This text presents an analysis of the recent emphasis in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns: the discursive constructions of HIV/AIDS as an issue of risk and its management. Specifically, the text discusses the prevention materials produced by state-funded institutions in the Czech Republic. The aim of the text is twofold: First, it analyses the specific discourse (and rationality) of risk that permeates HIV/AIDS prevention in relation to and as a part of modern biopolitics and (self-)governance. Second, the text examines the discourse of risk for its gendered implications and its re-inscription of gendered power inequalities., Kateřina Kolářová., Obsahuje bibliografii, and Anglické resumé
If the motif of sociality has its roots in sexuality, then sexuality itself is situated in the ambiguous throbbing of immanence and transcendence. Desirous Eros thus brings us to fundamental immanence, and also elevates us to the Other, to a love without desire. The deformalization of time undergoes several registers in Totality and Infinity. It goes from the “the night of the erotic”, to “the equivocal […, that] allows profanation”, bringing us to Eros, which delivers us from “encumberment” and “it goes toward a future which is not yet and which I will not merely grasp, but I will be […]”. Here, Levinas alludes to the eroticism of time, to fecundity, which manifests the social structure of enamored subjectivity. The affected identity is truly fecund, and that with the fecundity of voluptuosity, which never withdraws into itself. The time variations described in such a manner culminate the movement of the deformalization of time, from the first generative cell (sexuality) to the highest ethical demand (Justice).
This article investigates the representation of gender and sexuality, the relationship between gender and modernity and notions of the feminine in contemporary Vietnamese literature. The liberalized political atmosphere of the đổi mới period in Vietnam ushered in a new wave of creativity imbued with a strong critical charge and unleashed a process of social, cultural and political renegotiation. It necessitated and made possible a reconfiguration of fundamental social categories including those of gender, sexuality and female morality. As issues of gender and sexuality became an increasingly important focus in contemporary Vietnam, there emerged a new literary discourse interrogating women’s changing identities and agencies and celebrating female sexuality and subjectivity. A significant contribution of this literature of renovation lies in its engagement with the gendered exploration of the legacy of war and its tragic ramifications for female identity; such works enriched the representation of the conflict by highlighting the discrepancy between the wartime empowerment of women and their post-war disempowerment. Meanwhile, renovation also bolstered the consideration of female equality in terms of sexuality and individualism. The younger generation of writers is dismantling traditional female stereotypes of filial daughters, virtuous wives and caring mothers and renders a multifaceted portrayal of the new woman who personifies the break with conservative modes of womanhood. For contemporary writers the new woman becomes a powerful symbol of social change as she pursues her own ideals of womanhood, sexuality and modernity.
The essay will focalise on main topics of the literary, aesthetical and philosophical exploration of the so called "Wiener Moderne", that means on the erosion of the idea of certainty about the I (E. Mach) and of the wide territory of the Other. Working out parallelisms and differences between German and Austrian Modernism texts of Andrian, Hoffmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann and Schnitzler will be discussed giving space to Slavic components too as well as to intricate relationships between corporality, violence and urban, capitalistic contexts. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The essential attribute of socio-cultural anthropology and ethnography – fieldwork – is a process that interferes in the intimate lives of the population under observation, and that of the researcher as well. This study reconceptualises the issue of sexuality and gender, as they are for the individual the primary characteristic which determines a researcher’s position in field. The article highlights the discrepancy between the way fieldwork techniques are taught, and the real practice of fieldwork. One solution could entail relaxing methodological formalism, which may be in practice unachievable, and the removal of the taboo surrounding the whole issue. Different strategies for dealing with the researchers’ own sexuality and gender in the field, and their accompanying adaptation to the situation, are considered. Attention is paid to the issue of sexual violence in fieldwork., Gabriela Fatková., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Výzkumy dlouhodobě poukazují na celou řadu zdravotních nerovností a rozdílů v kvalitě života lidí, jejichž hlavním rozlišujícím znakem je jejich sexuální orientace, sexuální sebe-identifikace či obecně sexualita. Tato rozmanitost ovšem bývá jen zřídka běžně zařazována mezi demografické otázky, a tak se aktuálně potýkáme nejen s nedostupností důležitých dat, ale také s celou řadou nejasností, které s "měřením sexuality" v rámci výzkumných šetření souvisí. Tento článek si klade čtyři vzájemně propojené cíle. Nejprve přispět k diskusi, která by typic-kou nepřítomnost položek zjišťujících sexualitu respondentů v rámci relevantních studií identifikovala jako významnou bariéru omezující dostupnost informací o zdraví neheterosexuálních lidí. Následně vyjasnit klíčové terminologické problémy, které se pojí zejména s neustále se vyvíjející sexuálně-identitní terminologií. Dále se zaměřuje na diskusi metodologických, ale také kontextuálních úskalí, která se dotýkají problematiky dotazování v oblasti sexuality a přispívají k různým typům výběrových zkreslení. V závěrečné části je diskutována populární otázka "reprezentativity" dostupných výsledků výzkumných šetření a s využitím aktuálních českých a zahraničních reprezentativních šetření zodpovězena otázka, zda stále platí, že neheterosexuální lidé tvoří 4 % populace., Research has long pointed to a number of health inequalities and differences in the quality of life of people, whose main distinguishing feature is their sexual orientation, sexual self-identification, or sexuality in general. However, this diversity is rarely included among demographic questions, so we currently face not only the unavailability of essential data but also many ambiguities associated with the "measurement of sexuality" in research. This article has four interconnected primary goals. First, to contribute to the discussion, which may identify the absence of items determining the sexuality of respondents in relevant studies as a significant barrier limiting the availability of information about the health of non-heterosexual people. Further, it clarifies key terminological issues, which are mainly related to the continually evolving sexual-identity terminology. Third, it focuses on the discussion of methodological but also contextual pitfalls, which touch on the issue of measuring in the field of sexuality and con-tribute to various types of selection bias. In the final part, the question of "representativeness" of available research results is discussed and using current Czech and foreign representative surveys, the question of whether it is still true that non-heterosexual people make up 4% of the population is addressed., Michal Pitoňák., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy