The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs
Titelübersetzung:Die Heimatvorstellung in einer Welt der Zirkulation: Dampfmotoren, Frauen und Migration im Lichte der Bhojpuri-Volkslieder
Autor/in:
Sinha, Nitin
Quelle: International Review of Social History, 63 (2018) 2, S 203-237
Inhalt: The historical juncture of the 1840s to 1860s witnessed three developments: first, the introduction of the new means of communication (steamships and railways); second, new industrial and plantation investments in and outside of India, creating demand for labour; and third, the expansion of a print culture that went beyond the urban elite domain to reflect the world of small towns and villages. In this constellation of social, economic, and technological changes, this article looks at the idea of home, construction of womanhood and the interlaced lifecycles of migrant men and non-migrant women in a period of Indian history marked by “circulation”. Moving away from the predominant focus on migrant men, the article attempts to recreate the social world of non-migrant women left behind in the villages of northern and eastern India. While engaging with the framework of circulation, the article calls for it to be redesigned to allow histories of mobility and immobility, male and female and villages and cities to appear in the same analytical field. Although migration has been reasonably well explored, the issue of marriage is inadequately addressed in South Asian migration studies. “Separated conjugality” is one aspect of this, and the displacement of young girls from their natal home to in-laws’ is another. Through the use of Bhojpuri folksongs, the article brings together migration and marriage as two important social events to understand the different but interlaced lifecycles of gendered (im)mobilities.
"Why all the fuss about practice theory?" Zum Verhältnis von Geschlechter- und Praxistheorie aus Sicht einer Historikerin
Titelübersetzung:"Why all the fuss about practice theory?" A historian's perspective on the relation between gender and practice theory
Autor/in:
Böth, Mareike
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 1, S 13-28
Inhalt: Aus geschichtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beleuchtet der Aufsatz einerseits zentrale geschlechtertheoretische Konzepte ('doing gender', 'doing difference' bzw. Intersektionalität) als Beiträge zur Praxistheorie und arbeitet andererseits Impulse der aktuellen Praxeologie-Debatte für die Geschlechter- und Körpergeschichte heraus. Die wechselseitigen Potenziale von Geschlechter- und Praxistheorie werden anhand einer Analyse frühneuzeitlicher Körperpraktiken in den Briefen Liselottes von der Pfalz (1651-1722) aufgezeigt.
Inhalt: This article first revisits key concepts in gender studies ("doing gender", "doing difference" and "intersectionality") from a historical perspective, portraying them as crucial contributions to praxeology. Second, it draws on the impetus which practice theory can provide as regards the history of gender and the body. Based on an analysis of early modern bodily practices described in letters written by Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatinate (1652-1722), the article demonstrates how gender theory and practice theory can enrich each other.
The American Crawl - Praktiken von Geschlecht und Moderne in US-amerikanischen Schwimmbecken, 1900-1940
Titelübersetzung:The American crawl - practices of gender and modernity in United States’ swimming pools 1900-1940
Autor/in:
Stieglitz, Olaf
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 1, S 63-80
Inhalt: Schwimmen boomte in den USA während des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Es hatte seinen Platz in den Fitness- und Gesundheitsdebatten, war eine leicht auszuübende Freizeitaktivität und wurde von vielen als ein besonders demokratischer Sport beschrieben. Darüber hinaus kam dem Schwimmen in den USA zu dieser Zeit die Rolle zu, menschliche Körper als ausdrücklich ‚modern‘ zu kennzeichnen. Sie war besetzt mit Vorstellungen vom modernen Leben und seinen an bestimmte Normen und Ideale von physischem Aussehen, Handeln, Können und Leistungsfähigkeit gekoppelten Anforderungen. Hierbei waren sowohl geschlechtlich codierte Zuschreibungen als auch Auffassungen von Race zentral. Bei der Praktik des Schwimmens, so die These des Beitrags, sollten idealisierte wie normalisierte moderne amerikanische Frauen- und Männerkörper entstehen.
