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Gender Transformations: Ethnography of Sexuality and Queer/LGBT Studies in the Czech Republic

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2008

Abstract

The article maps out the current situation of LGBT and queer issues in the Czech Republic, including the academia. The paper concentrates on conceptualization and reflection of the connections – and separations – of gender and sexuality in Czech society after 1989, which explains the specificity of LGBT activities there and places them in theoretical, historical-social and political contexts. The paper is divided into four parts.

1) Conceptual frameworks and trends in the perception of gender and sexuality in the Czech Republic;

2) The media discourse and images of LGBT/queer issues in Czech society;

3) Political activism and gender discourse; and

4) The LGBT academic discourse.