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Authors: Ľubica Kobová, Zuzana Maďarová, Alexandra Ostertágová
Editor: Jana Cviková
Editors of the series Aspekty: Jana Cviková, Jana Juráňová
Reviewers: PhDr. Andrej Findor, PhD. (Ústav európskych štúdií a medzinárodných vzťahov, Fakulta sociálnych a ekonomických
vied Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava)
Viera Lorencová, PhD. (Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts, USA)
Contextualization of the publication:
Zuzana Maďarová: Women of November. The analysis of interviews with female protagonists of the Velvet Revolution
16 interviews, 5 towns, interviewees differed in terms of their age, education, occupation, social status, geographic location in Slovakia and their position in the revolutionary movement (the student, environmental, workplace-based, Hungarian minority movement, the punk community)
How did women construct the Revolution
inconsistency
magical moment
indifference
How did women construct themselves and their own activities
Subjects and forms of infrapolitics
(James C. Scott)
public - private - personal - political
in the Revolution
Ľubica Kobová: Limits of Biopolitics. Two examples of politicizing sexual and reproductive rights of women
Biopolitics (Lemke, Foucault) and gouvernmentality in the context of Slovakia
National Program on the Protection of Sexual and Reproductive Health - an example of gouvernmental politics
Democratic participation or deliberation?
The Pro-Choice Initiative
Feminist politics
Zuzana Maďarová: The Construction of Local Politics as Home.
The analysis of the election campaign of the candidate for the mayor of the capital city of Slovakia
Who is Magdaléna Vášáryová
Content analysis of the manifestos of two biggest rivals: no big differences
Visual analysis of the billboards
Gender: Descent city with men heroes and women in need or women - carers
Race: clean and white
Age: Elder women = confused, sick, in need.
No elder men (heroes)
Local politician as housewife and local politics as home
Depolitization
=
Moralization
Individualization
Alexandra Ostertágová: Successful but Still “Weak”?
The picture of the Slovak premier in the media during important successes of her political career
Premier Iveta Radičová was constructed as a "weak" politician in the media - how was it in times of her political success?
Presidential and general election: Comparison of Iveta Radičová to the rivals Ivan Gašparovič and Robert Fico
Presidential election: construction of Iveta Radičová as an inactive politician; she was not constructed through her political agenda, her competency was invisibilized as well as her previous political experiences
Representation of Radičová through other politicians' agendas and activities
Change in the general election: until her premiership had been confirmed, the dailies kept excluding her from the political space; when her political post was confirmed, the media started to construct her as an active politician, but her activities were thematized through the discourse of “female” politics.
Four analyses outlines various forms of women’s political activities and various circumstances of the construction of political subjectivity of women.
Publication looks at “bottom-up” changes – be it in the Velvet Revolution or in the creation of reproductive health policies – and also touches upon the institutionalized politics.
It points to the interrelatedness of these two spheres in less visible areas. The protagonists of the Velvet Revolution were also those women who laid the foundations of civil society, as well as those who contributed to the formation of reproductive health policy or development of the gender discourse in Slovakia. And these were also those women who are or were active in institutional politics, e.g. both Iveta Radičová and Magdaléna Vášáryová stood at the formation of Verejnosť proti násiliu (Public against Violence) movement in 1989.
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