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"gender & more - easy to say!" is a podcast on current research and debates on the topic of gender and more. This means that we do not only take a look at gender, but also at other dimensions such as age, sexual orientation, social background, religion, ethnicity, disability and how these interact. On that point, we invite thinkers from a wide range of disciplines, both researchers and graduates of gender studies programs, to join the discussion.
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The podcast was conceived in connection with the Elisabeth List Fellowship to make gender and diversity research visible to the general public.
The podcast is intended for all interested listeners and is available free of charge on uniTUBE, spotify, anchor and itunes.
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact the person responsible, Christina Fischer-Lessiak.
Recommendations for further listening:
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Overview - Podcast episodes:
#0 Introductory episode
#2 Gender Pay Gap with Katharina Mader
#4 War Welfare with Heidrun Zettelbauer
#6 Gender in Posthumanism with Hildegard Kernmayer and Marietta Schmutz
#8 Gender and Age(s) in Popular Culture with Roberta Maierhofer and Nicole Haring
#10 Gender, Age(s), Care and Migration with Ulla Kriebernegg and Anna Kainradl
#12 The Future of Gender Studies with Andrea Pető
#14 Creativity in (Post)Socialism with Věra Sokolová, Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová and Aleksandra Fila
#16 Queer and Gender Reflective Pedagogy with Jutta Hartmann
#18 Southeast European History with Chiara Bonfiglioli and Rory Archer
#20 Endometriosis with Alekszandra Rokvity (Episode in English)
Special edition: 30 years of the Coordination Center! Part I: Pioneering work and the beginnings of the Ko-Stelle
#22 Global Antifeminisms with Judith Goetz and Stefanie Mayer
#24 KI and social work with Sabine Klinger and Susanne Sackl-Sharif
#26 digitization processes und male hegemony with Bianca Prietl
#28 Gender Inequality in Academia with Heide K. Bruckner and Sarah Wack
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#1 Old Testament Biblical Research with Irmtraud Fischer
#3 Housework with Mirko Petrić (Episode in English)
#5 Affective Worldmaking with Dijana Simić, Jana Aresin and Si Sophie Pages Whybrew
#7 Anti-Genderism with Rita Perintfalvi and Raphaela Hemet
#9 Gender Equitable Urban Development in Smart City Contexts with Anke Strüver
#11 Myth of Meritocracy with Katarina Milicevic and Lisa Prutsch
#13 Birth Cultures with Sabine Flick
#15 Work Environments with Christiane Berth, Martina Heßler, Helen Glew, and Nina Jahrbacher (Episode in English)
#17 Paternity leave with Lukas Georg Hartleb
#19 Reproductive Justice with Doris Leibetseder and Elif Gül
#21 True Crime with Corinna Perchtold-Stefan
Special Edition: 30 years of Coordination Center! Part II: Keep at it!
#23 Reproductive Justice 2 with Caroline Hammer and Martina Schmidhuber
About the individual podcast episodes:
Simply click on the "Play" icon and listen - more detailed information is provided below each podcast episode. You will also find the links to Spotify and iTunes.
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In this episode, the podcast "Gender & more - easily said" is introduced and the central terms gender, diversity and intersectionality are clarified. It also explains what gender studies and gender research are all about.
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Used and further sources:
1. gender
Villa P-I. (2019) Sex - Gender: Co-constitution instead of opposition. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Interview with Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa
2. diversity & intersectionality
Degele N. (2019) Intersectionality: Perspectives on gender studies. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Goel, U. (2021) Intertwined power relations. An intersectional perspective for administration. In: Das Diversity-Netzwerk der Kommunal- und Landesverwaltungen (ed.): Vielfalt fördern und stärken - Diskriminierung und Barrieren abbauen, 2nd edition, Cologne.
Klein U. (2019) Diversity Studies and Diversity Strategies: A plea for a theorization of practice and a conceptualization of theory. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
https://www.vielfalt-mediathek.de/intersektionalitaet
http://portal-intersektionalitaet.de/theoriebildung/ueberblickstexte/walgenbach-einfuehrung/
https://diversitaet.uni-graz.at/de/was/leitbild-mission-statement/
3. gender research & gender studies
Brand M., Sabisch K. (2019) Gender Studies: History, establishment and practical perspectives of the subject. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
https://koordination-gender.uni-graz.at/de/geschichte/
4. on medicine and gender:
Oertelt-Prigione S., Hiltner S. (2019) Medizin: Gendermedizin im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zukunft und Tradition. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Gadebusch Bondio, M., Elpiniki, K. (2014). Gender medicine. Disease and gender in times of individualized medicine. transkript Verlag, Bielefeld.
5. on biology and gender:
Palm K. (2019) Biology: material dimensions of gender in a biological-critical perspective. In: Kortendiek B., Riegraf B., Sabisch K. (eds) Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2012. sex/gender. Biology in a social world. Routledge, New York/Oxon.
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This episode features: Christina Fischer-Lessiak (moderator), Barbara Hey (Head of the Co-Office) on the term gender, Lisa Scheer (responsible for AntiBias, Diversity and the Elisabeth-List-Fellowship Program for Gender Studies ) on the terms diversity and intersectionality and Sarah Zapusek (Deputy Head and Coordination Gender Studies) on gender research / gender studies.
Music: Magnus Moone "Key Butter Craze"
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In this episode, we take a look at the gender pay gap, working conditions and care work. We talk to economist Katharina Mader, who worked as a researcher at the University of Graz as part of the Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme for Gender Studies in the research project "Digitalization: A curse or blessing for the gender pay gap?" alongside the now sadly deceased scientist Margareta Kreimer.
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Further reading:
More about Katharina Mader on speakerinnen.org
Home office: Facts & figures with Katharina Mader
Haim, D., Mader, K. & Schultheiß, J. (2022). Applauded systemic relevance: a feminist perspective on the critical infrastructure of services of general interest. A&W Blog.
Fritsch, N.S., Berger, C. & Mader, K. (2022). Care work in transition: Impact of digitalization and the COVID-19 pandemic on paid care work. A&W Blog.
Derndorfer, J., Disslbacher, F., Lechinger, V., Mader, K., Six, E. (2021). Home, sweet home? The impact of working from home on the division of unpaid work during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Katharina Mader on the compromises and uncompromising nature of feminist research
More about the Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme and the project "Digitalization: A curse or a blessing for the gender pay gap?" can be found here.
