Titelübersetzung:Geschichte des Wissens, Terrorismus und Gender
Autor/in:
Grisard, Dominique
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 82-99
Inhalt: This article focuses on 20th-century terrorist phenomena as gendered objects of knowledge produced and disseminated through history books, mass media and state institutions. By taking 1970s West German terrorism as my field of inquiry, this article will critically discuss how a bourgeois understanding of violence as fundamentally masculine has shaped the way terrorism has been represented, conceptualized and historicized thus far. I will go on to problematize the mas-culine gaze of mass media and state institutions and their tendency to objectify the terrorist. Last but not least, I will delineate how mass media and historiog-raphy of terrorism have relied on a narrative structure that pits rebellious sons and masculine daughters against figural and literal fathers, a frame that is overtly masculine and familial. In so doing I will point to blind spots in the study of 1970s terrorism, namely masculinity and the gender of state institutions. My goal is thus to show how not just individual and symbolic, but also institutional facets of the bourgeois gender order influence the way terrorism has been conceptualized and historicized thus far.
Schlagwörter:Massenmedien; Diskurs; discourse; gender role; Federal Republic of Germany; Geschlechtsrolle; historiography; RAF; Geschichtsschreibung; feminism; masculinity; mass media; gender; Stereotyp; Gender; stereotype; woman; Feminismus; political violence; Männlichkeit; terrorism; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; RAF; oedipal narrative
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Escaping/transgressing the feminine: bodies, prisons and weapons of proximity
Titelübersetzung:Weiblichkeit überwinden/überschreiten: Körper, Gefängnisse und die Waffen der Nähe
Autor/in:
Agra Romeo, María Xosé
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 115-134
Inhalt: Assuming that gender relationships are essential to any analysis of terrorism and political violence, I shall examine how the sex-gender stereotypes work, as well as their transgressions. The female military protagonists in the Abu Ghraib media scandal and the women prisoners of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the dirty protest in Armagh (1980) are used as a framework in which issues of visibility/invisibility, independence/ dependence, invulnerability/ vulnerability of women will be addressed. The paper pays particular attention to both the violence against the body and also to the use of the body as a political weapon. From this perspective I analyse both the differences and similarities of menstrual blood as a weapon of proximity in both contexts. The two cases have in common the fact that they occurred in prisons and that women embodied non-traditional roles: soldiers, women political prisoners, allowing for reflection from feminist perspectives on the female inclusion in the citizenship, on participation in political violence and terrorism and on agency and autonomy.
Ehepaare, Eheverläufe und Lebenslauf in Leipzig 1580-1730: KLEIO-Anwendung in einem historischen Forschungsprojekt
Titelübersetzung:Married couples, courses of marriages and life careers in Leipzig from 1530 to 1730: KLEIO application in an historical research project
Autor/in:
Hoffmann, Barbara; Horn, Klaus
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 15 (1990) 3, S 171-198
Inhalt: Der Beitrag gehört in den größeren Forschungszusammenhang der Historisierung der Geschlechterbeziehungen. Im vorliegenden Projektbericht wird die Ehe als dominante Form institutionalisierter Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Frühen Neuzeit untersucht. Am Beispiel Leipziger Ehepaare werden die Veränderungen 'bürgerlicher' Eheverläufe und Ehevorstellungen verfolgt, um so einen Einblick in den Vorgang zu gewinnen, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts zu den allgemeinen Vorstellungen von 'bürgerlicher Ehe', der 'bürgerlichen Familie' und der 'bürgerlichen Frau' als 'Hausfrau und Mutter' führte. (pmb)