A Few Prefeminist Thoughts

Havelková, Hana

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“…Sexualized images of women and pornography proliferated in Hungary after the regime change. Similar processes occurred in other post-socialist countries in the region, which is widely documented (Gal and Kligman, 2000: 111; Petrova, 1993: 27; Todorova, 1993: 36; Havelková, 1993: 62; Heitlinger, 1993: 103; Sokolová, 2014). However, as we will demonstrate, Hungary showed a new and eager demand for the expanding international porn industry.…”

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“…In the early 1990s, numerous East European feminist activists and scholars warned that the proliferation of pornographic materials and sexualized images of naked female bodies in public, as a visible marker of the birth of a new gender regime, inevitably accompanied the neoliberal political and economic restructurings of the region (Adamik, 1991;Petrova, 1993;Todorova, 1993;Havelková, 1993;Drakulić, 1993;Dolby, 1995;Hauser et al, 1993;Gal and Kligman, 2000). Relatively soon, it became apparent that Hungary achieved a unique and remarkable position in the international porn industry 1 .…”

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Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s

2022

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The aim of this article is to reconsider ‘pornification’ as a universal concept to describe the mediatized process of proliferation of pornographic images in cultural spaces. Based on a textual and discursive analysis of newspaper clippings from the 1990s, autobiographical books and semi-structured interviews with Hungarian porn industry participants, this article explores the local factors that made Hungary an ideal place for the international porn industry to expand production after 1989. This article contributes to the growing body of literature in Porn Studies, which emphasizes the importance of the industrial nature and global inequalities in porn production. We examine the local discourses that justified the ‘porn boom’ as a sign of westernization and the country’s catching-up to the West and present the key factors in the capitalist reintegration process that led to the expansion of the Hungarian porn industry.

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Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s

2022

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“…During the period of state socialism, the state's agenda of egalitarianism addressed some of the same issues that were fundamental to feminist organising in the West, such as women's participation in the labour market, access to education, access to publicly funded childcare and abortion rights; however, other issues of concern to Western feminists such as gender stereotypes and unequal sexual relations between men and women remained unaddressed under state socialism (Wagnerová, 2016). Moreover, terms fundamental to the development of feminist theory in the West, such as 'patriarchy', were not only foreign to the Czech language but the concept was also rejected by Czech gender scholars who argued that the term did not apply in the Czech context (Havelková, 1993;Šiklová, 1998). Hana Havelková (1993, p. 62) argues that feminist concepts developed in the West do not apply to the Czech context because 'general human problems' were put above 'sexed identity'.…”

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do Czech Women Need ‘Gender’?: A Conceptual History of ‘Gender’ in Czechia

Wilson-McDonald¹

2023

Feminist Review

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In recent years, there has been a growing anti-feminist, conservative movement across many parts of the world known as the anti-gender movement. This movement has been especially strong in Central Eastern Europe, where anti-gender actors have framed ‘gender’ as a static, foreign concept imported from ‘the West’ and destructive to ‘traditional’ societies. Utilising a postcolonial feminist approach, I examine the concept of ‘gender’ in Czechia, drawing attention to the role played by Czech academics, activists and policymakers in negotiating the use of the term ‘gender’. This article traces the history of the term from the 1990s when ‘gender’ was first introduced to a Czech academic audience, through public seminars and lectures hosted by the Prague Gender Studies Centre, to the present-day inclusion of gender mainstreaming discourse in Czech policy documents. I reveal that ‘gender’ is not a timeless, clearly defined, fixed term wholly imported from ‘the West’ but rather a concept with a variable and complicated history. Thus, this crucial term, first developed in Anglo-academia, is not uncontested or uncritically accepted, contrary to the claims made by anti-gender actors. The findings presented in this article hold implications critical to transnational feminist dialogue and activism during the current period of growing global anti-feminist sentiment.

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Exhaustion from Explanation

Nash

2002

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Frustrations attending East/West feminist dialogs in the early days of post-socialism were particularly visible in the Czech Republic. English-language publications explained why Czechs were not going to accept feminism easily, despite the growth of new gender studies centers. This article explores the works of three scholars who participated in these discussions: sociologist Marie Čermáková, philosopher and sociologist Hana Havelková, and sociologist Jiřina Šiklová. It argues that in the early to mid-1990s, Czech gender scholars' explanations of why feminism was inappropriate in the Czech context reproduced state narratives of family and gender relations from the interwar and socialist era. Feminist writings from Western Europe and the US often make explicit the contrast between state agendas and women's lives. Czech narratives of past experiences with the state, however, served as a framework for navigating the early post-socialist era.

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A Few Prefeminist Thoughts

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Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s

Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s

do Czech Women Need ‘Gender’?: A Conceptual History of ‘Gender’ in Czechia

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