 Prague Spring
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Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze
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Cultural Politics of Ethnicity: Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia
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The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice
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The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice
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De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives
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in an effort to correct falling birth rates among Czech and Slovak women.
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in 1992, before continuing her studies in the United States at
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Věra Sokolová was born in Czechoslovakia in 1970. She earned a
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Havelková, Hana; Oates-Indruchová, Libora, eds. (2014).
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Albert, Gwendolyn; Szilvasi, Marek (December 2017).
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forced sterilization was implemented on Romani women
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Czech anthropologist, university educator, feminist
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Vera Sokolova
Alma mater
Charles University
California State University
University of Washington
Thesis
A matter of speaking: Racism, gender and social deviance in the politics of the “Gypsy question” in communist Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989
James Ramon Felak
Uta G. Poiger
Suzanne Lebsock
gender studies
Charles University
Bachelor of Science
Charles University
California State University
summa cum laude
Bachelor of Arts
master's degree
University of Washington
communist Czechoslovakia
James Ramon Felak
Uta G. Poiger
Suzanne Lebsock
New School University
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Roma
forced sterilization was implemented on Romani women
Josef Škvorecký
ISBN
978-88-8492-072-0

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