ifk. Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften – Kunstuniv. Linz in Wien: Julia Boog-Kaminski und Alexander Draxl (Web)

Zeit: 02.-04.04.2025
Ort: ifk Arkade, Reichsratsstr. 17,1010 Wien – und ifk@Zoom
Registrierung für die Onlineteilnahme (hinunterscrollen) (Web)

Programme

Wed., 02.04.2025
– Iris Därmann, Déborah Brosteaux und Fiona Wachberger: Sadismus mit und ohne Sade (Workshop)
– Julia Boog-Kaminski and Alexander Draxl: Greeting and Introduction
– Marina Rauchenbacher: Taking Up Space. Feminist/Women’s Rage in Comics
– Paige Sweet: Rage. A Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
– Lisa Downing: Female Rage/Female Reason. A Paradox for 21st-Century Feminism

Thu., 03.04.2025
– Iris Därmann: Netzwerke weiblichen Widerstands in Auschwitz
– Déborah Brosteaux: Frauen im Faschismus. Eine Relektüre von Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
– Esther Lehnert: Women in the Far Right. The Dark Side of Female Anger?
– Ute Frevert: Rage, Honour, Shame. A Gendered History
– Julia Boog-Kaminski and Lena Ekelund: On the Representation of Female Rage in Contemporary Literature
– Fatma Aydemir Ellbogen (Lesung und Gespräch)

Fri., 04.04.2025
– Julia Freytag: Die Tochter Elektra. Eine Figur weiblicher Wut in Literatur und Psychoanalyse
– Fiona Wachberger: Stille Wut. Weibliche Gewalt an der Schnittstelle von Wirklichkeit und Fiktion
– Marlene Streeruwitz im Gespräch mit Alexander Draxl: Dauerzustände des Affektiven

Everyone seems to be angry these days, but female anger in particular is surfacing in unprecedented forms and shades. Numerous examples from politics, theory, art, and literature speak to the proliferation of female rage, from Greta Thunberg’s »How dare you!« and the resentment voiced by the BLM co-founders to countless new literary and academic titles. Writers like Leslie Jamison, Brittney Cooper, and Soraya Chemaly follow in the footsteps of Audre Lorde‘s The Uses of Anger (1981), (re)claiming and embracing an emotion long denied to women. In fictional works such as Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen (2017) or Virginie Despentes’ Cher connard (2022), however, the ambivalences of this self-empowering feeling also become evident. The social and political sciences, for example, have recently started to look closely at the role of women’s anger in right-wing milieus, which has long been considered male-dominated.
One of the challenges of anger is that it is essentially selfjustifying: Figures of all political stripes insist on the legitimacy of their feelings, their right to be heard. How can (queer-)feminist theory contend with the explosive contradictions, the fraught aptness of anger? What would a conception of female anger look like that takes seriously the pitfalls, intersections, and double binds at its base? What would a history of female anger entail? Is there a framework that allows us to navigate the line between the use and abuse of anger? Together with scholars, activists, artists, and writers, we want to explore the complexities and ambiguities of this emotion at a time when female anger is all the rage.

Registration for the workshop: hoegler@ifk.ac.at

More information will be available at the website (Web).

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