Category Archives: Topic_Frauenbewegungen

Klicktipp: Unüberhörbar – Jüdische Frauen in der ersten Frauenbewegung (Podcast)

Louise-Otto-Peters-Gesellschaft e.V. (Web)

Soeben ist der neue Podcast „Unüberhörbar – Jüdische Frauen in der ersten Frauenbewegung“ der Louise-Otto-Peters-Gesellschaft e.V. online gegangen. In vier geplanten Folgen erkundet „Unüberhörbar“ den Zeitraum von etwa 1800 bis 1938. Vorgestellt werden jüdische Frauen, die sich in Leipzig und Sachsen neue Handlungsräume erkämpften, ab der Mitte des 19. Jhds. zu zentralen Akteurinnen der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung wurden oder die jüdische Perspektive durch die Gründung des Jüdischen Frauenbunds verstärkt in die erste Frauenbewegung einbrachten.

Bisherige Folgen (Web)
Zarte Anfänge – Jüdinnen am Beginn des 19. Jhds. (1800–1850) (Folge 1, 17,34 Minuten) (Web)
Die Pionierin – Henriette Goldschmidt in Leipzig (1850–1920) (Folge 2, 15,14 Minuten) (Web)

Weiters geplante Folgen
Neues Selbstbewusstsein – Der jüdische Frauenbund (1900–1933) (Folge 3)
Lautes Schweigen – Antisemitismus in der ersten Frauenbewegung (1900–1945) (Folge 4)

Der Podcast wurde im Rahmen des fem/pulse 2025-Projekts „Jüdische Emanzipation und Antisemitismus in der ersten deutschen Frauenbewegung“ erarbeitet. Koordination & Umsetzung: Ida Karste | Redaktion: Thyra Veyder-Malberg | Projektleitung: Franziska Deutschmann

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Lecture: Jane Humphries: Towards an economic history of caring labour, 09.12.2026, Vienna and virtual space

WU Kolloquium „Research Seminar in Economic and Social History“ des Instituts für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der WU Wien (Web)

Zeit: Di., 09.12.2025, 17.00–18.30 Uhr
Ort: WU Wien, Gebäude D4, 3. Stock, Raum D.4.3.106 – and virtual space
For access please contact geschichte@wu.ac.at

Economists pay little attention to caring labour provided commercially and ignore it if unpaid. Disregard is theoretically indefensible, unjust, ignores services that have significant value, and probably misleads accounts of income and growth. In this lecture I will use some of my recently published research as well as new work to demonstrate the importance of care, particularly unpaid care. I look at three kinds of caring work: domestic labour or housework; breastfeeding; and end of life care. Following the conventional methodology, I infer the value of such work according to the costs/prices of contemporary market equivalents and relate aggregated values to estimates of national income. Historically unpaid domestic labour represented some 20 per cent of the value of total output, while breastfeeding represented another 1-2 per cent, or even more depending on the choice of commercial substitutes. While demonstrating care’s importance, a market equivalent valuation misses two important points. First, as care is sometimes exchanged for money and sometimes given for free, it is sometimes included in conventional estimates of output and sometimes not. With no change in actual activities, these accounting shifts are spurious.
Bizarrely, national income would fall if a woman decided to breastfeed her baby! Economic historians must ask whether such changes could have misled accounts of growth. Second, unpaid care often provides effects beyond the individuals directly involved, generating externalities that are ignored by the market and so the ‚as if marketed‘ imputation strategy. Many of these externalities relate to health and welfare and so lead to questions about the adequacy of modern GDP and its historical equivalents as measures of wellbeing. To fully understand care’s importance, economic historians must extend their macro statistical scaffold to recognize activities beyond the measuring rod of the market.

Moderation: Wilfried Kiesling

Jane Humphries (Oxford Univ.) is a Professor of Economic History and Continue reading →

CfP: Gender_Queer Worldings: Gewalt, Bündnisse, Zukunftsentwürfe (09/2026, Innsbruck); bis: 28.02.2026

11. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF) (Web)

