Queer encounters with communist power : non-heterosexual lives and the states in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989  Queer Encounters With Communist Power : Non-heterosexual Lives and the States in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2468097B

  Author(s)

  Sokolova, Vera

  City

  Prague 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788024642666 

  Date of Publication

  2021 

  Publisher

  Karolinum Press  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  242 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Sociology

  Subject

  LGBTQ+

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Sokolová, Věra

  Publisher

  Karolinum Press  

• Description

  Queer Encounters With Communist Power : Non-heterosexual Lives and the States in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989 In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their dealings with the regime? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves a groundbreaking queer oral history project with meticulous, original research into the discourse on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989. Contrary to expectations, the book reveals that despite the Czechoslovak Communist regime’s brutality in many areas of life, the state did not carry out a hateful or seditious campaign against homosexual and non-heterosexual people. Rather, the official state sexology offices functioned from the late 1970s onward as essentially the first gay clubs in socialist Czechoslovakia. Interweaving the memories of non-heterosexual Czech women born between 1929 and 1952, Věra Sokolová’s study both enriches and challenges existing scholarship on lesbian and gay history during this era, promising to radically change the way we view gender, sexuality, and everyday life during East European socialism.