Research and Study Center for Gender History, Department of History, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Time: 13.-15.10.2011
Venue: University of Graz, Austria
Deadline for proposals: 31.03.2011
Paper proposals must contain the title of the paper, an abstract of not more than 400 words (3,000 characters incl. spaces) and a short profile of the contributor. Proposals will be accepted until March 31st, 2011, at nina.kogler@uni-graz.at.
The history of the body has been a key topic in international women’s studies and gender studies since the 1970s. While debating the history of the body, gender theory fundamentally changed perspectives in anticipation of new theoretical approaches which would become increasingly important in the wake of the ‚cultural turn‘ in humanities and history later on.
In the 1980s, Barbara Duden called for a radical historicisation of the (female) body in „The woman beneath the Skin (Geschichte unter der Haut)“, whereas in the 1990s, Judith Butler argued in her books „Gender Trouble“ and „Bodies that matter“ that both gender and body should be considered as entirely cultural construed. Continue reading