Autonomous Women / Lesbian Unit

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An Autonomes FrauenLesbenreferate is a voluntary association of female students that is affiliated to the AStA , but not obligated to it . The speakers can be elected by all female students at the university and only have to give an account of them at a women's general assembly. The presentations have their origins in the second women's movement .

history

In Germany women were allowed to attend universities from 1900. But even if they succeeded in completing a degree, they were subsequently denied access to many academic professions. From 1908 to 1933 10,000 women studied, of which only 54 received a teaching position. Towards the end of the 1920s, when a third of the students were women, a debate arose about the “overstrain of emancipation” in which the “overproduction of female academics” was criticized. The law against the overcrowding of German schools and universities of 1933, which was based on anti-Semitic grounds, also introduced a gender-specific numerus clausus , according to which every second high school graduate, but only every seventh high school graduate, should receive a university place . The educational task at the schools was to prepare the girls for their role as mothers in the service of the national community. Girls were only taught a small number of hours in natural science subjects.

Women have only had access to teaching and research to a significant extent since the 1970s in the course of the second women's movement. (see also: Frauenstudium in Deutschland ) The women 's movement dealt with the structural discrimination of women in the German education system , especially in the phase of pluralization and consolidation from 1976 to 1980. In this context, women’s networks arose at universities, colleges and schools as well as autonomous ones Women's education and research centers.

One of the grievances criticized at universities and colleges is the low proportion of female professors , which was 6.3 percent in 1977 (around 19 percent in 2012). The lack of women-specific content in the seminars was also complained about. Women rarely appeared in the learned sciences. It was not until the end of the 1970s that universities accepted the challenge of feminist scientists and declared the promotion of women “as the subject and object of science” to be a goal of the university. The failure to consider longer periods of study for women due to the double burden of childcare, and the resulting financial hurdles for long-term students, was also discussed. The university as an institution was - and still is today - largely in male hands. In the mid-1970s, female students founded organizational forms and women's spaces that are not integrated into the university apparatus. Autonomy is a specialty for the women's movement in Germany and means independence from male determining power. Autonomous women / lesbian units are located between Autonomy and the university as an institution. In order to give more attention to the discrimination and invisibility of lesbians , these have been included in the name. However, there are also autonomous lesbian sections as well as lesbian and gay sections separate from autonomous women's sections.

The first autonomous women's presentations were created in 1977 in the ASten of the universities in Hamburg and Frankfurt a. M. The establishment of the autonomous women's departments was supported by the student grassroots group movement , while the union-oriented groups were skeptical of this claim to autonomy and rigorously rejected conservative student lists such as the RCDS Autonomous Women's Department. As a result of the establishment of autonomous women's departments, autonomous gay, lesbian and handicapped departments emerged at the beginning of the 1980s ; the first autonomous workers' children department, on the other hand, was first set up in 2003 at the University of Münster, based on this example in 2005, a similar representation at the University of Vienna .

tasks

Even today, colleges and universities are not free from sexism , heteronormativity and anti-lesbianism . Female students are given their own interest representation through women's / lesbian lectures. Their tasks have remained largely the same since the beginning of their creation: They stand up against any gender-specific discrimination at the university, offer a gender-exclusive shelter and often advice and organize networking meetings, lectures and workshops. In federal states that do not have a constitutional student body, the scope for design is severely limited by a lack of finances. Other departments have sufficient resources so that they can run a women's library / archive or organize lady parties if necessary .

Twice a year there is a federal networking meeting for all women's and lesbian presentations.

Women's and lesbian presentations in Germany

The naming and spelling is inconsistent at the various universities.

  • Augsburg : Women / Lesbian Section
  • Berlin (FU) : Autonomous LesBiTrans * InterA-Presentation in the AStA of the Free University
  • Berlin (FU) : Autonomous women's department in the AStA of the Free University
  • Berlin (HU) : LGBTI department as the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, inter * and trans * students in the advisory council of the Humboldt University
  • Berlin (HU) : Department for queer_feminism as the representation of women / lesbian / trans * inter * students in the advisory council of the Humboldt University
  • Bielefeld : Autonomous Feminist Unit for WomenLesbianTransGender
  • Bochum : Autonomous Women's Lesbian Unit
  • Braunschweig : Autonomous Women-Lesbian Department TU Braunschweig
  • Bremen : Autonomous Feminist Unit
  • Dortmund : Autonomous women's department TU Dortmund
  • Frankfurt am Main : Autonomous women-lesbian presentation
  • Gießen : Autonomous queer-feminist women's department in the AStA of the JLU
  • Hamburg : Women's Lesbian Council of the University of Hamburg (FLR)
  • Kassel : Autonomous Unit for Women and Gender Policy
  • Mainz : Autonomous All Women’s Department
  • Marburg : Autonomous Women / Lesbian Section
  • Münster : Autonomous women's department
  • Münster : Autonomous Lesbian Unit
  • Oldenburg : Autonomous Feminist Unit
  • Trier : Autonomous queer feminist women's department

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Blome et al. a .: Handbook on university equality policy , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2005, ISBN 978-3-8100-4216-3 , p. 25f.
  2. ↑ Ilse Lenz (Ed.): The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. A collection of sources . VS, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 , pp. 209 .
  3. ↑ Ebbinghaus, Angelika: Review by: Ilse Lenz (Ed.) “The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. A collection of sources "VS: Wiesbaden, 2008, ( accessible )
  4. ↑ Women in the Science System , Federal Ministry of Education and Research, January 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Bock, Gisela in: Ilse Lenz: “The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. A collection of sources “VS: Wiesbaden, 2008, p. 218, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
  6. ↑ Kristina Schult: The long breath of provocation. The women's movement in the Federal Republic and France 1968-1976 , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, slightly revised PDF version ( Memento from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), created in September 2012, p. 230
  7. ↑ Irene Stoehr, "A regular course of study does not lead to a women's seminar: Effects of the impending university laws" Courage, 1978, issue 1, pp. 4–7, ( accessible )
  8. ↑ Eva Blome et al. a .: Handbook on university equality policy , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2005, ISBN 978-3-8100-4216-3 , p. 25f.
  9. ↑ Heiliger, Anita: "Autonomy as a principle of the radical women's movement" in: Journal for Feminism and Work, 2004, No. 106, 21./22. Jg. ISSN  0949-0000 . ( visible )
  10. ↑ Vera Koniezka: Have mercy on men? On the establishment of an AStA women's department, in: Semesterspiegel Nr. 167, Münster October 1977
  11. ^ Andreas Keller: University reform and university revolt. Self-administration and co-determination in the full-time university, the group university and the university of the 21st century, Marburg, BdWi-Verlag, p. 250ff
  12. ↑ Tobias Fabinger: Higher education between elite production, schooling and critical educational processes , in: Ursula Reitemeyer, Jürgen Helmchen (ed.): The problem university. An international and interdisciplinary debate on the situation at universities , Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2558-3 , pp. 131f.
  13. ↑ Ingolf Erler (Ed.): No chance for Lisa Simpson? Social inequality in the education system , Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85476-220-1
  14. ↑ Gender-bases Violence, Stalking and Fear of Crime (2009–2011), research project on behalf of the EU at 33 European universities in five countries . Summary of the EU study and supplementary study at the University of Oldenburg ( Memento from March 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  15. ↑ LGBTI section in the RefRat. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Queer_Feminism-Referat in the RefRat. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .