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

• Authors: Věra Sokolová

Title variants

EN

PUTTING TOGETHER A RAINBOW MOSAIC: STATE APPROACH TO HOMOSEXUALITY AND “GAY” AND “LESBIAN” ORAL HISTORY IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

homosexuality; gay; lesbian; oral history; sexology; Czechoslovakia; communism

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 28-39

Contributors

author

Věra Sokolová

• FHS UK, Praha, 158 00, Czech Republic