Women's story

Women's history is a sub-area of historical studies and gender research and aims to research the work of women in history . Analogous to the English word history is also Herstory called (by replacing the - supposedly as occurring word element - masculine possessive pronoun his , "his (s)", through her , "her (e)"; an etymological connection between history and his is, however, Not). Research on women's history can - but does not necessarily have to - be feminist beeing motivated.

Development of the field

The research area emerged ( apart from pioneers like Mary Beard from England ) like other areas of women's studies in the 1970s as a result of the growing second women's movement, initially in the USA as Women's History . Historians have found that women as a group, but also as individuals, rarely appeared in traditional historiography .

The Austrian / Jewish historian Gerda Lerner , who fled from Austria to America in the Third Reich , received her impulses to conduct research on women from American history (slaves, racism, Grimké sisters). She named the beginning of the American women's movement around 1850. In 1972, she founded the first institute at Sarah Lawrence College in America where graduates could study women's history. In 1990 she established a program of study at Wisconsin International University College , where a doctorate in women's history can be obtained. She gave seminars on Mary Beard and published a book of documents about her.

The first chair in Germany for historical women's studies was given to Annette Kuhn in Bonn in 1986 . The relationship between women's history and an even more comprehensive gender history has been discussed since the 1980s . The history of women thus also became a prerequisite for a critical study of history. In the Netherlands there is the Aletta Institute for Women's History , in Germany there are five regional associations of the Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies with headquarters in Hamburg.

In 1993 Regina Wecker , professor at the University of Basel and President of the Swiss Society for History , introduced the subject of gender and women's history at the institutional level in Switzerland .

The research results of women's history - like other sub-areas of historical research ( everyday history , social history ) - have so far only found a limited entry into history lessons held in schools .

research object

Research on the history of women deals with the achievements of individual women, with the position of women in various historical societies or areas of life, and with the relationship between the sexes. Topics are for example:

• Research into the proportion of women in certain academic disciplines ( science in general or specifically in computer science , philosophy )
• Research into the proportion of women in special cultural or social areas ( music , art , the military (especially in guerrilla movements ) or politics )
• Women in prehistory and antiquity, for example with regard to suspected prehistoric matriarchy , women in ancient Rome , the position of women in ancient Egypt , women in ancient China
• Women in the Middle Ages, such as courtesans , women's mysticism
• Women in the early modern times and renaissance, such as witch hunts , querelle des femmes , women's literature
• Women in recent history and present, such as women under National Socialism or right-wing extremism , women in the Resistance , women in automotive history
• the gender history and historical gender roles
• the history of the women's movement , women's rights and feminism