Inhalt: Swimming was all the rage in the United States in the early 20th century. It played an important part in health and fitness debates, it was a popular leisure-time activity and many considered it to be an especially democratic sport. Further - and this is the key argument of this article - at that time swimming marked human bodies out as explicitly "modern", swimming was regarded as a practice which made normative notions and ideals of ability, competence and beauty especially visible. These attributions were closely linked to both gendered and racialized codes. Swimming, this article argues, was supposed to create idealized male and female bodies.
Schlagwörter:USA; United States of America; Wassersport; watersports; Moderne; modernity; Körper; body; gender; Rollenzuschreibung; role ascription; Idealtypus; ideal type; Kulturgeschichte; cultural history; Schwimmen; Körperpraktiken
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Milena Jesenská und Alice Rühle-Gerstel: Konstruktionen gesellschaftlicher Nichtanerkennung
Titelübersetzung:Milena Jesenská and Alice Rühle-Gerstel: Reconstructing social non-recognition
Autor/in:
Darowska, Lucyna
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 7 (2015) 3, S 77-92
Inhalt: Den Ausgangspunkt des Artikels bildet die These, dass zwei bedeutende weibliche Intellektuelle des 20. Jahrhunderts, Milena Jesenská und Alice Rühle-Gerstel, bis heute im Verhältnis zu ihren Leistungen nur bescheidene Anerkennung erfahren haben. Nach der Darstellung der beachtlichen Leistungen der beiden Autorinnen und Aktivistinnen folgt eine Analyse der Rezeption. Insbesondere werden Momente identifiziert, die Fehlinterpretationen verursacht bzw. die Rezeption blockiert haben. Für diese Untersuchung werden theoretische Ansätze aus den Bereichen der politischen und Sprachphilosophie und der politischen Soziologie herangezogen. Neben den geschichtlichen und politischen Ursachen hat auch die asymmetrische Geschlechterordnung wesentlich zu einseitiger und zum Teil verfehlter Rezeption beigetragen. Die Mechanismen, durch die sich üblicherweise der Ruf einer Person bildet und stabilisiert, wie z.B. Präsenz in der Öffentlichkeit und Kontakt mit dem Publikum, waren nach dem frühen Tod beider Frauen nicht wirksam. Der Artikel zeigt die Notwendigkeit einer intensiveren Auseinandersetzung mit dem OEuvre und den Biografien Milena Jesenskás und Alice Rühle-Gerstels - auch innerhalb der feministischen Forschung - und will diesen Diskurs anregen.
Inhalt: The starting point for this article is the supposition that two significant female 20th century intellectuals, Milena Jesenská and Alice Rühle-Gerstel, have so far received only modest recognition for their achievements. The article briefly outlines the remarkable achievements of these two authors and activists and then analyzes the reception of their work. A number of events and processes can be identified which resulted in the misinterpretation and less than satisfactory consideration of their contributions. Theoretical approaches in the fields of political philosophy and political sociology are applied in the course of this analysis. Both the political system and asymmetrical gender power relations contributed in various ways to the false interpretation of the achievements of the two intellectuals. On account of their untimely deaths, both women were unable to build up their academic reputations, for example by means of being visible to and in contact with the public. The article demonstrates the need for further research into the biographies and legacies of Milena Jesenská and Alice Rühle-Gerstel, including from the feminist perspective. It also aspires to stimulate this critical discourse.