Zeit: 23.-25.09.2026
Ort: Innsbruck
Einreichfrist: 28.02.2026

Version auf Deutsch: In einer Welt, die durch das Aufeinandertreffen multipler ökonomischer, demokratiepolitischer und ökologischer Krisen und durch das Erstarken autokratischer Systeme gekennzeichnet ist und in der Angriffe auf das Leben von Frauen*, trans*, inter*, non-binären und queeren Personen sowie auf feministische, queere und trans* Politiken zunehmen, sind die Gender Studies mehr denn je gefordert, gesellschaftliche Veränderungen zu analysieren sowie alternative Zukunftsszenarien zu entwickeln. Die Konferenz Gender_Queer Worldings befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Weisen, wie Welten geschaffen und gestaltet werden. Unter Worlding verstehen wir Formen der Weltgestaltung und -erzeugung und somit die dynamischen Prozesse, durch die Realitäten ins Leben gerufen, aufrechterhalten, angefochten und neu gedacht werden. Welt(en) verstehen wir dabei nicht als gegeben, sondern durch Beziehungen von Macht, Sorge, Gewalt und Widerstand hervorgebracht und auch veränderbar. Im Zentrum stehen die Fragen, wie Welten durch gewaltförmige Strukturen wie Patriarchat, Cis-Heteronormativität, Rassismus, Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus und Ableismus erzeugt und aufrechterhalten werden und wie feministische, crip, queere, trans*, inter* sowie post- und dekoloniale Praktiken, Politiken, Aktivismen und Wissenschaften … weiterlesen (PDF).

English version: In a world shaped by the convergence of multiple crises of economy, democracy, ecology, and the rise of authoritarian systems, accompanied by attacks on women, queer, non-binary and trans people as well as feminist, queer, and trans politics, it is imperative for gender studies to both analyse these transformations and imagine alternative futures. The conference, centred on ‘Gender_Queer Worldings’, engages with the various ways in which worlds are made and shaped. With the concept of ‘worldings’ we refer to the dynamic processes through which realities are enacted, maintained, contested, and reimagined, attending to how worlds are not given but continuously produced through relations of power, care, violence, and resistance. The conference focuses on how worlds are produced and maintained through structures of violence, such as patriarchy, cis-heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, capitalism, and ability-centrism, and how feminist, queer, crip, trans, post- and decolonial practices, politics, activisms, and scholarship might open up spaces for utopias and futurities. Read more… (PDF).

CfP: Trans Media Studies (Publication); by: 28.02.2026

Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft | Journal of Media Studies 35 (2/2026) (Web)

Einreichfrist | Proposals by: 28.02.2026

Version auf Deutsch: Fragen der Mediatisierung, insbesondere der (medialen) Sichtbarkeit und deren Folgen, bestimmen in besonderem Maße die Diskursivierung von trans* Erfahrungen. Ausgehend von den USA wird Mitte der 2010er Jahre mit dem sogenannten Transgender Tipping Point eine gesteigerte (affirmative) mediale Darstellung von trans* Geschlechtlichkeiten mit potenzieller politischer Handlungsfähigkeit verbunden. 2025 dominieren Fragen nach der Gewalt durch und in mediale(r) Exposition den Diskurs. Mit dem Erstarken autoritärer Kräfte sind trans*, inter* und geschlechtsnonkonforme Personen mit der Fortsetzung diskriminierender Politiken konfrontiert, sie werden zu einem der zentralen Feindbilder repressiv-reaktionärer Rhetorik und Politik gegen körperliche und geschlechtliche Selbstbestimmung. Die aktuelle Zuspitzung lässt sich als Ausweitung einer Gewalt verstehen, der sich z. B. BIPoC trans* Personen schon lange ausgesetzt sehen, wie Ansätze aus der Queer und Trans of Color Critique insbesondere mit Blick auf das ambivalente Verhältnis von Invisibilität, Hypervisualität und Vulnerabilität herausgearbeitet haben. Weiterlesen … (PDF)

English version: Issues of mediatization, in particular (media) visibility and its consequences, are formative for a broad range of discourses surrounding trans experiences. While increased (affirmative) media representation of trans people became associated with potential political agency in the mid-2010s – famously coined in the US as the Transgender Tipping Point –, in 2025, these discourses are dominated by questions of violence through and in media exposure. With the rise of authoritarian forces, discriminatory policies against trans, inter, and gender-nonconforming people do not only continue, but also make them the central target of a demonizing and reactionary rhetoric, and of repressive politics against bodily and gender self-determination. This escalation can be understood as an extension of violence. BIPoC trans people, for example, have long been and continue to be exposed to severe gendered and racialized violence and discrimination. In queer and trans of color critique, various approaches have been analyzing these conditions for years, particularly with regard to the ambivalent relation of invisibility, hypervisibility, and vulnerability. Read more (scroll down) … (PDF)

Source: Gender Campus

CfP: Beyond Borders: Black-Indigenous Encounters between Audre Lorde and Antonina Kymytval (Publication); by: 01.02.2026

The Archive Revisited Gazette (Web)