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In this episode, Heidrun Zettelbauer talks about gender history and, in particular, gender studies on the First World War. We also learn about the research project "War Welfare and Gender Politics in the First World War. Regional and global dimensions".
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Sources used and further information:
More about the research project "War Welfare and Gender Politics in the First World War. Regional and global dimensions"
More about the conference "Gender Politics and War Welfare during World War One and beyond", December 9/10, 2021
The First World War as the "the great catastrophe of the 20th century"
The front room as an "intimate space of bourgeois family idyll" is described in more detail in Schulte, Regina (1998). "The nurse of the sick warrior. Wounded care in the First World War", in: Regina Schulte (ed.). Die verkehrte Welt des Krieges: Studien zu Geschlecht, Religion und Tod. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, pp. 95-116;
Hämmerle, Christa (2014). "Mentally broken, physically a wreck ... Experiences of violence by war nurses", in: Christa Hämmerle (ed.). Heimat/Front: Geschlechtergeschichte(n) des ersten Weltkriegs in Österreich-Ungarn. Vienna: Böhlau, pp. 27-54.
Borden, Mary (1929/2008) The Forbidden Zone: A nurse's impressions of the First World War. London: Hesperus Press Limited.
More on the linguistic turn.
Sharp, Ingrid (2021). "Women of Action: Performance, Gender and the German Revolution of 1918." Feminist German Studies, 37/1, 38-60.
More about professor and project participant Ingrid Sharp
Heidrun Zettelbauer (2018). "The fragile gender of the war heroine. Discursivations of female healing and wounding power in the First World War". In: Johanna Rolshoven / Toni Janosch Krause / Justin Winkler (eds.),Heroes. Representations of the Heroic in History, Literature and Everyday Life.Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, pp. 91-126.
On the subject of masculinities: Hanisch, Ernst (2005). masculinities: A different history of the 20th century. Vienna/Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau.
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Recommendations for listening:
Voices of Cultural Studies Podcast 27: fernetzt on women's and gender history
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In this episode, as part of their project "Gender revisited. Negotiating gender in the age of posthumanism", Hildegard Kernmayer and Marietta Schmutz discuss how a highly technologized and digitalized environment affects the category of gender and changes the view on gender and the body. In addition to analyzing gender theories, the literary and cultural studies scholars will attempt to explore these questions using examples from literature, such as science fiction. They will further talk about ethical issues, breaking down power relations and the socio-political relevance of cultural studies and the humanities.
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Further information / literature references:
"Gender revisited. Negotiating Gender in the Age of Posthumanism", International Conference at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 10.-12.12.2020
Interview with Hildegard Kernmayer about the project "Gender revisited. Negotiations of gender in the age of posthumanism"
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (KWZ)
"Posthumanism. Transhumanism. Beyond the human?", 7th Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Society Graz (KWG)
"Transformations of the Human", faculty focus at the University of Graz, disciplines represented: German Studies, Romance Studies, American Studies, Translation Studies, History, Digital Humanities (in progress)
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Braidotti, Rosi (2014).Posthumanism. Life beyond the humanFrankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
Erhard, Constanze (2022). "Emotional (Tech) Support: Sexualized Care Work and Robotic Sexualities", in: Genealogy + Critique, Collection Posthuman Gender Theory, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 1-25.
Haraway, Donna (1995). "A Manifesto for Cyborgs", in:The Reinvention of Nature. Primates, Cyborgs and Womened. by Carmen Hammer and Immanuel Stieß, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 33-76.
Harraway, Donna (2003).The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Herbrechter, Stefan (2009).Posthumanism. A critical introductionDarmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Keil, Lisa (2022). "Posthumane Selbstformungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur am Beispiel von Olga Flors Ich in Gelb", in: Genealogy + Critique, Collection Posthuman Gender Theory, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 1-26.
Loh, Janina (2020).An Introduction to Trans- and PosthumanismHamburg: Junius Verlag.
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Novels/Films:
Braslavsky, Emma (2019).The night was pale, the lights blinked. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Edelbauer, Raphaela (2021).DAVE, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta publishing house.
Flor, Olga (2015).Me in yellow. Salzburg: Jung and Jung publishing house.
Klar, Elisabeth (2020).Heavenwards. Salzburg: Residenz publishing house.
The Shape of Water. Feature film by Guillermo del Toro. USA 2017.
Westworld. Television series by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. USA 2016.
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In the eighth issue, Roberta Maierhofer and Nicole Haring present the project "Gender and Age(s) in the Context of Popular Culture" by exploring the question of how digital technologies influence (inter)cultural exchange and global communication with regard to the perception of age(s) and gender.
One focus will be on cultural representations in contemporary popular literature and how current events or social movements (Black Lives Matter, MeToo) find their way into it. In addition to the impact of this approach on identities, the potential of intergenerational and intersectional approaches for feminist research will also be addressed.
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Further information / literature references:
Haring, Nicole, Maierhofer, Roberta and Ratzenböck, Barbara (eds.)Gender and Age/ing in Popular Culture- Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. (available from June 2023, OPEN ACCESS)
Maierhofer, Roberta (2020). "Clash of Generations or lived intergenerationality: Visages Villages (Agnés Varda, FR 2017): The Work of Art as a Presence of Shaped Human Existence. An anocritical reflection." In: LIMINA - Grazer Theologische Perspektiven, 3(1). 192-214.
hooks, bell (1994). Outlaw Culture- Resisting Representations. London: Routledge.
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novels:
Bennett, Brit (2020). The Vanishing Half . New York: Riverhead Books.
Evaristo, Bernadine (2019). Girl, Woman, Other (Girl, Woman, etc.). London: Hamish Hamilton.
Alvarez, Julia (1994). In the times of the Butterflies. New York: Algonquin Books.
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In this episode, Ulla Kriebernegg and Anna Kainradl talk about their project "Gender Matters: Aging, Care and Migration". Together with their research team, they look at the interplay between age(ing), care and migration through the critical lens of gender and intersectionality research. This is because migrant women in particular are exposed to special dynamics of invisibilization and marginalization in the area of health and care services in old age.
