Eva Hauserová
Eva Hauserová is a Czech writer, publicist, translator and permaculturist.
She is a graduated biologist (Charles' University), but she worked as an assistant editor in several publishing houses, and at present she supports herself as a free-lance writer and translator.
Her journalist work is focused mostly on feminist and environmental issues, her fiction is partly of sci-fi genre.
As an editor she works mostly on books on environmental issues, like sustainable life, self-reliance, organic gardening and permaculture. She also teaches permaculture courses and works as a permaculture designer.
Popular books on feminism (in Czech)
- Broomsticks Can Also Be Used for Flying, or Impossible Women Can Achieve Impossible Things, introductory feminism, Nakladatelství Lidových novin 1995
- But Aren’t You a Woman?, a book about sexist prejudices, Grada 1998
- Handbook of Militant Feminism, under the cover-name Johana Sukova, Reneco 1999
- Butterfly Nets of the Times, selected journalism, Votobia 2001
Fiction (in Czech)
- The Madwoman, a feminist sci-fi novel, Ivo Železný 1992
- A Feast of Mutagens, short story collection, Svoboda 1992
- When the Fates Make a Mistake, short story collection, Maťa 2000
- Madla’s Progress in Seven Steps, a satirical teenage romance, RoD 2000
- Frozen Cat Blues, a novel, Šťastný 2005
- Chez nous in Agony, sci-fi stories, Triton 2006
- Fish Games, a novel, Šťastný 2010
- Nights at Party Central, a novel, Argo 2014
Selected articles in English
- The Cult of Motherhood, Everywoman 74, July/Aug. 1991, 20-21
- Mind the Gap! Women from Post-Communist Countries: Conservativism or Progressivism?, Women: a Cultural Review, 3(3), Winter 1992, 238-243
- Bronchitis, Laryngitis, Otitis… and Acute Hysteria: an Essay about the Cult of Motherhood and about my Own Experience with it, Yazzyk 2, 1993, 33-36. Reprinted in: S. Trnka and L. Busheikin (eds.), Bodies of Bread und Butter, Prague, Gender Studies Center, 1993, 41-44
- Images from the Life of an Emancipated Woman, One Eye Open/Jedním okem 1, 1993, 31-38
- The Velvet Revolution and Iron Necessity. In: Carol Becker (ed.), The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility, New York/London: Routledge, 1994, 77-94
- The Good Girl, 1970 and a Bit, Yazzyk 4, 1995, 46-48.
- A New Discovery: Men are Burglars of Extraterrestrial Origin! (Women Writers and Science Fiction in the Czech Republic). In: Tanya Renne (ed.), Ana’s Land: Sisterhood in Eastern Europe, Boulder/Oxford, Westview Press, 1995, 94-98
- Why and How do Czech Women Associate? (Altos, Sopranos, and a Few Discordant Voices), Canadian Woman Studies/cahiers de la femme, 16 (1), Winter 1995, 85-89
Stories in English
- A Toothsome Smile, an Artificial Death, BBR 21, Dec. 1992, 21-23
- One Day in the Life of Zoya Andreyevna, One Eye Open/ Jedním okem 2, Summer 1993, 37-45
- The Song Which has no Heart, The Thirteenth Moon, 2(8), whole # 12, Aug. 1994, 8-13
- Between Us Girls. In: Alexandra Büchler (ed.), Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women, Seattle, Women in Translation, 1998, 107-116
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