Proposals by: 01.02.2026

Following the Beyond Borders meeting series hosted by the WGSS Department at the Univ. of South Florida (Web), we warmly invite submissions for a special issue of The Archive Revisited Gazette celebrating Chukchee poet Antonina Kymytval’ and her brief but profoundly resonant encounter with Audre Lorde during the 1976 Afro-Asian Writers Conference in Tashkent. Lorde’s essay “Notes from a Trip to Russia” (Sister Outsider, 1984) and her poem “Political Relations” (Our Dead Behind Us, 1986) offer the only detailed accounts of this meeting, providing a rich starting point for reflection, creative engagement, and critical exploration.
This special issue invites contributors to explore the intertwined legacies of Black and Indigenous feminist Internationalism, shining a light on the intimate and often overlooked connections that transcend Cold War boundaries. At its heart, the issue celebrates Kymytval’s poetics, Indigenous resilience, and the bold, affective solidarities she shared with Audre Lorde—what Lorde evocatively described as “making love…through our interpreters.”

We invite contributions that illuminate or respond to:
– Antonina Kymytval’s poetry, especially its reflections on land, loss, survival, and relationality
– Kymytval’s role in Soviet Indigenous literary history and the tensions she navigated within Soviet assimilationist policies
– The erotic, intimate, and political dimensions of Lorde and Kymytval’s encounter, including the constraints of language, Cold War politics, and the briefness of their meeting
– How Lorde’s and Kymytval’s relationship invites us to rethink dominant East/West geopolitical frameworks
– Transnational feminist solidarities across racialized and colonized spaces
– Indigenous and Black poetic traditions as living archives of Internationalism
– Archival traces of Kymytval’ and the exciting possibilities for re-engaging with and re-reading her work today Continue reading →

CfP: Interdisziplinäre Männlichkeitenforschung: Bestandsaufnahme und aktuelle Herausforderungen (06/2026, Stuttgart); bis: 09.01.2026 [REMINDERIN]

Arbeitskreis für interdisziplinäre Männer- und Geschlechterforschung AIM GENDER, Fachbereich Geschichte, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (Web)

Zeit: 18.-20.06.2026
Ort: Stuttgart
Einreichfrist: 09.01.2026

Ziel des Arbeitskreises AIM GENDER ist die fächerübergreifende gegenseitige Wahrnehmung und Kooperation von Forschenden aus Geschichts-, Literatur-, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaften sowie Soziologie, die zum Thema Männlichkeiten und deren Auswirkungen auf Kultur und Gesellschaft in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart arbeiten. Beiträge aus anderen Fachrichtungen sind willkommen.

25 Jahre Arbeitskreis AIM GENDER
2026 kann AIM GENDER auf 25 Jahre regelmäßige Treffen zurückblicken, die dazu beitrugen, die interdisziplinäre kritische Männlichkeitenforschung sichtbar zu etablieren. Selten lag der Forschungsgegenstand in dieser Zeit so klar in seiner gesellschaftlichen Relevanz vor Augen wie gegenwärtig. Ob wir eine „masculine energy“ beschwören wollen, wie Mark Zuckerberg dies tut, oder am permanenten Ringen um Männlichkeit des Schriftstellers Karl Ove Knausgård in seinen literarischen Texten teilhaben, ob in den Feuilletons über eine „toxische Männlichkeit“ diskutiert wird oder ob wir dem Ringen um die Vorherrschaft in der augenblicklichen „Broligarchie“ in den USA zusehen: Männlichkeit ist längst aus der Unsichtbarkeit des Selbstverständlichen herausgetreten. Zentrale Begriffe und Kategorien wurden in über zwei Dekaden kritischer Männlichkeitenforschung entwickelt und sind in die öffentlichen Debatten eingeflossen, andere drängen gerade aus dem politischen in das wissenschaftliche Feld ein. Der für den akademischen Blick so wichtige Plural findet inzwischen auch in den Lebenswelten Beachtung und Anerkennung, zugleich entzünden sich an ihm nach wie vor immer neue Kontroversen.
Wir wollen das 25. Jubiläum des Arbeitskreises für interdisziplinäre Männer- und Geschlechterforschung zum Anlass nehmen, um die Verhandlung von Männlichkeiten in der Forschung und in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung zu diskutieren. Bei dieser Gelegenheit wollen wir erstens (selbst-)kritisch auf die Entwicklung des akademischen Felds zurückblicken,  Continue reading →

CfP: Self(less)-Care: Ancient and Contemporary Care Ethics from a Labor Perspective (05/2026, Pardubice); by: 15.12.2025