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Further information / literature references:
Grenier, A., Phillipson, C., & Settersten, R. A. (Eds.). (2020). Ageing in a global context. Precarity and ageing: Understanding insecurity and risk in later life. Policy Press.
Gullette, M. M. (2004). Aged by culture. Univ. of Chicago Press.
Kainradl, A.-C., & Kriebernegg, U. (2020). "They say we messed it up. Killing the planet with our own greed": Ageing science reflections on an intergenerational climate discourse in Margaret Atwood's "Torching the Dusties". In: Limina, 3(1), 166-191.
Katz, S. (1992) Alarmist demography: Power, knowledge, and the elderly population. In: Journal of Aging Studies, 6(3), 203-225.
Kohlen, H. (2018). Gender-equitable care work in the horizon of care ethics. In U. M. Gassner, J. von Hayek, A. Manzei, & F. Steger (Eds.), Health Research. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Vol. 1 Gender and Health, 245-275. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Kriebernegg, U. (2018). 'Time to go. Fast not slow': geronticide and the burden narrative of old age in Margaret Atwood's 'Torching the Dusties'. European Journal of English Studies, 22(1), 46-58.
Torres, S. (2020). Ethnicity and old age: Expanding our imagination (Paperback edition). Ageing in a global context. Policy Press.
Tronto, J. C. (2013). Caring democracy: Markets, equality, and justice. New York Univ. Press.
Wegleitner, K., & Schuchter, P. (2018). Caring communities as collective learning process: Findings and lessons learned from a participatory research project in Austria. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 7(Suppl 2), 84-S98.
Wegleitner, K., Schuchter, P., & Kainradl, A. (2023). Caring communities as "seedlings" of social transformation? In R. Sempach, C. Steinebach, & P. Zängl (Eds.), Care Schafft Community - Community Braucht Care, 49-73. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH.
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Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz
Conference "Age and Care Graz 2023. Aging in a Caring Society?" in September 2023
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In this episode, historian Andrea Pető talks about illiberal forces, the freedom of science and attacks on gender studies. Andrea Pető is professor at the Institute for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, a research member of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender, politics, the Holocaust and war have been translated into 23 languages. In 2018 she was awarded the Madame de Staël Prize 2018 of the All European Academies (ALLEA) for cultural values and in 2022 the Human Rights Prize of the University of Oslo. Recent publications include: The Women of the Arrow Cross Party. Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2020, and Forgetting Massacre: Budapest 1944. DeGruyter, 2021.
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Further sources/literature references:
More about Andrea Pető can be found at https://people.ceu.edu/andrea_peto
Pető, Andrea (2003). Women in Hungarian Politics, 1945-1951. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs.
Pető, Andrea; Grzebalska, Weronika (October 15, 2016)."How Hungary and Poland Have Silenced Women and Stifled Human Rights". The Wire.
Andrea Pető. How are Anti-Gender Movements Changing Gender Studies as a Profession? Religion and Gender, 2016, 6, pp.297 - 299.
Andrea Pető (2019). Research for the plastic cube. An illusory scientific world is currently emerging in illiberal states.
Pető, Andrea (2020). Scenarios for future of gender studies in Hungary.
Pető, Andrea (3 Feb 2023). "Illiberal democracy- a user manual." Haaretz
Pető, Andrea (2020). Revisiting the Life Story of Julia Rajk. Teksty Drugie 2020.1.
Éric Fassin on "paradoxical recognition": Fassin, É. (2016) Gender and the Problem of Universals: Catholic Mobilizations and Sexual Democracy in France, Religion and Gender, 6(2), 173-186.
Georgis, Dina (2013). The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East. New York: Sunypress.
"Gendering Illiberalism with Andrea Pető" (video on youtube)
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In this episode I talked to Věra Sokolová, Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová and Aleksandra Fila about the link between creativity and (post)socialism. (Episode in English!)
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Further sources/literature references:
More about the research project "Everyday Creativity in (Post)Socialism: Theoretical and Methodological Scoping"
More about doc. Věra Sokolová, M. A., Ph.D.
More about Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Ph.D.
Sokolova, V., Oates-Indruchova, L. 2021. "A feminist bridge between East and West." L'Homme: Journal of Feminist Historical Studies, 32/2, 137-139.
Hana Havelková, was one of "the mayor voices of the east-western feminist debate", as Vera said in the interview.
Hana Havelková (2009). "Triple dispossession and an interrupted opportunity: The "Prague Spring" and the women's and gender debate in Czechoslovakia", In: L'HOMME. European Journal of Feminist History 20/2, pp. 31-49.
She translated the book "Feminist Philosophy. Results, Problems, Perspectives." by the Austrian philosopher Herta Nagl-Docekal into Czech, making her thoughts accessible to Czech readers.
More about Hana Havelková online
Fraser, Nancy (1997). Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition. New York: Routledge
More about the Czech feminist artists Anetta Mona Chișa and Lucia Tkáčová
Esma's Secret - Grbavica is a film by Jasmila Žbanić.
Next year, a section on gender, post-socialism and creativity will be published in the East European Politics and Societies (EEPS) Journal, concluding the research project.
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In this episode, former Aigner-Rollett visiting professor Jutta Hartmann talks about gender studies in the field of education. She presents the research project "JupP" (2018-2021): Youth pedagogy and prevention of sexualized violence - potentials and challenges of masculinity-related youth work, sexual pedagogy, prevention of sexualized violence and queer education and explains how important a heteronormativity-critical perspective is in science. You can find out more about this and more in the interview.
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Further information / literature references:
You can find out more about Jutta Hartmann online here.
Interview with Jutta Hartman, Das Ende der Heteronormativität: "Vielfalt von der Vielfalt denken" published in Furche, July 2021, online here
Jutta Hartmann (2023). "Gender is always the case - the question is how. Queer impulses for everyday professionalization challenges". In: Land Steiermark - A6 Bildung und Gesellschaft; FA Gesellschaft - Referat Jugend (ed.). Jugendarbeit: Gleichgestellt und geschlechtergerecht: Versuch einer interdisziplinären Auseinandersetzung, pp. 103-124. Graz: Verlag für Jugendarbeit und Jugendpolitik.
