Abstract
Extensive research into the framing processes for feminist collective action has contributed significantly to the recognition that the sense of injustice and solidarity is an important motivation to overcome obstacles and to achieve a social change. Therefore, the presentation will explore various forms of feminist commitment to building the solidarities in the Czech Republic, which play central role in forming a collective identity within the feminist movement.
The objective of the study is to elucidate the question of how women in the Czech Republic develop their feminist identification and to analyze in detail the cultural, political or social factors that influence their motivation for the activist engagement. Using data from biographical narrative interviews with feminists and feminist activists, in this presentation I will analyze the narratives of feminist identity and activism and their relevance in everyday life.
The interviews reflect their experience with offline and online activism, the process of identifying with feminism or their previous experience with social justice activism. Furthermore, I will explore the question how feminists make sense of what it means to them to hold an identity of feminist and how this identity might translate into feminist activism.