] CFP: Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies within post-Communist countries

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Subject: [NEWW/AR] CFP: Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies within
post-Communist countries



 Call for Papers
>
> Feminism, Gender and Women's Movement
> from 19th to 20th centuries
> within post-Communist countries
>
> Even today, thirteen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, it is often
> only the western part of the continent that is meant when there is talk of
> Europe. The situation is especially condensed in terms of women's studies
> and gender research: in its western form, this is closely linked with the
> social and political experiences and situations or recent decades in the
> contexts of the genesis, its further developments and changes. Scholars
from
> eastern and south-eastern Europe were not integrated, or al least not to
the
> same degree, in the development of new issues, themes and approaches, and
> subsequently in changing terminologies and alternating discourses.
> As a consequence western scholars in women's and gender studies do not
know
> much about differing experiences, ideas and concepts of feminism, gender
and
> women's movement in eastern Europe.
> In January 2003 L'Homme-Association - located at the Department of
History,
> University of Vienna - started the project "Creating Networks Between East
> and West.  Intensifying scientific communication between Austria and
Eastern
> Europe concerning the field women's and gender studies".
> The project is directed by Prof. Edith Saurer, who also founded the
journal
> L'Homme. Z.F.G. (Journal for Feminist History) in 1990. One aim was the
> foundation for a democratic way of dealing with diversity in Europe and
for
> political integration.
> Beyond established contacts the project would like to stimulate research
> work and history(ies) about feminism, gender and women's movement within
> post-Communist countries. We are interested in more general overviews as
> well as more detailed analyses and case studies (historical, social and
> cultural sciences) dealing with one of the following suggestions:
>
> · the most important paradigms, phases, developments
> · concepts, terms, history of feminism and/or gender
> · origins of women's movement(s) within the several countries
>
>  Participants are requested to send an abstract (500 words) in English or
> German until the end of April 2003 to: lhomme.geschichte at univie.ac.at
> On this basis about 30 authors will be invited to write an article (15
> pages/67.500 characters) until the end of November 2003. These papers will
> be presented at a workshop in Vienna, June 2004 and published in German
(as
> volume of the series L'Homme-Schriftenreihe) in order to make the work and
> research results more accessible and widely known.
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