"Diverse gender and sexual lifestyles at school - pedagogical opportunities & challenges", Urbi Science Talk with Jutta Hartmann, 26.01.2023
Busche, Mart/ Hartmann, Jutta/ Könnecke, Bernard/ Scambor, Elli/ Täubrich, Malte (ed.; 2022): Prevention of sexualized violence against boys*. Perspectives critical of masculinity and heteronormativity in educational work. Weinheim and Basel: Juventa.
More information on the "JupP" project can be found on the project homepage.
The explanatory film "Sexualized violence against boys* - It exists! It's never ok! Is' so!" can be found online here.
The publication on the research project "VieL*Bar: Diverse gender and sexual lifestyles in educational work - didactic potentials and challenges of museum educational approaches" is entitled "Heteronormativity-critical youth education. Reflections on the example of a model museum education project" (together with Mart Busche, Tobias Nettke and Uli Streib-Brzic).
You can find out more about the research project "Gender 3.0 in schools" online here.
Queer, endogender...what do these terms actually mean? Read more in the Queer Lexicon online: https: //queer-lexikon.net/
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In this episode the historians Chiara Bonfiglioli and Rory Archer give us insight into their research on women's and gender history in Southeast Europe in the 20th century. They talk about their individual research projects on Albanian private sector workers and the textile industry, different research approaches, and intersectionality.
Chiara Bonfiglioli is an assistant professor of contemporary history in the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari [ga foskari] University of Venice, Italy. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project titled WO-NAM: Women and Non-Alignment in the Cold War era: biographical and intersectional perspectives. From 2017 to 2023 she lectured in Gender & Women's Studies at University College Cork, where she coordinated the one-year interdisciplinary Masters in Women's Studies.
Rory Archer is a social historian of the Balkans in the20th century. He is originally from Ireland, but works at the University of Graz, more specifically the Centre for Southeast European Studies. Right now he works on two different projects, one is about Albanian migration in socialist Yugoslavia and the second is about the Yugoslav work force in Zambia. He is also teaching in the Master's Program Southeast European Studies.
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References & further information:
More about Chiara Bonfiglioli on her official website
More about Rory Archer on his official website
More information about the Croatian author Slavenka Drakulić
Kimberlé Crenshaw about intersectionality
More about the use of triangulation in research
Event information for those interested:
22-23.2.2024 Reproductive Justice in the Context of Queer and Trans Reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Conference. More information online.
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It is estimated that around one in ten women suffers from endometriosis. Reason enough to dedicate an episode to this topic. Therefore this episode deals with endometriosis and "narrative medicine". We also find out what these topics can have to do with activism and art.
Interview partner Alekszandra Rokvity studied English/American Studies and worked as a student assistant at the Institute for American Studies. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Graz and has completed a doctoral scholarship in Canada, where she also works as a guest lecturer. She has also taught in Vietnam and Serbia. Her research focuses on endometriosis in the healthcare system. She is currently working as a Junior Fellow on the research project "In/Visible Endometriosis: Menstruation, Menopause, and Narrative Medicine".
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Further information & resources:
Project website "In/Visible Endometriosis: Menstruation, Menopause, and Narrative Medicine".
Symposium "Endometriosis (R)Evolution: Making the Invisible Visible", May 23-24, 2024 in Graz
Authors of the "Sick Lit: Endometriosis Literary Series": Abby Norman, Emma Bolden, Kylie Maslen, Tracey Lindeman, Silvia Young
Lecture by Alekszandra Rokvity for the Wirth Institute (University of Alberta): Endometriosis in Social Discourse: Mental Health and Work Productivity (youtube.com)
TEDxMedUniGrazWomen Talk by Alekszandra Rokvity "Get Loud: Let's Talk About Endometriosis"
Extensive information on endometriosis: https://www.eva-info.at/ (Endometriosis Association Austria)
Endoheroes self-help group Styria: meets once a month, endometriose.graz(at)gmail.com,
Instagram: https: //www.instagram.com/endoheroes.stmk/
Certified Endometriosis Center at the Women's Clinic Med Uni Graz:
Head: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Monika Wölfler
University Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Auenbruggerplatz 14, 8036 Graz
0316 385 - 122 60, endometriosezentrum(at)uniklinikum.kages.at
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This two-part special edition of "gender & more - easily said!" is dedicated to the history of the Coordination Center for Gender Studies and Gender Equality on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The anniversary will also be celebrated as part of the 10th conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies! Further information [ h i e r ].
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In the first part, we take a look at the history of the Coordination Center up to the turn of the millennium. The episode is about the project group "Interdisciplinary Women's Studies", the open working group of the Academic Senate of the University of Graz "Women at the University", the Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues (AKGL) and much more.
Roswith Roth, Silvia Ulrich, Irmtraud Fischer and Barbara Hey get a chance to speak.
As of June 2024, the Coordination Center is headed by Barbara Hey and is organizationally assigned to the Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Gender Equality: Prof. Mireille van Poppel, PhD.
Gender studies is currently strongly represented at the university: by the Professor of Gender Sociology Libora Oates-Indruchová, the new Department of Cultural and Gender History established in 2020 , headed by Heidrun Zettelbauer, the Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies established in 1994 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program for Gender Studies and much more. The podcast "gender & more" also shows the diversity of gender research at the University of Graz. So be sure to listen to other episodes too!
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We would like to thank the following people for their valuable time and exciting conversations: Roswith Roth, Silvia Ulrich, Irmtraud Fischer, Barbara Hey, Ada Pellert, Ilse Wieser, Renate Augusta, Ute Riedler, Roberta Maierhofer, Renate Dworczak and Katharina Scherke.
Further information & sources:
Homepage of the Office of the Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues
Tabular overview of the history of the Co-Office of the University of Graz
History of women's studies at the University of Graz
Statistical data on the proportion of women, etc. can be found at https://unidata.gv.at/
Frakele, Beate; List, Elisabeth & Pauritsch, Gertrude (1987). On women's lives, men's world and
science: Austrian texts on women's studies. Vienna: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik. [Graz Project "Interdisciplinary Women's Studies" Volume 1]
Hey, Barbara & Pellert, Ada (2001). women's advancement = university reform! Documentation of the conference of the same name [Information Special Issue 1/2001]. Graz: Coordination Center for Women's Research and Women's Studies, Graz.