Inhalt: "Im Mittelpunkt des Artikels steht die Fragestellung, welche Verbindungen zwischen einer Weiblichen Kultur und der Krise um 1900 bestehen. Diese markante Zeitenwende konfrontierte den Einzelnen im Deutschen Kaiserreich mit einer Gesellschaft, die sich im Umbruch von der Agrar- zur Industrienation befand. Das Soziale und Kulturelle wurde in den Sog des Wandels gezogen. Die Zeitgenossen nahmen diese Umwälzung als eine tiefe Krise wahr. Das Geschlechterverhältnis war in einer Form von den Wandlungen betroffen, dass es zu den am meisten diskutierten Themen der Jahrhundertwende zählte. Krise, Kultur und Geschlecht überlagerten sich in den zeitgenössischen Auseinandersetzungen. An den drei verschiedenen Ideen einer Weiblichen Kultur von Georg Simmel, Marianne Weber und Benedict Friedlaender soll nachgezeichnet werden, wie sich die Verquickungen von Krise, Kultur und Geschlecht vollzogen und welche Rolle dem Weiblichen bei der Bewältigung der Krise von den drei AutorInnen zugeschrieben wurde." (Autorenreferat)
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
Titelübersetzung:Terrorismus, Gender und Geschichtswissenschaft - eine Einleitung
Autor/in:
Schraut, Sylvia; Weinhauer, Klaus
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 7-45
Inhalt: After some introductory remarks, this article gives a brief overview on contem-porary terrorism research in the political and social sciences. Then, the important contributions historical studies have made to enhance the academic knowledge about terrorism are sketched. The third part provides an overview which not only critically discusses the state of research on gendered aspects of terrorism but also demonstrates the stimulating insights gained by employing a historical perspective in this field. In the fourth chapter, the authors outline some promising topics of future terrorism research which all can be studied from gender sensitive historical perspectives. Finally the results of the contributions put together for this HSR Special Issue are summarized.
Schlagwörter:zone; soziales Milieu; gender; historische Entwicklung; social milieu; victim; communication; Raum; Kommunikation; Gender; Opfer; Diskurs; discourse; research approach; Forschungsansatz; historical development; political violence; gender-specific factors; terrorism; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; periodization of terrorism; cultures of memory
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Titelübersetzung:Politikwissenschaft, Terrorismus und Gender
Autor/in:
Herschinger, Eva
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 46-66
Inhalt: This contribution aims to give an overview on the state of the art of research on terrorism and gender in the field of Political Science and International Relations (IR). Contemporary analyses of terrorism have begun integrating gender aspects into their frameworks. This article supports the call for a much more coherent use of gender as an analytical category as this is beneficial for the analysis of ter-rorism in a threefold manner. First, gender as an analytical category in the study of terrorism exposes the gender blindness of the term terrorism; second, gender challenges the political myth of protection central to international politics, i.e. that states can legitimately fight wars to protect the vulnerable – vulgo women and children. Third, gender also challenges the myth of an intrinsic peacefulness/vulnerability of women. The paper closes with the plea to integrate a coherent historical dimension into a gendered analysis of terrorism in order to potentially achieve a more empirically attuned theoretical understanding of terrorism and political violence in current times.
Schlagwörter:international relations; gender; Stereotyp; victim; Opfer; violence; stereotype; Gewalt; woman; political violence; Täter; internationale Beziehungen; gender-specific factors; terrorism; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; political science; Politikwissenschaft; offender
SSOAR Kategorie:Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik, 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.
What happened afterwards? Change and continuity in the Hungarian elite between 1988 and 2009
Titelübersetzung:Was passierte danach? Kontinuität und Wandel der ungarischen Elite zwischen 1988 und 2009
Autor/in:
Kristóf, Luca
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 2, S 108-122
Inhalt: "This article examines social continuity and discontinuity in the Hungarian political, economic and cultural elites between 1988 and 2009. In these two decades, four empirical surveys (five among the economic elite) have been carried out at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to explore the composition, recruitment, lifestyle, and attitudes of different elite groups. This large amount of data (4773 persons, in total) allows us to follow long term trends not yet analyzed and distinguish between several types of social processes in the Hungarian elite. The analysis complements but also augments some of the main findings of the earlier literature an elite circulation and reproduction under post-communism." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Ungarn; Hungary; Transformation; transformation; postkommunistische Gesellschaft; post-communist society; Kontinuität; continuity; politische Elite; political elite; politischer Wandel; political change; historische Analyse; historical analysis; Lebensalter; age; gender; Bildungsabschluss; level of education attained; Familie; family; soziale Herkunft; social background; Partei; party; kommunistische Partei; communist party; Mitgliedschaft; membership; Wirtschaftselite; economic elite; Manager; manager; Kultur; culture; vergleichende Forschung; comparative research; postsozialistisches Land; post-socialist country
SSOAR Kategorie:Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur