“Dissatisfied breadwinners” in search of the human being: how gender inequality was seen - and not seen - in Czechoslovak marxist humanism

Title:

“Dissatisfied breadwinners” in search of the human being: how gender inequality was seen - and not seen - in Czechoslovak marxist humanism

Creator:

Mervart, Jan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:3099701b-1f9c-4e6c-aedf-9eaeb24e0217
uuid:3099701b-1f9c-4e6c-aedf-9eaeb24e0217

Subject:

Marxist humanism, gender, emancipation, and Czechoslovakia

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

In East-Central Europe, Marxist humanism embodied one of the most promising theoretical developments of the 1960s. While respecting the unquestionable value of this intellectual current, this article highlights the contradiction between the emancipatory proclamations of humanist intellectuals and their reluctance to recognize certain prevalent forms of oppression. After comparing the humanist approach toward gender-structured themes in the former Czechoslovakia with the contrasting techno-optimist approach, the latter group is shown to have been more sensitive toward women’s issues. Th e article concludes that there was an intrinsic problem in Marxist humanist theory that contributed to this historical shortcoming in its emancipatory eff orts.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

71-85

Source:

Kontradikce: časopis pro kritické myšlení | 2020 Volume:4 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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