Lesbian research

Lesbian research describes the totality of critical knowledge about lesbians , lesbian lifestyles and history from the perspectives of a wide variety of scientific disciplines . The research focuses on the social and educational sciences , critical sexology and psychology as well as history and literary studies .

From the beginning of the 1970s, lesbian research emerged mostly outside of universities in the context of self-organized political-theoretical groups and projects without any significant institutional or financial security. Examples of this are the feminist and lesbian archives such as the Spinnboden archive in Berlin or magazines such as Ihrsinn, published between 1990 and 2004 in Bochum .

The vast majority of studies in this area were initially prepared as examination papers or dissertations , but without lesbian research becoming a recognized direction of academic research and teaching at German-speaking universities . Accordingly, can be found in the emerging since the mid-1990s, programs for gender studies and gender studies occasionally lectures on topics of lesbians research. As a specialist conference , the “Symposium on German-speaking Lesbian Research”, which is held at irregular intervals, offers a forum for the presentation of new research and for content-related and professional exchange. The autonomously organized event has no fixed location and was held in 1991 ( Berlin ), 1993 (Männedorf near Zurich , organized by the Sappho Association for the Promotion of Women's Research Projects), 1995 ( Hamburg ), 1998 (Berlin) and 2000 ( Bielefeld ) .

literature

Sabine Hark : Lesbian Research and Queer Theory : Theoretical Concepts, Developments and Correspondence. [2] In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, methods, empiricism. 2nd, expanded and updated edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2008, Part I, ISBN 978-3-531-16154-9 , pp. 108–115.
Marti, Madeleine u. a. (Ed.): Querfeldein. Contributions to lesbian research. Second symposium on German-language lesbian research , organized by SAPPHO, Association for the Promotion of Women’s Research Projects, April 16-18, 1993 in Boldern near Zurich. Bern, Wettingen. eFeF-Verlag, 1994. ISBN 9783905493658

Researchers

Professional societies

Professional Association for Homosexuality and History (FHG)
Society for Gender Studies (Gender eV)

Web links

lesbengeschichte.de
Journal of Lesbian Studies (published in the US since 1996)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Sabine Hark : Lesbian Research and Queer Theory : Theoretical Concepts, Developments and Correspondences. [1] In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, methods, empiricism. 2nd, expanded and updated edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2008, Part I, ISBN 978-3-531-16154-9 , p. 108.

[HarkHandbuch-1] A ^b ^c Sabine Hark : Lesbian Research and Queer Theory : Theoretical Concepts, Developments and Correspondences. [1] In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, methods, empiricism. 2nd, expanded and updated edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2008, Part I, ISBN 978-3-531-16154-9 , p. 108.