Research project „Loving is Caring. Towards a Platonic Care Ethics“, Univ. of Pardubice (Web)

Time: 15.05.2026
Venue: Univ. of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Proposals by: 15.12.2025

  • Keynote speaker: Stella Sandford (Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK)

In 1982 Michel Foucault concluded his lectures at the Collège de France by reflecting on our contemporary fascination with the Delphic maxim “Know thyself” (gnôthi seauton). Thus, he invited his audience to “remember that the rule that one should know oneself was regularly combined with the theme of care of the self” (2005, p.491). The widespread proliferation of public discourse on care over the past forty years exhibits a newfound contemporary fascination with care, especially self-care, worth problematizing.
In this conference, we aim to address the relational dimension of self-care, taking the ancient care of the self (epimeleia heautou, cura sui) as a point of departure for engaging contemporary care ethics in critical discussion of self-care from a labor perspective. The consolidation of contemporary care ethics has seen the simultaneous rising popularity of self-care literature that mobilizes care while dismissing relational interdependence – one of the central tenets of care ethics (Gilligan, 1982; Noddings, 1984; Kittay & Meyers, 1987). This dismissal needs explanation. In this respect, the ancient care of the self offers a unique analytical opportunity because it amounts to a version of care ethics that similarly seems to dismiss the relationality and interdependence that go into care, especially if understood from a labor perspective. Whereas ancient “freemen” committed to the theorization and practice of the care of the self, it was enslaved and women’s domestic labor that allowed for the care for the soul (epimeleia tês psuchês in Plato’s terms), which distinguished “freemen” from a bunch of “careless” others: enslaved people, women, foreigners (barbarians), children, and animals. This conference asks if similar logics of othering run within contemporary self-care.
Tellingly, Plutarch relates that Anaxandridas, the Spartan king, faced with the question as to why the Helots (forced laborers) tended to the fields, rather than the Spartans themselves, answered that “we acquired these lands not to take care [epimeloumenoi] of them, but of ourselves [autôn]” (Apophthegmata. 10.3). This helps illuminate the usually unacknowledged labor that upholds self-care, and raises questions concerning the scope of ancient and contemporary notions of self-care: namely, are these notions commensurable? While the ancient care of the self rested on exploitative relations, contemporary self-care rather seems to help the exploited further endure exploitation. Also, if self-care indeed depends on the concealed care labor of others, can we really conceive of a care that ends at the limits of the self? Should we not extend our versions of self-care to account for this labor? And would this extended version of self-care entail cultivating a selfless self (Varela, 1991), which acknowledges the always already implicated care labor of others?
This conference aims to address such questions and envision a care of the self that is not mobilized in the service of “othering” those whose forced/unpaid care labor prevents them from engaging in self-care. Maybe then we can manage to decenter the self in self-care and foster a self(less)-care that centers selflessness instead.

Possible topics include:
– Ancient and/or contemporary self-care from a labor perspective
– “Carelessness” as an ancient and/or contemporary mark of othering
– Ancient and/or contemporary care of the self beyond the self
– Ancient care ethics beyond the Greco-Roman world
– Care as a challenge to ancient and/or contemporary notions of selfhood
– Selfless self as an alternative response to ancient and/or contemporary self-care

Please send your anonymized abstract (300-500 words) in PDF format to selflesscare (at) upce.czby the 15th of December 2025, together with a title, 5 keywords, and a list of no more than six references (not to be included in the word count). In the body of the email please add a short biography of yourself. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. A notification of acceptance should be available by the end of December 2025. We are unable to provide funding, but we encourage you to consult with your home institutions.

Source: Gender Campus

Lesung und Diskussion: Nina Schedlmayer und Georgia Holz: Hitlers queere Künstlerin, 05.12.2025, Wien

Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ) (Web) in Koop. mit der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien im Rahmen der Tagung „honoris causa 2025″ (Web)

Zeit: Fr., 05.12.2025, 18:00-20:00 Uhr
Ort: VBKÖ, Maysederg. 2/28, 1010 Wien

„Hitlers Queere Künstlerin. Stephanie Hollenstein. Malerin und Soldat“: Stephanie Hollenstein, geboren 1886, stammte aus bäuerlichen Verhältnissen, zog als Soldat in den ersten Weltkrieg und lebte ihre Homosexualität offen aus. Nach dem Studium an der Münchner Kunstgewerbeschule verdiente sie sich als expressionistische Malerin und engagiert sich in der Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs. 1926 war sie Gründungsmitglied der Wiener Frauenkunst, einer progressiven Abspaltung der VBKÖ. Sie verfasste antisemitische Schriften und trat noch vor 1938 in die NSDAP ein. In Folge wurde sie 1939 als Präsidentin der VBKÖ installiert und brachte die Vereinigung bis zu ihrem Tod 1944 auf Linie.
In ihrem Buch zeichnet die Kulturpublizistin Nina Schedlmayer das Leben dieser ambivalenten Künstlerin nach, die symptomatisch für die Täter-Geschichte der VBKÖ steht. Eine Geschichte, die die VBKÖ aktiv thematisiert und aufarbeitet.