Hey, Barbara (2003). The program "Potentials, Barriers and Opportunities. Women at the University" program of the Graz universities [Information Special Issue 1/2003]. Graz: Interuniversity Coordination Center for Women's and Gender Studies Graz.
Hey, Barbara; Rath, Anna & Wieser, Ilse (2010). Measuring and assuring quality: Workshop reports from ten years of university-based women's advancement in Graz. Graz: Coordination Office for Gender Studies, Women's Studies and the Advancement of Women.
Hey, Barbara (2023). "Die Koordinationsstellen für Frauenforschung, Geschlechterstudien und Gleichstellung", in: Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (ed.), Von der Geschlechterpolitik zur diversitätsorientierten Gleichstellungspolitik im österreichischen Hochschul- und Forschungsraum, pp. 42-51. Vienna.
List, Elisabeth & Pauritsch, Gertrude (1994). "Projektgruppe 'Interdisziplinäre Frauenstudien' an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz", in: Gertraud Seiser/Eva Knollmayer (eds.), Von den Bemühungen der Frauen in der Wissenschaft Fuß fassen, pp. 187-196. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
Pauritsch, Gertrude; Frakele, Beate & List, Elisabeth (1988). Making children: Strategies for controlling female fertility. Graz Project "Interdisciplinary Women's Studies" Volume 2. Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag.
Pauritsch, Gertrude (1994). "Offene Arbeitsgruppe des Akademischen Senates der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz - Frauen an der Universität", in: Gertraud Seiser/Eva Knollmayer (eds.), Von den Bemühungen der Frauen in der Wissenschaft Fuß fassen, pp. 197-201. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
Schmidlechner, Karin M. (2017). "Frauen(um)wege zur Bildung", in: Karin M. Schmidlechner, /Anita Ziegerhofer/Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler/Ute Sonnleitner/Elisabeth Holzer (eds.), Geschichte der Frauen in der Steiermark: Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart, pp. 119-142. Graz: Leykam.
Simon, Getrud (1990), The Holy Family: The Meaning and Purpose of an Institution. Austrian texts on women's studies. Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag. [Graz Project "Interdisciplinary Women's Studies" Volume 3]
Unterholzer, Carmen & Wieser, Ilse (1996). Above the roofs of Graz, Liesl is true. Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag.
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The 22nd episode of "gender & more - easily said!" is about the book "Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity", which was published in 2023. I spoke to the editors and authors Judith Goetz and Stefanie Mayer about anti-feminism, antigenderism, the status quo and possible counter-strategies.
Judith Goetz is a literary and political scientist, gender researcher, right-wing extremism expert and member of the Ideologies and Politics of Inequality Research Group (FIPU). She is currently employed as a university assistant in the Department of Political Education and Social Inequality at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on feminist theories, anti-feminism, memorial culture, political education and the fight against right-wing extremism. In 2024 she received the Maria Ducia and the Johanna Dohnal Prize.
Stefanie Mayer studied political science with a combination of women's studies, contemporary history and journalism at the University of Vienna and completed her studies with a dissertation on debates about racism and anti-racism in white feminist activism in Vienna. She is currently a research assistant at the Institute for Conflict Research in Vienna and also works as a lecturer at various institutions, such as the FH Campus Wien. She deals with anti-/racism, right-wing extremism, right-wing populism, anti-feminisms, anti-genderism, feminist and postcolonial theories.
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Further information & resources:
Judith Goetz "Women's Rights and Women's Hate" Reading and Discussion
Feminist Theorizing - Activism, Academia and back again - Lecture by Stefanie Mayer
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In this episode, we talk to Irmtraud Fischer about gender studies in Old Testament biblical research. It's about images of women, feminism, sexuality and the Catholic Church.
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Sources and further reading:
Information on Irmtraud Fischer
Irmtraud Fischer (2021). Love, vice, lust and suffering: Sexuality in the Old Testament.
Fischer, Irmtraud & Petschnigg, Edith (2021). Gender research - do we need it?
The Bible and Women An exegetical and cultural-historical encyclopedia
Daly, Mary (1986). Beyond God the Father Son & Co: Towards a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Munich : Publ. Women's Offensive
Sommer, Norbert (1985). Nennt uns nicht Brüder: Frauen in der Kirche durchbrechen das Schweigen. Stuttgart : Kreuz-Verlag.
Zimmermann, Ruben (2015). Hermeneutics. Retrieved online at https://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/stichwort/100005/ (20.2.2022)
Winkler, Dietmar (2010). Diakonat der Frau: Befunde aus biblischer, patristischer, ostkirchlicher, liturgischer und systematisch-theologischer Perspektive. Vienna: LIT-Verlag.
Anna Elisabeth Meiers:The Second Vatican Council and Women.Theological Faculty Trier, 50 Years II. Vatican Council, retrieved on September 1, 2021.
About the person Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza (Wikipedia)
About the person Olympe de Gouges (Wikipedia)
About the person Mary Wollstonecraft (Wikipedia)
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In the third issue, Mirko Petrić talks about (in)equalities in domestic work in a Southeast European context. Mirko Petrić first studied Comparative Literature and American Studies and then specialized in Sociology. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Zadar and Expert Advisor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Regional Center Split. His research focuses on the relationship between gender and media as well as cultural sociology, empirical methods and theories of cultural studies. This episode is in English - a summary in German is in preparation.
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Literature & Information:
More about Mirko Petrić here and here
Interview with Mirko Petric from Invent
More about the project "Gender and age/s in the Central and Southeast European context"
More about Feminist Standpoint Theory
Dr.sc. Ksenija Klasnić on housework here, here and here.
Laura Frader: "[...] paternalistic socialist states where women were defined primarily as workers yet were also expected to serve men (the "big children") within the household" In: Frader, L (2006). "Book Reviews," Signs, 31/2, pp. 578-85.
Derado, A & Petrić, M (2020). "Relational Gender Strategies in the Division of Household Labor," Revija za sociologiju, 50/3, pp. 321-351.
Crompton R, Lewis S and Lyonette, C (eds). (2007). Women, Men, Work and Family in Europe. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Friedman, T.L. (2005) The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Gal, S & Kligman, G (2000). The Politics of Gender after Socialism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Giddens, A (2003) Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives. New York: Routledge.
