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Klicktipp und CfP: GenderOpen – Ein Repositorium für die Geschlechterforschung (Portal): Forschungsliteratur in PDF-Form online frei zugänglich

GenderOpen – Ein Repositorium für die Geschlechterforschung (Web)

Auf GenderOpen werden seit 2017 wissenschaftliche Texte Feld der Geschlechterforschung, die zuvor in anderen Medien wie Zeitschriften erschienen sind, online gesammelt. Sie können hier – kostenfrei – heruntergeladen werden.
Der Bestand wird laufend erweitert. Derzeit sind bereits mehr als 2.000 Texte eingestellt, die zwischen 1978 und 2023 publiziert wurden. Das Schlagwort „Geschichte“ ist dabei aktuell 1.470-mal vergeben worden (Link).

Call for participation
Autor:innen sind außerdem eingeladen, eigene Texte unter Open-Access-Bedingungen als Erst- oder Zweit-Veröffentlichung zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Finanziert wird GenderOpen von der DFG. Die Ziele sind:

  • Veröffentlichungen aus der Geschlechterforschung als Open Access-Publikationen an einem zentralen Ort zu sammeln, um sie möglichst umfassend abzubilden und dauerhaft und unkompliziert frei zugänglich zu machen.
  • Die Geschlechterforschung ist im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen wissenschaftlichen Fächern relativ jung und durchläuft derzeit einen starken gesellschaftlichen Validierungsprozess. GenderOpen will dazu beitragen, die Geschlechterforschung zu stärken, indem die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse nach außen präsentiert sowie leichter verbreitet werden.
  • Als zentrale Anlaufstelle will GenderOpen Autor/innen unterstützen, die Texte im Bereich der Geschlechterforschung produzieren. Dabei geht es einerseits darum, ihnen eine Plattform zu bieten, auf der ihre Texte auch Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung eine hohe Reichweite haben und die langfristige Verfügbarkeit gesichert ist.
  • GenderOpen will zudem Autor/innen über ihre Rechte und Möglichkeiten im Bereich der Zweitveröffentlichung informieren, die ihnen im Rahmen des deutschen Urheber/innenrechts gegeben sind.
  • GenderOpen will die Geschlechterforschung dabei unterstützen, die Vorteile des elektronischen Publizierens unter echten Open-Access-Bedingungen auch zu nutzen.

CfP: Inaugural Issue of Remedial Herstory: A Journal of Women’s History for Educators (Publication); by: 31.08.2024

Remedial Herstory: A Journal of Women’s History for Educator (Web)

Proposals by: 31.08.2024

The editors are excited to announce a call for proposals for the inaugural issue of Remedial Herstory – an online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Remedial Herstory Project.

Purpose and Scope
The journal aims to provide a platform for scholarly research on women’s history while striving to make academic content more accessible to educators and their students. We are committed to presenting research that not only explores contributions to the field of women’s history but also pieces that offer pedagogical strategies for educators. Through this dual focus on content and teaching, Remedial Herstory aims to empower educators to bring women’s history to life in their classrooms, inspiring the next generation to value and learn about the important historical contributions of women.

Potential Themes and Topics
Owing to the work of scholars who have launched the field of women’s history over the last half century or so, the editors invite proposals that explore the intricate relationship between theory and practice through both content-based and pedagogical articles. For instance, in the field of early modern Britain, Amy Erickson has argued that a “disjuncture between theory and practice” exists insofar as women were often able to circumvent restrictive legal doctrines through a variety of everyday practices. In other words, she argues, law should not automatically be read as prescriptive of women’s lived experiences. This point extends beyond any one region or time period, and, as such, authors could submit content-based pieces that consider:

– How societal expectations and cultural norms perhaps influenced, but did not entirely dictate, women’s actions and choices.
– The discrepancy between political rights and the real political participation of women. Read more … (Web)

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Publication); by: 01.09.2024

Social Sciences (Web); Suzanne Clisby (Univ. of Lincoln) and Mark Johnson (Univ. of London)

Proposals by: 01.09.2024

In this Special Issue of Social Sciences the editors invite papers that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore peoples everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here they adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By „gender“ the editors mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnic ity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. The editors see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects.
The editors view culture not only as a process of communication and contested arena of meaning making practices, but also as a process of invention and innovation. Here we ask how equalities are produced, embodied, objectified and visualised in and through a variety of cultural practices and sites. Investigating cultures of gender equality also requires us to examine the relations of inequality that are its corollary: this includes attending to how authorised versions of equality and inclusivity may produce new divisions and/or reproduce and reinforce existing inequalities. Read more and source … (Web)