  • Nina Schedlmayer: Hitlers queere Künstlerin. Stephanie Hollenstein – Malerin und Soldat, Zsolnay Verlag 2025 (Web) | Weitere Informationen zum Buch auf artemisia.blog(Web)

Nina Schedlmayer studierte Kunstgeschichte in Wien und promovierte über Kunstliteratur im Nationalsozialismus. Sie ist Chefredakteurin des Kulturmagazins »morgen«, schreibt unter anderem für »Handelsblatt«, »Weltkunst« und »Parnass« und betreibt den artemisia.blog über Kunst und Feminismus (Web). 2017 erhielt sie den ersten Österreichischen Staatspreis für Kunstkritik.

Georgia Holz ist Senior Scientist an der Univ. für Angewandte Kunst und Mitglied des VBKÖ-Archiv Teams.

Workshop: Unsilenced Voices. Women’s Voluntary Activism in (Post)Colonial Societies, 15.-16.12.2025, Erfurt and virtual space

Gifty Nyame Tabiri, Univ. of Erfurt: DFG Research Unit „Voluntariness“ (Web)

Time: 15.-16.12.2025
Venue: Univ. of Erfurt – and virtual space

Women, throughout history, have challenged their marginalization by actively forging their own paths of social and political change. How did these endeavors look like? What forms did they take, especially during the transitional (post-)colonial periods? How did voluntariness reinforce or challenge these endeavors? Both the documentary film and our workshop will explore oral history, (un)conventional historical resources and recent research perspectives to discuss these questions, in postcolonial West African history as well as other global contexts. For more information on the topic feel free to visit our website (Web).

Programme

Mon., 15.12.2025, 06:30-09:00 pm
Film Screening: „When Women Speak“ (2022, Aseye Tamakloe)
Introduction and Discussion with Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Univ. of Ghana, and Kate Skinner, Univ. of Bristol | Chair: Gifty Nyame Tabiri, Univ. of Erfurt

Tue., 16.12.2025, 10:00 am-03:00 pm (with registration, online participation possible)
Presentation and Discussion of Recent Research Perspectives on „Voluntariness, Women’s Activism and (Post-) Colonial Narratives“

Everybody interested in the programme is cordially invited to attend the events. Both events will be held in English, online participation is possible with registration. To participate in the workshop on Tuesday, please register with Stefanie Büttner, coordinator of the DFG Research Unit “Voluntariness”, by sending an email to fg.freiwilligkeit@uni-erfurt.de.

Source: HSozKult

CfP: 20 Years of Gender in Sport – Progresses and Backlashes (10/2026, Göttingen); by: 01.03.2026

15th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport; Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Sports and Health Sociology, Univ. Göttingen (PDF)

Time: 14.-16.10.2026
Venue: Univ. Göttingen
Proposals by: 01.03.2026

Since the inception of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport in 2005, much has changed in the field of gender and sports, both in research and in practice. On the one hand, there has been an increase in research focusing on gender discrimination in sport, including research on the situation of trans and non-binary athletes. And while discriminatory and misogynistic debates about strong women in sport persist, as seen in discussions surrounding the boxer Imane Khelif at the 2024 Olympics, we are also witnessing a growing wave of international solidarity among female athletes like her in addition to critical public discourse around restrictions on femininity in sport. Even in traditionally androcentric fields, such as sports medicine and exercise science, there are encouraging signs of change. Research and public debates are increasingly addressing issues such as menstruation and pregnancy in sport, challenging long-standing gender biases. At the same time, global political trends, reflect a resurgence of a strong movement towards a new cultivation of hegemonic masculinity and queerphobia, which inevitably affect the field of gender and sport.

Twenty years after the founding of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport, we invite reflection and discussion around the following questions:
– What his(or her-)stories of gender in sport can be observed?
– What historical breakthroughs and victories for gender equality in sport have occurred, and what continuities or backlashes remain?
– What insights can an intersectional perspective offer on gender within sport practices and sports policies?
– What are the future directions for research and practice concerning gender equality in sports? Read more … (PDF)

Source: Gender Campus