Oakley A (1974). The Sociology of Housework. London: Martin Robertson.
Touraine, A (2007). New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World. Cambridge: Polity.
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In this episode, Dijana Simić, Jana Aresin and Si Sophie Pages Whybrew talk about their research as part of the project "Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality", in which the three humanities scholars pursued different research questions on the topic of affect theory. They will also talk about gender studies in the humanities, the analysis of texts, counter-publics and affiliations.
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Radio Helsinki program: "Gender, Affect, and Politics - a 3-Part Series by the Intimate Readings Research Group" (2021)
References / Further reading:
Arsenijevic, Damir/Šehabovic, Šejla/Gacnik, Marko (2022). "Plan B". In: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 209-2018.
Atay, Ahmet (2022). "Mediated Narratives as Companions". In: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 201-208.
Bašic, Adisa (2022). "Selected Poems". In: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 45-48.
Berlant, Lauren & Warner, Michael. "Sex in Public." Critical Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, 547-566.
Butler, Judith (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York: Routledge .
Clough, Patricia & Halley, Jean (2007). The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Durham: Duke University Press.
Friedman, May (2022). "What World is Made?: Gender and Affect in Three Life Moments". In: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 63-70.
Muñoz, José Esteban (2009) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: NYU Press.
Schultermandl, Silvia, Aresin, Jana, Pages Whybrew, Sophie Si & Simic Dijana (2022). Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and SexualityBielefeld: transcript Verlag. (OPEN ACCESS)
Schultermandl, Silvia & Cvetkovich, Ann (2022). "Affective Worldmaking in Times of Crisis: An Interview". In: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 75-84.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (2003) Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke University Press. ("reparative reading")
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In the seventh issue, Rita Perintfalvi and Raphaela Hemet present their research that is part of their project "Resistance necessary? - Identity and gender struggles in the context of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today". In this project, they deal with the concept of "anti-genderism", an activism against gender equality and anti-discrimination, especially in countries in Eastern Central Europe, where right-wing populist attitudes and policies are currently spreading. In conversation, they will also discuss the potential of an interdisciplinary exchange between science and activism, address illiberal forms of society as a threat to European democracy and provide insights into starting points for transformation processes.
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Further information / literature references:
Hark, Sabine, Villa, Paula-Irene (eds.) (2015):Anti-Genderism. Sexuality and gender as sites of current political debates. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Hemet, Raphaela (2021). "Volk - Heimat - Brauchtum. Stagings of Austrian folklore within right-wing populist narratives. In: Anti-Genderism in Europe. Alliances of Right-Wing Populism and Religious Fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 93-105.
Perintfalvi, Rita (2021). "The struggle for gender equality as a struggle for democracy. Anti-genderism in Hungary in the context of a >>sacralization of politics<<". In: Anti-genderism in Europe. Alliances of right-wing populism and religious fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 173-185.
Perintfalvi, Rita (2021). "LGBTIQ people as targets of aggressive right-wing populist and religious fundamentalist attacks and their criticism". In: LIMINA - Graz theological perspectives, 4(1). 158-176. Available at: https: //limina-graz.eu/index.php/limina/article/view/109
Perintfalvi, Rita (2022). "Anti-genderism and pedophilia discourse as a political-church battleground. The case of Hungary". In: L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist Historical Studies, 33(2). 137-146. V&R Unipress. Available at: https: //www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/lhom/current
Stoeckl, Kristina, Uzlaner, Dmitry (2022).The Moralist International. Russia in the global culture wars. New York: Fordham University Press.
Strube, Sonja A., Perintfalvi, Rita, Hemet, Raphaela, Metze, Miriam & Sahbaz, Cicek (eds.) (2021): Anti-Genderismin Europe: Alliances of Right-Wing Populism and Religious Fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript publishing house. (OPEN ACCESS)<
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"Resistance necessary?" - Identity and gender struggles in the horizon of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today", online symposium as part of the project 14 - 16.10.2021
Lecture series "Anti-Genderism - Criticism and polemics against gender concepts" at the University of Regensburg in WS 2022/23; Zoom link for all lectures can be found here
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Anke Strüver and her research team investigated how the digital networking of cities/districts affects the population as part of the project "Gender-equitable urban development in the smart city context". Using the example of food delivery service platforms in Graz and Vienna, among others, which have increased significantly, especially against the background of lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, the researchers dealt with questions of precarious working conditions, gendered and racialized division of labor as well as social and spatial privileges. You can hear about this and more in the ninth edition of the "Gender & more" podcast.
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Further information / literature references:
Bauriedl, S., Wiechers, H. (2020): Contours of a platform urbanism. Social and spatial manifestations of a digital divide using the example of smart mobility. In: sub/urban. Journal for Critical Urban Research (Vol. 9/No. 1/2). 93-114.
Ecker, Y., Strüver, A. (2022): Towards alternate Platform Futures in post-pandemic cities? A case study on platformization and changing socio-spatial relations in on-demand food delivery. In: Digital Geography and Society (3), 1-11.
Ecker, Y., Rowek, M., Strüver, A. (2020): Care on demand: gender-normalized work and spatial structures in platform-based care work. In:"Platform capitalism and the crisis of social reproduction". Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag. 112-129.
Strüver, A., Bauriedl, S. (eds.) (2022) :Platformization of Urban Life. Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. (OPEN ACCESS)
Strüver, A., Bauriedl, S. (2020): Smart cities and socio-spatial justice: housing and mobility in large cities. In: Günter, S. (ed.): Yearbook StadtRegion. Digital Transformation. Heidelberg: Springer. 91-109.
Further project publications can be found here.
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Interview with Anke Strüver as part of the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program
Announcement Interview with Anke Strüver in the format scoble - The new city on 3sat
Website of Niels van Doorn/Platform Labor
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In this podcast episode, Katarina Milicevic and Lisa Prutsch discuss the influence of primary and secondary origin effects on educational decisions and how the myth of meritocracy has an impact here. The aim of this episode is to get listeners thinking - who makes it into tertiary educational institutions in the first place and what obstacles do they have to overcome to get there?
