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Seeing “Red” (Orange Is The New Black) – Russian Women, US Homonationalism and New Cold War Cultures

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Wiedlack K.

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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2016

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vol. 17

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issue 1

29-40

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This article investigates visual, bodily, and cultural representations of Russian women in public media and takes the TV character ‘Red’ from the popular American TV show Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) as an example. The central points of discussion are the figure’s racialisation and culturalisation. This article analyses how Red’s body, mindset, and character are produced as Russian against the background of contemporary new Cold War discourses. It argues that Red is staged as a racialised Russian other, through the emphasis on her gendered heterosexual body, within a sexually and racially diverse group of imprisoned Americans in the show. Moreover, her presentation within such a diverse group also serves to present or confirm the US nation as liberal, sexually diverse, and modern by contrasting it with Red’s strongly gendered and heterosexual body, which appears old-fashioned and from the past (also depicted as the Russian present). Referring to recent literature on the exotification and othering of Eastern European and Russian women as well as works on ethnicity and whiteness in the USA, this article is situated at the intersection of considerations of the specific racialisation of Eastern female bodies and queer and feminist discourses.

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Vynález heterosexuality (komentář Věra Sokolová)

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Katz J. N.

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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2013

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vol. 14

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issue 2

4-13

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The paper maps the history of the term and ideas about heterosexuality in the United States of America since the second half of the 19th century until the 20th century. Katz focuses primarily on the construction of the concept and terminological apparatus of heterosexuality (and homosexuality) in the medical discourse, its entry into the social mind and historical changes in the subsequent periods.

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„Jak to się stało, że masz syna z nowym Bondem?” – kobiece, męskie i boskie w poezji Justyny Bargielskiej

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Fazan J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2018

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issue 33

29-40

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The paper applies to the work of one of the most important Polish writers of the last decade. Bargielska combines bold poetic experiments with a keen testimony of an ordinary life of a young woman, who experiences life in the beginning of the 21st century in Poland. On the one hand, the poet declares a conservative worldview (her value system is based on the “trinity”: Catholicism, heterosexuality, motherhood), on the other hand, she brutally and mercilessly uncovers the subjugation of a woman in the world of a male-dominated language. Her writing deconstructs this system, as it discovers the literature as a space for the practice of personal freedom beyond the slogans and ideological divisions; she manages to create her own independent form of existence. The poet renews feminine way of being through the deconstruction of religious myths and cultural stereotypes, confronted with the physiological and social reality.

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Can’t Hear or Won’t Hear: Gender, Sexualities and Reporting Male Rape

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Javaid A.

InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer

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2018

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issue 13

31-53

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Drawing on heteronormativity and hegemonic masculinity, this paper seeks to unravel the issue of the underreporting of male rape to the police and to the third sector. Critically examining the issue of male sexual victimisation will provide a fuller understanding of it within the police and third sector context. Underpinned by gender theories and concepts and the framework of heteronormativity, I argue that male victims of rape are reticent to engage with the police and voluntary agency practitioners because of hostile, sexist and homophobic reactions, attitudes, and appraisal, particularly from other men in these agencies within England to police masculinities and sexualities. I draw on primary data of police officers and voluntary agency practitioners (n = 70) to illustrate the ways wherein gender and sexualities norms and beliefs affect and shape their understanding and view of men as victims of rape. The data suggests that, when male rape victims report their rape, they are susceptible to a ‘fag discourse’, whereby the police and voluntary agency practitioners are likely to perpetuate language to suggest that the victims are not ‘real’ men, intensifying their reluctance to report and to engage with the criminal justice system. Thus, the police and voluntary agency practitioners’, particularly male workers, masculinities are strengthened through emasculating male rape victims.

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2 Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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1 Javaid A.

1 Katz J. N.

1 Wiedlack K.

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Seeing “Red” (Orange Is The New Black) – Russian Women, US Homonationalism and New Cold War Cultures

Vynález heterosexuality (komentář Věra Sokolová)

„Jak to się stało, że masz syna z nowym Bondem?” – kobiece, męskie i boskie w poezji Justyny Bargielskiej

Can’t Hear or Won’t Hear: Gender, Sexualities and Reporting Male Rape