Web links

Wikisource: Women  - Sources and Full Texts

• Focus on "Women's and Gender History in Westphalia"
• Women's wiki Dresden

literature

• Gisela Bock : Women in European History. From the Middle Ages to the present . CH Beck, Munich 2005
• Gisela Bock and Anne Cova (eds.): Écrire l'Histoire des Femmes en Europe du Sud. XIXe-XXe Siècles / Writing Women's History in Southern Europe. 19th-20th Centuries. Celta Editora, Oueiras 2003
• Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Ed.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, Methods, Empiricism, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-3926-8 .
• Deutscher Juristinnenbund eV (ed.), Jewish women lawyers, Munich 2019, Beck Verlag.
• Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg: Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon to life and work, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6 .
• Esther Fischer-Homberger : Illness woman and other works on the medical history of women. Huber, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-456-80688-4
• Bettina Flitner: women with visions. 48 European women. With texts by Alice Schwarzer, Munich 2004, Knesebeck Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89660-357-9 .
• Francoise Giroud: Les femmes de la Révolution, Paris 1988, Editions Carrere, ISBN 2-86804-571-5 .
• Andrea Griesebner : Feminist History. An introduction. From women's to gender history . Löcker, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85409-410-8
• Helga Grubitzsch: Loretta Lagpacan: "Freedom for women - freedom for the people!". Socialist women in France 1830–1848, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-8108-0163-1 .
• Helga Grubitzsch, Roswitha Bockholt: Théroigne de Méricourt. The Amazon of Freedom, Pfaffenweiler 1991, ISBN 3-89085-549-0 .
• Helga Grubitzsch, Maria Kublitz, Dorothea Mey (eds.): Women - Literature - Revolution, Pfaffenweiler 1992, ISBN 3-89085-504-0 .
• Florence Hervé (ed.): History of the German women's movement. 7th edition. PapyRossa, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89438-084-5 (EA Cologne 1982).
• Ursula Huffmann, Dorothea Frandsen, Annette Kuhn (eds.): Women in Science and Politics, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-491-18063-5 .
• Olwen Hufton : Women's Life: A European History. 1500-1800. From the English by Holger Fliessbach. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1998.
• Annette Kuhn , Gerhard Schneider (Ed.): Women in History, Düsseldorf 1972, Schwann Verlag, ISBN 3-590-18009-9 (seven volumes).
• Annette Kuhn, Detlef Appenzeller (ed.): Majority without power, Düsseldorf 1985, Schwann Verlag, ISBN 3-590-18043-9 .
• Annette Kuhn, Marianne Pitzen, Marianne Hochgeschurz (eds.): Politeia. Scenarios from German history after 1945 from a women's perspective, Women's Museum, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-928239-38-4 .
• Annette Kuhn (Ed.): Die Chronik der Frauen, Dortmund 1992, Chronik Verlag, ISBN 3-611-00195-3 .
• Annette Kuhn: Historia. Women's history in the spiral of time. Writings from the Haus der FrauenGeschichte Bonn, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen & Farmington Hills 2010, ISBN 978-3-86649-261-5, Annette Kuhn, Anne Schlueter
• Nelly Las (ed.): Le féminisme face aux dilemmes juifs contemporains, Sèvres 2013, Editions des Rosiers, ISBN 979-10-90108-12-7 .
• Nelly Las, Jewish Voices in Feminism. Transnational Perspectives, Translated by Ruth Morris, Lincoln, NE 2015, (Studies in Antisemitism Series) 272 p., ISBN 978-0-8032-7704-5 .
• Gerda Lerner : The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History . Oxford University Press, New York 1979.
• Gisela Losseff-Tillmanns: Women's emancipation and trade unions, Wuppertal 1978, Peter Hammer Verlag, ISBN 3-87294-127-5 .
• Angelika Schaser: Women's movement in Germany: 1848–1933, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15210-7 .
• Angelika Schaser: The Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies 1990–2015. Scientific professionalization in the network, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050354-2 .
• Anne Schlueter, Annette Kuhn (Ed.): Purple Black Book. Discrimination against women in science, Düsseldorf 1986, Schwann, ISBN 3-590-18044-7 .
• Dieter Schneider (Ed.): You were the first. Women in the labor movement , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild , ISBN 3-7632-3436-5 .
• Bonnie G. Smith: The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice , Harvard UP 2000.
• Michael P. Steinberg, Monica Bohm-Duchen: Reading Charlotte Salomon, Ithaca and London 2006, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-3971-1 .
• Rita Thalmann: Etre femme sous le IIIe Reich, Paris 1982, Laffont, ISBN 978-2-221-00859-1 .
• Barbara Vogel, Ulrike Weckel (Ed.): Women in the Estates Society. Living and working in the city from the late Middle Ages to modern times (Contributions to German and European History, Volume 4), Krämer, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-926952-25-3 .
• Marlene Zinken (Ed.): The undisguised look. Our mothers (excellent) marked through the period 1938 to 1958. Daughters remember, Opladen and Farmington Hills 2007 (writings from the House of Women's History Bonn, Volume 1, ed. Annette Kuhn, Marianne Hochgeschurz, Monika Hinterberger), ISBN 978-3 -86649-136-6 .
• Gertrude Aretz : Famous Women in World History , 1940. Full text
• Eva Kolinsky: Women in 20th-Century Germany . (English and German), Manchester University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7190-4654-8 , some of which are available from Google Books
• Georges Duby et al. a. (Ed.): History of women . 5 volumes, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993–1995;
  • Volume 1. Antike , 1993, ISBN 3-593-34910-8 ;
  • Volume 2. Medieval , 1993, ISBN 3-593-34911-6 ;
  • Volume 3. Early Modern Times , 1994, ISBN 3-593-34912-4 ;
  • Volume 4. 19th Century , 1994, ISBN 3-593-34913-2 ;
  • Volume 5. 20th century , 1995, ISBN 3-593-34914-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage
2. ^ Karin Hausen : Women's History in the United States. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 7, 1981, pp. 347-363.
3. ↑ Alice Schwarzer : Alice Schwarzer portrays role models and idols , p. 114.
4. ↑ See Alice Schwarzer portrays role models and idols , 2003, p. 115.
5. ↑ Gisela Bock : History, women's history, gender history. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 14, 1988, pp. 364-391.