Men and Masculinities
Men and Masculinities

Summary/Abstract: It has been almost twenty years since the first academic endeavours into critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM) emerged in the Czech Republic. As some of us still remember, the first half of the 1990s was a ground‑breaking period in Czech social sciences. The discipline of sociology started to reassert itself after many years of lost continuity and of being cut off from developments in the discipline beyond the country’s western borders. CSMM was not the only new discovery in this rather complicated process, but it was probably one of the most challenging. The idea that men and masculinities could and should be subjected to systematic scientific observation based on a (pro)feminist standpoint, drawing from academic gender studies that emerged in Central and Eastern Europe only few years earlier was very revolutionary at that time (and for many people it is even now). Among the pioneering texts in Czech CSMM were the studies by the two Czech guest co‑editors to this thematic issue, Iva Šmídová (1997) and Ivan Vodochodský (1999), the thematic book reviews by Hana Havelková (1995) and Pavla Horská (1994), the research studies by Hana Maříková (1999), Radka Dudová (2002), and a student research study by Petra Šťastná (1998). Prior to that, only a handful of scholars had focused on men in the Czech context specifically as a topic of research (for example, Ivo Možný 1983, Zbyněk Vybíral 1995), but none of them had done so from an openly gender‑reflective position.

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