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Cesta do hlubin genderové politické kultury: Příklad kritické analýzy ideologie
Detecting a Gendered Political Culture: An Example of Critical Analysis of Ideology

Author(s): Hana Havelková
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Sociologický ústav
Keywords: political representation of women; political culture; ideology

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on one of the factors affecting the political representation of women: political culture. Defined as the level of egalitarian gender culture in a country as related to politics in particular, its open forms can be measured in public opinion polls. But the article focuses on two less apparent forms of differentiation between the sexes in relation to politics. The first is the different way in which each gender relates conceptually to power. The second difference relates to the view that equal representation is not too important. An in-depth analysis using ideological analysis (a type of CDA) even reveals the existence of a divided concept of freedom according to gender, which is obscured by a set of other divides, such as politics versus culture, public versus private, love versus personal autonomy.

  • Issue Year: 09/2008
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 1-7
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Czech