Nina Fárová
Biographic Data
| ID | 5184880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Fárová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fárová |
| SIGNATURE | FÁROVÁ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9480-686X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘It’s a difficult role; I don’t wish it on anyone’
Calls to engage more men in the so-called ‘feminised’ primary school environment are omnipresent. Male teachers are expected to bring something new, different and unique to this feminised environment. The aim of this article is to explain the gendered expectations on male teachers in primary schools and describe how male teachers construct their masculinity in relation to these expectations. The article presents the results of an ethnographic res…
Decoding gender in smart home research
Promoted as transformative of personal lifestyles and broader socio-environmental strategies, smart homes often deliver material change without disrupting entrenched social norms. As such, they tend to reinforce existing social structures instead of challenging or reforming them. This article presents the first cross-disciplinary critical review of 92 smart home publications to evaluate the extent to which gender has been meaningfully addressed i…
Is digital housekeeping care? Visions, legitimations and negotiations of care work in the smart home
With the adoption of smart home technologies in the household, a new type of work is emerging, which has been termed ‘digital housekeeping’ or ‘digi-housekeeping’. In the context of science and technology studies, there has recently been a debate about whether digital housework can be considered a form of unpaid domestic work. As digital housekeeping is predominantly performed by men, gender research furthermore raises the question of whether the…
Education as an arena for anti-feminism
In the European context, there have been discussions for many years about how the number of female and male teachers in primary education should be more balanced. This story is also linked to the deteriorating school performance of boys, who are perceived as lacking male role models in schools. Thus, the feminization of primary education is often seen as an undesirable condition that should be rectified. This pejorative perception of feminization…
Post/socialist chemical research
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 geop…
Scenes in and outside the library
Feminist sociological research is well institutionalised in the Czech Republic with two major departments at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. However, it would be wrong to believe that the knowledge produced by them goes uncontested. In the article, we analyse the de-legitimizing strategies used to discredit and denounce such knowledge in two particular cases that entered the media in 2015 and 2017. In the first case, …
Male Teachers in Kindergartens
This article focuses on the topic of men working in feminised jobs and specifically on male teachers in kindergartens, who are in a specific position given that they are relatively few in number. There are several advantages for them in this position: they are accepted with enthusiasm and with expectations of change. This treatment gives them an opportunity to construct their own and relatively 'elite' version of masculinity, which is superior ju…
Is digital housekeeping care? Visions, legitimations and negotiations of care work in the smart home
With the adoption of smart home technologies in the household, a new type of work is emerging, which has been termed ‘digital housekeeping’ or ‘digi-housekeeping’. In the context of science and technology studies, there has recently been a debate about whether digital housework can be considered a form of unpaid domestic work. As digital housekeeping is predominantly performed by men, gender research furthermore raises the question of whether the…
Education as an arena for anti-feminism
In the European context, there have been discussions for many years about how the number of female and male teachers in primary education should be more balanced. This story is also linked to the deteriorating school performance of boys, who are perceived as lacking male role models in schools. Thus, the feminization of primary education is often seen as an undesirable condition that should be rectified. This pejorative perception of feminization…
Male Teachers in Kindergartens
This article focuses on the topic of men working in feminised jobs and specifically on male teachers in kindergartens, who are in a specific position given that they are relatively few in number. There are several advantages for them in this position: they are accepted with enthusiasm and with expectations of change. This treatment gives them an opportunity to construct their own and relatively 'elite' version of masculinity, which is superior ju…
Male Teachers in Kindergartens
This article focuses on the topic of men working in feminised jobs and specifically on male teachers in kindergartens, who are in a specific position given that they are relatively few in number. There are several advantages for them in this position: they are accepted with enthusiasm and with expectations of change. This treatment gives them an opportunity to construct their own and relatively 'elite' version of masculinity, which is superior ju…
Scenes in and outside the library
Feminist sociological research is well institutionalised in the Czech Republic with two major departments at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. However, it would be wrong to believe that the knowledge produced by them goes uncontested. In the article, we analyse the de-legitimizing strategies used to discredit and denounce such knowledge in two particular cases that entered the media in 2015 and 2017. In the first case, …
Post/socialist chemical research
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 geop…
Education as an arena for anti-feminism
In the European context, there have been discussions for many years about how the number of female and male teachers in primary education should be more balanced. This story is also linked to the deteriorating school performance of boys, who are perceived as lacking male role models in schools. Thus, the feminization of primary education is often seen as an undesirable condition that should be rectified. This pejorative perception of feminization…
Is digital housekeeping care? Visions, legitimations and negotiations of care work in the smart home
With the adoption of smart home technologies in the household, a new type of work is emerging, which has been termed ‘digital housekeeping’ or ‘digi-housekeeping’. In the context of science and technology studies, there has recently been a debate about whether digital housework can be considered a form of unpaid domestic work. As digital housekeeping is predominantly performed by men, gender research furthermore raises the question of whether the…
‘It’s a difficult role; I don’t wish it on anyone’
Calls to engage more men in the so-called ‘feminised’ primary school environment are omnipresent. Male teachers are expected to bring something new, different and unique to this feminised environment. The aim of this article is to explain the gendered expectations on male teachers in primary schools and describe how male teachers construct their masculinity in relation to these expectations. The article presents the results of an ethnographic res…
Decoding gender in smart home research
Promoted as transformative of personal lifestyles and broader socio-environmental strategies, smart homes often deliver material change without disrupting entrenched social norms. As such, they tend to reinforce existing social structures instead of challenging or reforming them. This article presents the first cross-disciplinary critical review of 92 smart home publications to evaluate the extent to which gender has been meaningfully addressed i…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Femininity (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Law (2 works)