Subjecting female embodiment in the socialist public campaigns and fairy tale movies in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s: once upon a time and forever eugenic?
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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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 Vorlíček (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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