Auf dem Weg zu einer Geschichte der vielen Geschichten des Frauen-Aktivismus weltweit
Der Beitrag schlägt eine Reihe von Strategien vor, die darauf abzielen, Konzepte, die die Geschichtsschreibung zu den Frauenbewegungen des Westens lange geprägt haben, so zu erweitern und zu verändern, dass sie dazu dienen können, die Geschichte des Frauen-Aktivismus weltweit in angemessener Weise darzustellen. Sichtbar wird dabei zum einen, dass es sich bei den Frauenbewegungen des Westens um einen Spezialfall der Geschichte des Frauen-Aktivismus in der Moderne gehandelt hat. Dieser zeichnete sich durch den organisierten Zusammenschluss von (ausschließlich oder hauptsächlich) Frauen für (ausschließlich oder hauptsächlich) geschlechtsspezifische Agenden und damit auch durch systematische Zonen des Schweigens aus. Zum anderen zeigt der Beitrag, wie die Auseinandersetzung um die Positionierung gegenüber globaler Dominanz und Ungleichheit die Geschichte des Frauen-Aktivismus weltweit jedoch keinesfalls stets in gleichem Maße oder überall auf dieselbe Weise geprägt hat. In dem Maße wie die Geschichtsschreibung zum Frauen-Aktivismus diese Auseinandersetzung konzeptuell als Teil der Geschichte des Frauen-Aktivismus weltweit fasst, trägt sie auch dazu bei, erweiterte und adäquatere Zugänge zu den vielen örtlichen Geschichten des Frauen-Aktivismus zu entwickeln.
The Institutionalization of Women's and Gender Studies in Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Asymmetric Politics and the Regional-Transnational Configuration
Women's and Gender Studies in higher education have developed in Central Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space since the late 1980s within the context of a complex triangle made up of the interests and impact of a whole variety of transnational actors, the changing politics of higher education at national and university levels, and the interests and aspirations of academics on the ground. The study explores these constellations as they changed over time, and varied within the post-"state-socialist" world from one sub-region to the other. It highlights the often unequal processes of internationalization, the partial privatization, EU-ization, and national reform of higher education and the role played by the dedication of academics spreading the word and the institution, as the major factors producing the success story — even if always endangered — of the Women's and Gender Studies trade in the "other half of Europe". The strategic function ascribed in Central and Eastern Europe to Gender Studies as a symbolic marker of pro-Western educational "reform" has been shaping both the fortunes of Women's and Gender Studies in the region and the academic, political, and discursive opportunities available for those involved in research and teaching in this field.
Book Review: M. Feinberg: Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950
MELISSA FEINBERG. Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship,and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia,1918–1950. (Pitt Series in Russian and East EuropeanStudies.) Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of PittsburghPress. 2006. Pp. viii, 275. $35.00.
The Challenge of multinational empire for the international women's movement: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Development of Feminist Inter/National Politics
This article analyzes strategies of transnational organizing as developed in the international women's movement prior to 1918, comparing the International Council of Women (ICW) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA). These organizations developed divergent schemes of dealing with political entities that did not conform to the western notion of the nation state, and with women's movements from these regions. In this context, neither the ICW nor the IWSA overtly challenged constitutional arrangements characterizing the pre-existing, deeply hierarchical international order. Yet in collaborating with organized women from the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, as well as from other dominated nations and regions in European and non-European contexts, the IWSA developed a cautious partisanship for national emancipation and self-determination. The study analyses how ICW and IWSA engaged in constructing the feminist inter/national through a complex set of policies relating women's international representation to state, nation, citizenship, and territory.
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Einhorn, Barbara: Cinderella goes to market. Citizenship, gender and women's movements in East Central Europe
Szegényügy, Toloncügy, Koldulás
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