Professional orientation

is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology teaching in the Gender Studies Program since it has been launched in 2004 (courses since 1998). She concentrates in her research on critical approaches to studies on men and masculinities. 

Research interests

Recently she has completed a four year research project on Czech reproductive medicine (www.reprobiomed.fss.muni.cz). Other research studies include negotiation strategies of gender relations in the family with accented attention to changing patterns of fatherhood in the Czech society; nurturing fatherhood, fathers at childbirth; and educational choices and aspirations on the labour market from a gender perspective. Iva Šmídová teaches courses on the gendered structure of society, methodology of gender research, masculinities and gender or sociology of medicine, health and illness.

Selected publications

• Šmídová, Iva. 2015. Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals: beyond hegemonic masculinities. Special Issue „Men and masculinities in the European dimension”. Studia Humanistyczne AGH 14 (2): 157 – 177.
• Šmídová, Iva, Eva Šlesingerová a Lenka Slepičková. 2015. Games of Life. Czech Reproductive Biomedicine. Sociological Perspectives. Brno: Masarykova univerzita - munipress.
• Hearn, Jeff, Iva Šmídová a Ivan Vodochodský (eds). 2015. Muži a mužství/Men and Masculinities (Thematic Issue). Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum 16(1).
• Šmídová, Iva. 2015. Invisible Lady Doctors and Bald Femininity: Professional Conference in Czech Reproductive Medicine. Visual studies: Encounter Imagination. Social Studies/Sociální studia 12(1): 31 - 52.
• Speier, Amy, Iva Šmídová and Hubert Wiercinski (eds.). 2014. Health And Medicine: Post-Socialist Perspectives (Thematic Issue). Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review  50(6).
• Hearn, Jeff, Irina Novikova, Keith Pringle, Iva Šmídová, Gunilla Bjerén, Marjut Jyrkinen, LeeAnn Iovanni, Fátima Arranz et. al. 2013. Studying Men´s violences in Europe. Towards a Research Framework. Örebro: Örebro university, Centre for Feminist Social Studies.
• Slepičková, Lenka a Eva Šlesingerová a Iva Šmídová. 2012. Biomoc a reprodukční biomedicína: konceptuální inspirace pro český kontext. (Biopower and Reproductive Biomedicine: a Conceptual Inspiration for Czech Sociology of Medicine.) Sociologický časopis/ Czech Sociological Review 48(1): 85-106.
• Jarkovská, Lucie, Kateřina Lišková a Iva Šmídová. 2010. S genderem na trh. Rozhodování o dalším vzdělání patnáctiletých. (With gender to the market. Educational strategies and decissions of 15years old students). SLON Praha.
• Šmídová, Iva. 2009. Changing Czech Masculinities? Beyond „Environment And Children Friendly“ Men. In Oleksy, Elzbieta (ed.) Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Subjectivity, Politics. Routledge. Pp. 312 – 334.
• Šmídová, Iva. 2005. The Czech Republic: Domination and Silences. In Pringle, K. Hearn, J. et al. Men and Masculinities in Europe. Whiting & Birch, London. Pp.  219-230.