Ruth Nattermann, LMU München and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, TU Berlin

Time: 17.–19.04.2015
Venue: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Proposal due: 14.11.2014

The project examines for the first time in a comparative way aspects of gender history regarding nation building in Italy and Germany.

A particular focus will be on the relationship between Jewish emancipation and women’s emancipation, which has been rather neglected in relevant research, the protagonists of the women’s emancipation movements, as well as the interconnection between nation, family, and female identities.

The period in question is the “long” Nineteenth Century, while the main focus will be on the years between 1848 and the First World War. Read more and source … (Web)