Hana Havelková is a Sociologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Libora Oates-Indruchová is Reader at Palacký University, Czech Republic.

"This book of Czech experts on gender culture and politics during state socialism proposes a significant new view on life within a totalitarian regime in Central Europe. Focusing not only on ideology and politics but on social practice as well, the book is an important contribution to understanding the gap between official ideology and everyday life during particular stages of state socialism. The results of the newest research presented in the book significantly add to our understanding of former state socialist countries and totalitarian systems in general"--Gabriela Dudekova, Slovak Academy of Sciences

• Introduction 1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová Part One: Gender as a social category 2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelková 3. Women’s organizations in the Czech lands, 1948–1989: an historical perspective Denisa Nečasová 4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism Věra Sokolová 5. Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism Kateřina Zábrodská Part Two: Gender as a symbolic category 6. The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective Petr Roubal 7. Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism, and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989 Jan Matonoha 8. The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism Libora Oates-Indruchová 9. The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová Petra Hanáková 10. The AIDS-ed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist Czechoslovakia Kateřina Kolářová

Hana Havelková is a Sociologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Libora Oates-Indruchová is Reader at Palacký University, Czech Republic.

"This book of Czech experts on gender culture and politics during state socialism proposes a significant new view on life within a totalitarian regime in Central Europe. Focusing not only on ideology and politics but on social practice as well, the book is an important contribution to understanding the gap between official ideology and everyday life during particular stages of state socialism. The results of the newest research presented in the book significantly add to our understanding of former state socialist countries and totalitarian systems in general"--Gabriela Dudekova, Slovak Academy of Sciences

• Introduction 1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová Part One: Gender as a social category 2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelková 3. Women’s organizations in the Czech lands, 1948–1989: an historical perspective Denisa Nečasová 4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism Věra Sokolová 5. Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism Kateřina Zábrodská Part Two: Gender as a symbolic category 6. The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective Petr Roubal 7. Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism, and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989 Jan Matonoha 8. The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism Libora Oates-Indruchová 9. The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová Petra Hanáková 10. The AIDS-ed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist Czechoslovakia Kateřina Kolářová

Hana Havelková is a Sociologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Libora Oates-Indruchová is Reader at Palacký University, Czech Republic.

"This book of Czech experts on gender culture and politics during state socialism proposes a significant new view on life within a totalitarian regime in Central Europe. Focusing not only on ideology and politics but on social practice as well, the book is an important contribution to understanding the gap between official ideology and everyday life during particular stages of state socialism. The results of the newest research presented in the book significantly add to our understanding of former state socialist countries and totalitarian systems in general"--Gabriela Dudekova, Slovak Academy of Sciences

• Introduction 1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová Part One: Gender as a social category 2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelková 3. Women’s organizations in the Czech lands, 1948–1989: an historical perspective Denisa Nečasová 4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism Věra Sokolová 5. Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism Kateřina Zábrodská Part Two: Gender as a symbolic category 6. The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective Petr Roubal 7. Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism, and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989 Jan Matonoha 8. The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism Libora Oates-Indruchová 9. The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová Petra Hanáková 10. The AIDS-ed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist Czechoslovakia Kateřina Kolářová