Social Sciences is a Q1 open access journal published through MDPI Publishers. There is a standard open access publication fee indicated in the call above. (Web)

CfP: Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe (Event, 11/2024, Crete); by: 31.07.2024

Katerina Dalacoura, Vaia V. Geragori, Maria Paitaki, Vasiliki Papadopoulou, and Kostas Tsampouras (Crete), Krassimira Daskalowa and Valentina Mitkova (Sofia), Giorgos Manios (Athens), and Ivana Pantelić (Belgrade) (Web)

Time: 28.-30.11.2024
Venue: Univ. of Crete, Greece
Proposals by: 31.07.2024

The First World War was followed by an increased and intensive political movement aiming to eliminate likelihood of new wars and consolidate peace on a global scale. This movement is reflected in the foundation of international peace and diplomacy organizations, with the League of Nations prevailing among them, the signing of a series of treaties between states securing the new border status quo, minority treaties and amity and cooperation agreements, as well as in elaborated visions of forming „state federations“ across Europe. In this context, the Balkan states with a long history of competing nationalisms, wars, and rallying to rival war camps, gradually shifted towards pursuing political rapprochement and mitigating national-political differences, while the new Central European states that had arisen from the dissolution of the central empires and the redrawing of national borders sought alliances to enhance security against presumptive revisionist attempts by neighboring countries. At the same time, the unsolved national-transnational political issues and the new ones created by the post-war treaties, most notably that of ethnic minorities, the rivalries of the victorious Great Powers in the region, the gradual dominance of totalitarian and bellicose politics and the risk of a new great war that began to loom on the horizon, prioritized national security and acted as centrifugal forces from ‚the transnational and international‘ to ‚the national‘, while the revisionist and anti-revisionist camps and politics began to form distinct.
In this context, feminist movement, reconstituted and increased in density and massiveness, found a fertile ground for linking its activity to international politics and diplomacy. International women’s organizations (feminist, professional, peace organizations), national affiliated organizations, as well as regional associations emerged at the time, recognizing that progress towards full political and social rights and security for women depends on a peaceful and stabilized world, declared it „their duty“ to work for international relations and … read more (Web).

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Towards Intersectional Feminist Singlehood Studies (Publication); by: 10.08.2024

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Web); Ea Høg Utoft (Nijmegen), Mante Vertelyte (Copenhagen), and Lonneke van den Berg (Den Haag)

Porposals by: 10.08.2024

Alongside the growing share of single people globally (Kislev, 2019; Adamczyk & Trepanowski, 2023), the need for scholarly attention to singlehood as an identity, an experience, and a socio-cultural phenomenon is increasingly recognized. Historically, research has tended to take singlehood as a byproduct of coupledom, implying that single lives are viewed as empty, meaningless and marked by failure (Cobb, 2012; Lahad, 2017; Pickens & Braun, 2018). Moreover, scientific accounts of singlehood often simplistically draw associations with wellbeing and happiness, assuming that coupled individuals are better off on both variables (see critiques of these approaches, e.g. DePaulo, 2023a; Lahad, 2023). In response, leading singlehood scholar Bella DePaulo (2017, 2023a) argues that research must take singlehood as an object of study in its own right. This means that we need to approach singlehood as a process of subjectivation and, rather than uncritically reproducing assumptions and stereotypes about single people as (only) lonely and miserable, we must openly explore the multiplex configurations of singlehood and singles’ varied life experiences.
By mobilizing their activist traditions of questioning mainstream knowledge-production paradigms as well as social hegemonies and injustices, gender studies and related critical fields (such as queer studies, critical disability (or crip) studies, and critical race studies) are ideally positioned to take on the study of singlehood. These fields of study are already undertaking research on singles, with scholars from various (other) fields also engaging with feminist and other critical epistemologies in their studies of singlehood. This special issue therefore constitutes a concerted effort to bring together such fairly scattered research, with the ambition of showing, echoing Kinneret Lahad, how intersectional feminist and related epistemologies are central to advancing the field of singlehood studies. Read more … (PDF)

Source: Gender Campus

CfP: Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory: Audre Lorde’s thought and philosophical legacy (Event, 10-11/2024, Rhode Island and virtual space); by: 09.08.2024

