Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism

Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism

Denying free travel abroad and back to one’s homeland represented an integral part of the communist regime’s authoritarian control in socialist Czechoslovakia. In this context, people who were allowed to travel abroad were in a privileged position. Paper concentrates on the experiences of people who...

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Main Author: Lenka Krátká
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ośrodek "Pamięć i Przyszłość" - "Remembrance and Future" Centre 2020-06-01
Series:Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
Subjects:
business trip
czechoslovakia
family
state socialism
seafarer
Online Access:https://wrhm.pl/wrhm/article/view/246/193
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Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
business trip
czechoslovakia
family
state socialism
seafarer
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title Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
title_short Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
title_full Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
title_fullStr Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
title_full_unstemmed Life Like a Swing: Women’s Perspectives of Everyday Life in Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Families under State Socialism
title_sort life like a swing: women’s perspectives of everyday life in czechoslovak seafarers’ families under state socialism
publisher Ośrodek "Pamięć i Przyszłość" - "Remembrance and Future" Centre
series Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
issn 2084-0578
publishDate 2020-06-01
description Denying free travel abroad and back to one’s homeland represented an integral part of the communist regime’s authoritarian control in socialist Czechoslovakia. In this context, people who were allowed to travel abroad were in a privileged position. Paper concentrates on the experiences of people who “stayed at home”: the partners and children of workers who were able to travel and work abroad. The analysis of interviews with seafarers’ wives show a strong reproduction of gender stereotypes in these families. This fact is questioned very little by both men and women, because in the seafarer’s profession provided these families with a specific sort of luxury and uniqueness, bringing them considerable benefits that distinguished these people from the majority of the population.
topic business trip
czechoslovakia
family
state socialism
seafarer
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