Post/socialist chemical research: a gendered politics of visual representation
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QAT7WIS6J4DCKG6ZZT3Z/full?target=10.1080/25739638.2021.2007597" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QAT7WIS6J4DCKG6ZZT3Z/full?target=10.1080/25739638.2021.2007597</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2021.2007597" target="_blank" >10.1080/25739638.2021.2007597</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Post/socialist chemical research: a gendered politics of visual representation
Original language description
This article explores changes to the strongly gendered politics of representation in applied chemical research using visual material from company magazines of Czech-based chemical plants (1969–2000). This representation overlaps with identified developments in the gender order and how these relate to the disputed Cold War discourse. The focus on visual representations gives us a novel perspective on the intersection of technology, gender and geopolitics and what it can tell us about the ways in which competing versions of modernity have been shaped. We find that in the 1969-1989 period, applied chemical research is primarily portrayed as interaction between women and chemical equipment, making the face of applied chemical research distinctly feminine. This is in line with the definition of socialist modernity through a stress on women’s emancipation and equality as part of the liberation of society as such. However, a detailed visual discourse analysis reveals that this visual representation is less about applied chemical research and more about femininity defined around a singular understanding of motherhood. The gradual dehumanization of chemical research in the visual material resonates with the onset of political and economic change around 1989 marked by a radical change in the overall visual culture.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-09663S" target="_blank" >GA18-09663S: Transformation processes after 1989 reflected in changes to industrial chemical research institutes</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
ISSN
2573-9638
e-ISSN
2573-9646
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2-3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
133-155
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120566879