Women's Agency and Legacy of (Post)Socialism: Understanding Czech Women Artists' Attitudes Towards Feminism
2021
Abstract
The article deals with the legacy of state socialist women's emancipation in Czech sociological discourse and on the art scene of the 1990s and the reasons why women artists refused to identify with feminism, which gradually penetrated Czech society after 1989. The main argument of the article is that the non-identification of local women artists with feminism was not a matter of gender blindness.
On the contrary, it was a rejection of "Western" liberal feminism, whose values, based on individualism and career success, conflicted with the women artists' positive relationship to family, motherhood and "femininity".