2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory (Web)

Time: 31.10.-02.11.2024
Venue: Univ. of Rhode Island, USA and virtual space
Proposals by: 09.08.2024

The aim of the Roundtable is to create a working space for participants of various backgrounds to receive feedback on their projects that will enrich Black feminist and womanist traditions. Concurrent with the Roundtable, FEAST will hold its 2024 meeting on Audre Lorde’s thought and philosophical legacy. The 2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory (BFWT) will be held in connection with the 2024 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). Read more … (Web)

About BFWT
The Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory was founded in 2019 as a working space for scholars, artists, activists, and theorists across disciplines and professional trajectories to share work highlighting intellectual contributions of Black women, femmes, and non-men throughout the African diaspora. This will be its 5th annual conference.

About FEAST
Founded in 1999, the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory is a professional organization dedicated to promoting feminist ethical perspectives on philosophy, moral and political life, and public policy that centers decolonized, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approaches. Its aim is to further the development and clarification of new understandings of ethical and political concepts and concerns, especially as they arise out of feminist concerns regarding underrepresented and marginalized women . including BIPOC, Third World, disabled, and LGBTQIA – as well as those arising from marginalized identities and marginalized issues. The organization seeks to create spaces to interrogate and address the philosophical and practical underpinnings of white privilege and racist violence in its many forms, including in feminist theory and practice.

Source: Gender Campus

Menschen – Maschinen – Umwelten | Humans – Machines – Environments: 10. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung, 18.-20.09.2024, Graz

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF) (Web)

Zeit: 18.-20.09.2024
Orte: Univ. Graz & Technischen Univ. Graz
Anmeldung (Web)

Programm (PDF)

(Nachwuchs-)Wissenschafter:innen aller Disziplinen und auch Künstler:innen setzen sich mit der hochaktuellen Frage auseinander, inwiefern die weitreichenden bio- und informationstechnologischen Entwicklungen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte Transformationen gesellschaftlicher Arbeitsteilung und der Geschlechterhierarchie(n) zur Folge haben. Behandelt werden dabei Themen wie die Rolle von Geschlecht in der Technik, die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Maschine sowie Vorurteile in der künstlichen Intelligenz.

Keynotes
– Kylie Jarrett (Maynooth): Work Beyond Work: Reproduction in the Platform Economy
– Claude Draude (Kassel): Response-ability in Sociotechnical Systems Design
– Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (Berlin): Uncertain Intelligences: Moving Beyond AI Generated Myths of Accuracy & Certainty

Panels
– Mediale Techniken des Sich-Erzählens
– Glitch-/Xeno-/Cyber-/Netz. Technomaterialistische Körperkonzepte in den neuen Feminismen
– Narratives of Environmental Entanglements, Eco-Linguistics, and Digital Storytelling
– Algorithmisch vermitteltes Arbeiten & Lernen
– Trans* Studies Now?
– Performativität im Digitalen
– Reproductive Justice and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
– Mobile Körper – Radfahren Continue reading →

Klicktipp: Gender Campus. Informations-, Kommunikations- und Vernetzungsplattform für Gender Studies und Chancengleichheit in der Schweiz

Gender Campus (Web)

Die gesamt-schweizerische Informations-, Kommunikations- und Vernetzungs-Plattform Gender Campus ist ein Pionier:innen-Projekt in der Schweizer Hochschul-Landschaft. Akteur:innen aus den Bereichen Gender Studies und Chancengleichheit an Hochschulen pflegen hier auf institutionen- und hochschul-übergreifender virtueller Ebene  den nationalen und internationalen Austausch.

Gender Campus wurde im Jahr 2001 von Vertreter:innen der Universitäten (UH) und Fachhochschulen (FH) initiiert und ist seit seinem Beginn am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung der Universität Bern angesiedelt. Weiterlesen … (Web)

Unter der Rubrik „Aktuelles“ (Web) informieren die Macher:innen des Gender Campus über aktuelle fachspezifische Ereignisse. Hier finden Sie unter anderem Hinweise zu Veranstaltungen und Reihen, Tagungen, offenen Stellen und Stipendien sowie Call for Papers (Web).