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This episode was created by students of the University of Graz. It was developed as part of the lecture "Education is for everyone! - Myths, social inequality and classism at schools and universities". The lecturers were Scheer Lisa and Kink-Hampersberger Susanne. The contribution was created for the MOOC "Gut durch den Hochschulalltag: diversitätssensibel, vor(ur)teilsbewusst und inklusiv", which is available to all interested parties at https://imoox.at/course/antibias.
The following book reviews have been included:
Brown, N. (2022). Gathering. (J. Thomae, Trans.) Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag (Original work published 2021)
Contact: l.prutsch(at)edu.uni-graz.at (Lisa Prutsch)
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In this episode, Sabine Flick talks about her research on birth cultures.
Sabine Flick studied sociology and was a doctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation in the DFG Research Training Group "Gender Relations and Public Spheres. Dimensions of experience". She has been Professor of Gender and Sexuality in Social Work at Fulda University of Applied Sciences since 2021. Her habilitation (2020) dealt with the biographization of social suffering. She has worked at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of California, Berkeley and Tel Aviv University. In addition to her research and teaching activities, she works as a freelance coach and supervisor in the field of psychosocial work.
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Further sources/literature references:
You can find out more about Sabine Flick here.
Böcker, Julia (2022). Miscarriage and stillbirth: A cultural sociology of the experience of loss. Weinhiem Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag.
Flick, Sabine; Marek, Franziska; Hesse, Friederike M. (2022). Cultures of birthing in transition. Austria Z Sociol 47, 1-8. doi. org/10.1007/s11614-022-00476-1
Flick, Sabine; Marek, Franziska; Hesse, Friederike M. (2022). Birth cultures in transition. Focus issue of the Austrian Journal of Sociology. Volume 47, issue 1.
Jung, Tina (2017). The "good birth" - the result of correct decisions? A critique of the current self-determination discourse against the backdrop of the economization of the obstetric system. In: GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society. 2017(2), 30-45.
Jung, Tina (2018). Safe births? Construction and experience of safety in obstetrics in the context of its economization. In: Krüger-Kirn, Helga/Wolf, Laura (eds.): Motherhood between construction and experience. Opladen & Toronto: Budrich Verlag, pp. 63-78.
On the topic of "floating signifier" - The term comes from semiotics and designates a sign or symbol that has no clear meaning and is therefore open to different interpretations.
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In this episode, four female researchers talk about their case studies on the topic of work. We hear how technology is changing the world of work and what feelings and gender have to do with it. The episode is in English!
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Further sources/literature references:
More about the research project can be found here.
As the research project is still ongoing, please visit the homepage to find out about upcoming events!
Event recommendation: Austrian Contemporary History Day, April 11-13, 2024 at the University of Graz. Further information can be found here: https: //zeitgeschichtetag-2024.uni-graz.at/de/
Christiane Berth in an interview https://www.aircampus-graz.at/podcasts/christiane-berth/
Martina Heßler in an interview https://www.bibb.de/de/95898.php
Interview withHelen Glew https://www.youtube.com/watch?source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjQsMTY0NTAz&feature=emb_share&v=IpGSiHyjA-Y
More about Nina Jahrbacher here
More about Monika Arnez - project participant here.
Heidi Schweickert - researcher in the field of the history of technology, more about her and her research activities can be found here
Berth, Christiane (2023). Interrupted Conversations: Gender and Telephone Use in Mexico, 1930s-70s. In: Technology and Culture. 64,1. 124-148. doi:10.1353/tech.2023.0004
Glew, Helen (2020). 'Maiden, whom we never see' : cultural representations of the 'lady telephonist' in Britain, c.1880-1930, and institutional responses. In Information & Culture: A Journal of History. 55 (1), pp. 30-50. doi. org/10.7560/IC55103
Martina Hessler (ed.) (2020). Emotions of technology. (= History of technical culture, vol. 9). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Peniston-Bird, Corinna; Vickers, Emma (2016). Gender and the Second World War: Lessons of War, Gender and History. Springer Publishers Ltd.
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Lukas Georg Hartleb, BA MA MA studied Sociology and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Graz, was a writing-peer-tutor and has recently become a freelancer and lecturer for academic writing. In his final thesis, he dealt with paternity leave under the title "Operational framework conditions for caring masculinities in the Austrian private sector". In this episode, he uses a case study to discuss how companies can either encourage or complicate the situation for men wanting to take over care responsibilities.
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More on the topic:
European research project "Men in care - Workplace support for caring masculinities"
Baumgarten, Diana / Lengersdorf, Diana / Meuser, Michael (2020): Caring Masculinities? On the change in (the understanding of) paternal responsibility. In: Buschmeyer, Anna / Zerle-Elsäßer, Claudia (eds.): How the concept of 'family' is changing in the 21st century. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 63-87.
Heilmann, Andreas / Korn, Aaron / Scholz, Sylka (2019): Introduction. From growth to care? Masculinities in the transformation of capitalist growth societies. In: Heilmann, Andreas / Scholz, Sylka (eds.): Caring Masculinities? Masculinities in the transformation of capitalist growth societies. Munich: oekom, 13-42.
Article Forms, deadlines, money: Why fathers find it difficult to take parental leave, moment.at (17.12.2021)
Article "Väterkarenz: Von der Gesellschaft akzeptiert und vom Staat gefördert?", derstandard.at (30.01.2023)
Article "Fathers on parental leave? A quota can fix it", derstandard.at (22.07.2023)
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In this episode, we take a look at reproductive justice with a focus on queer and trans*reproduction. Doris Leibetseder and Elif Gül are working together on a project on this topic and give an insight into the considerations and findings to date. In the following, the focus will be on clarifying the basic concepts (including what is "reproductive justice"?) and also on ethical issues and prevailing discrimination. For all those interested, please note that there will be another episode on this research project!
Doris Leibetseder studied philosophy, history and Spanish and completed her doctorate with a thesis on subversive strategies of queer genders in rock and pop music. Dey has since taught at several Austrian universities, as well as Durham University in England and the University of California in Berkeley. Research activities have taken Dey to Graz University of Technology, Uppsala University in Sweden, the University of Cambridge and, most recently, the University of Graz. Leibetseder is currently working as a post-doctoral assistant at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel. Their research focuses on reproductive technologies, ethics and queer and trans studies.
