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Filmy - skazki socialisticheskoj Chehoslovakii i politika v otnoshenii zhenshhin
| Title in English | Fairytale movies of socialist Czechslovakia and the policy around women |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
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| Description | This text sheds light on the public policy around women at the start of socialist familialisation in the 1960-1970s in Czechoslovakia. In order to overcome the risk of overdescriptiveness, the methodology of retrospective analysis is designed to trace the reproducing of eugenic discourse as an intersection of policy making, producing public discourse and mass culture. Ricing interest in the impact of eugenic ideas in postsocialist countries especially on social policy redefines the connection between the period of intensive nation-building and socialism. Finally, we trace the application of eugenic discourse in the three most popular fairy-tale movies by Vaclav Vořlíček (The girl on broom, 1971; Three wishes of Cinderella, 1973; How to drown Dr. M…. 1974) narrating the story of domestication of women in favour of their emancipation from the dark kingdom to the progress. |
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