CfP: Transnational Queer Histories (Series); by: open

de Gruyter (Web)

Proposals by: open

The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches. The series is intended to platform and support scholarship from academics at all levels of their careers, and to give voice to researchers and topics that have until now been unrepresented or underrepresented in academic publishing circles. As such, it is the editor’s intention to open the doorways for innovative, new research, highlighting non-traditional approaches and subject matter. TQH’s title is its programme; the editors seek work that is

  • transnational and/or comparative in scope, not (strictly) limited to one geographic locality;
  • queer in the broadest sense, encompassing not just homo- and cis-normative experiences but also a variety of gender and sexual identities, including (but not limited to) bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, transgender and intersex lives; and
  • historical, with work drawing principally from modern and early-modern history, in whichever way the contributor defines these.

In this way, the editors seek to encourage the creation of a body of new scholarship that moves away from the confines of (generally) white, male, homonormative, cisgender queer history that has tended to characterise the subdiscipline. While these narratives remain important to queer history, the editors encourage innovative approaches to them through new and hitherto-underutilised avenues of inquiry. Thus, they seek to foreground the broad and vibrant diversity of queer experiences throughout history.
TQH accepts proposals for both monographs and edited collections; work may be submitted in English or German. As noted, the editors seek work from scholars at all career levels. If you are unsure whether the work you have in mind would be a good fit under the TQH banner, please do not hesitate to contact the editors with an informal inquiry. They will do their best to advise you whether we would welcome a more formal proposal from you, as above. Continue reading →

Klicktipp: Helene Maimann: Käthe Leichter – Eine Frau wie diese (Film 2016, 53 Min.)

Dokumentation von Helene Maimann (A, 2016, 53 Min.): Käthe Leichter – Eine Frau wie diese (Web)

Der Film wurde ausgestrahlt unter dem Titel „Käthe Leichter – eine Frau im Widerstand“ in der Reihe „Kreuz und Queer“ auf ORF 2 am 16.07.2024 und ist in frei verfügbar in der Meditathek „Joyn“ (Web)

Beschreibung: „1895 geboren als Tochter einer großbürgerlichen jüdischen Familie rebelliert Marianne Katharina Pick schon früh gegen die Konventionen der Zeit: Sie schließt sich der bürgerlichen Jugendbewegung an und studiert als eine der ersten Frauen Staatswissenschaften und Nationalökonomie. Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Nachkriegsrevolutionen radikalisieren die junge Wissenschaftlerin. Käthe Leichter wirft sich mit Herz und Seele in die Arbeiterbewegung. Sie glaubt fest an den Sozialismus und daran, die Befreiung des Menschen und damit auch die  der Frauen selbst noch erleben zu können.
Mit ihren umfangreichen Untersuchungen über das Leben von arbeitenden Frauen versucht Käthe Leichter, die Frauen zu ermutigen, um ihre Gleichstellung in Beruf und Familie zu kämpfen. Bis zuletzt gibt sie die Hoffnung auf den Sieg ihrer Überzeugungen nicht auf. Sie geht nach dem Bürgerkrieg vom Februar 1934 zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann, dem Journalisten Otto Leichter, und den beiden Söhnen ins Schweizer Exil, um wenig später zurückzukehren und eine führende Rolle im Widerstand gegen den autoritären Ständestaat einzunehmen. Nach dem ‚Anschluss‘ Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich im März 1938 verkennt Käthe Leichter ihre gefährliche Lage als jüdische Frau, widerständige Sozialdemokratin und Intellektuelle und bleibt, um legal auszuwandern. Ende Mai 1938 verhaftet sie die Gestapo. Nach eineinhalb Jahren Haft wird sie zu einer mehrmonatigen Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt und danach sofort wieder der Gestapo übergeben. In dieser Zeit schreibt sie ihre ‚Kindheitserinnerungen‘, ein bewegendes Zeugnis über die untergegangene Welt des Wiener jüdischen Bürgertums, gewidmet ihren beiden Söhnen Heinz und Franz, die wie ihr Vater das rettende Ausland erreichen konnten. Internationale Interventionen und Visas, die auf dem britischen und amerikanischen Konsulat auf sie warten, nützen nichts: Sie wird Ende 1939 in das KZ Ravensbrück deportiert und im März 1942 ermordet.
In Helene Maimanns Porträt erzählen neben ihrem Sohn Franz Leichter, dem späteren langjährigen State Senator von New York die Historikerinnen Jill Lewis, Gabriella Hauch, Veronika Duma, Linda Erker, Elisabeth Klamper und Sabine Plakolm sowie der Soziologe Christan Fleck aus dem Leben einer der großen Pionierinnen Österreichs.“