Univ. Prof.in Dr.in.habil. PhD Libora Oates-Indruchová

Affiliated Researcher

Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz. Her research interests include cultural representations of gender, gender and social change, censorship, everyday creativity, and narrative research, with a focus on state-socialist and post state-socialist Czech Republic. She also co-edited The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: an Expropriated Voice (with Hana Havelková; Routledge 2014, paperback 2015; expanded Czech edition 2015) that won the 2016 BASEES Women’s Forum Book Prize.

 

Selected Publications

  • Oates-Indruchová, Libora. Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89: Snakes and Ladders. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
  • Oates-Indruchová, Libora. “Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis.” In East European Politics and Societies 36, no. 3 (2022): 1061-1085. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254211012763open_in_new.
  • Oates-Indruchová, Libora. “Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth? Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture.“ In Slavic Review 75, no. 4 (2016): 919-943. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.75.4.0919.  

 

Focus in the HERESSEE project

  • Presentation of western feminist activism in the 1980s on the example of the newspaper coverage of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
  • Politicization of everyday craft and creative pursuits in state-socialist DIY magazines.

 

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