Elif Gül studied Cultural and Social Anthropology as well as the Master Gender, Sexuality, and Society and has held a pre-doc position in Gender Studies at the Institute of Education since 2021. Her research focuses on sexuality and the body, feminist science and technology studies, childbirth practices and contraceptive methods. She also works in various contexts as a sex educator.
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Further sources:
Ediger et al (eds.) (2021).Reproductive technologies: Queer perspectives on reproductive justice. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.
Kitchen Politics (ed.) (2021).More than self-determination! Struggles for reproductive justice. Münster: edition assemblage.
Loretta J. Ross (2021). "Reproductive Justice. A framework for anti-essentialist and intersectional politics", in: Kitchen Politics (ed.) (2021).More than self-determination! Struggles for reproductive justice. Münster: edition assemblage.
Chadwick, Rachelle (2018). Bodies that birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics. London/New York: Routledge.
Castañeda, Angela et al (eds.) (2022). Obstetric Violence: Realities and resistances around the world. Ontario: Demeter Press.
Website of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, including a fact sheet on assisted reproductive technologies: https: //www.boell.de/de/reproduktive-gerechtigkeit
SisterSong, https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice
FAmOs - an association for the support of rainbow families (Austria)
Information from the Women's Health Center: https: //www.frauengesundheitszentrum.eu/treffen/
Birth preparation courses for queer people
RosaLila PantherInnen - https://www.homo.at/
Information about Rose's Revolution on Wikipedia
Movie tip: Orlando, my political biography (by Paul B. Preciado)
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Various statistics suggest that the majority of true crime consumers are women. But is that really the case? And what could be the reasons for this? In this episode, Corinna Perchtold-Stefan answers these and other questions and presents her research project "Horror as creative emotion regulation - Can true crime consumption help women to deal more adaptively with fear and threat in everyday life?".
Interview partner Corinna Perchtold-Stefan studied psychology and specialized in biological psychology, i.e. the connection between brain and body reactions with human experience and behavior. In her research, she focuses on malevolent creativity - creativity that aims to harm others, psychopathology and emotion regulation. In 2019, she received the Women's Prize of the Faculty of Natural Sciences for outstanding scientific achievement. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz and a lecturer at the Private University College of Teacher Education of the Diocese of Linz.
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Further information & resources:
More about Corinna Perchtold-Stefan
Homepage Biological Psychology Graz - Research field True Crime
Contribution by Corinna Perchtold-Stefan at the symposium Inge St on Brain & Violence (2023)
ARD: Quarks (2024) - True Crime: What does it do to our psyche?
Barbara Karlich - Talk um 4 (2024) - The fascination of crime
MDR (2023) - Why women love true crime
Der Standard (2023): Why we watch true crime even though it scares us.
Vicary, A. M., & Fraley, R. C. (2010). Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(1), 81-86. doi. org/10.1177/1948550609355486
Harrison, M.A., Frederick, E.J. Interested in serial killers? Morbid curiosity in college students. Curr Psychol 41, 3768-3777 (2022). doi. org/10.1007/s12144-020-00896-w
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This two-part special edition of "gender & more - easily said!" is dedicated to the history of the Coordination Center for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The anniversary will also be celebrated as part of the 10th conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies! Further information [ h i e r ].
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In the second part, key players from the history of the Coordination Center talk about projects and measures, developments and the importance of gender equality work.
Barbara Hey, Ada Pellert, Ilse Wieser, Renate Augusta, Ute Riedler, Roberta Maierhofer, Renate Dworczak and Katharina Scherke get a chance to speak.
The Coordination Center of the University of Graz is here to stay!
As of June 2024, the Co-Office is headed by Barbara Hey and is organizationally assigned to the Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Gender Equality: Univ.-Prof. Mireille van Poppel, PhD.
Gender studies is currently strongly represented at the university: by the Professor of Gender Sociology Libora Oates-Indruchová, the new Department of Cultural and Gender History established in 2020 , headed by Heidrun Zettelbauer, the Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies established in 1994 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program for Gender Studies and much more. The podcast "gender & more" also shows the diversity of gender research at the University of Graz. So be sure to listen to other episodes too!
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We would like to thank the following people for their valuable time and exciting conversations: Roswith Roth, Silvia Ulrich, Irmtraud Fischer, Barbara Hey, Ada Pellert, Ilse Wieser, Renate Augusta, Ute Riedler, Roberta Maierhofer, Renate Dworczak and Katharina Scherke.
Further information & sources:
Homepage of the Office of the Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues
Tabular overview of the history of the Co-Office of the University of Graz
History of women's studies at the University of Graz
Statistical data on the proportion of women, etc. can be found at https://unidata.gv.at/
Frakele, Beate; List, Elisabeth & Pauritsch, Gertrude (1987). On women's lives, men's world and
science: Austrian texts on women's studies. Vienna: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik. [Graz Project "Interdisciplinary Women's Studies" Volume 1]
Hey, Barbara & Pellert, Ada (2001). women's advancement = university reform! Documentation of the conference of the same name [Information Special Issue 1/2001]. Graz: Coordination Center for Women's Research and Women's Studies, Graz.
Hey, Barbara (2003). The program "Potentials, Barriers and Opportunities. Women at the University" program of the Graz universities [Information Special Issue 1/2003]. Graz: Interuniversity Coordination Center for Women's and Gender Studies Graz.
Hey, Barbara; Rath, Anna & Wieser, Ilse (2010). Measuring and assuring quality: Workshop reports from ten years of university-based women's advancement in Graz. Graz: Coordination Office for Gender Studies, Women's Studies and the Advancement of Women.
Hey, Barbara (2023). "Die Koordinationsstellen für Frauenforschung, Geschlechterstudien und Gleichstellung", in: Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (ed.), Von der Geschlechterpolitik zur diversitätsorientierten Gleichstellungspolitik im österreichischen Hochschul- und Forschungsraum, pp. 42-51. Vienna.
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In the seventh issue, Rita Perintfalvi and Raphaela Hemet present their research that is part of their project "Resistance necessary? - Identity and gender struggles in the context of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today". In this project, they deal with the concept of "anti-genderism", an activism against gender equality and anti-discrimination, especially in countries in Eastern Central Europe, where right-wing populist attitudes and policies are currently spreading. In conversation, they will also discuss the potential of an interdisciplinary exchange between science and activism, address illiberal forms of society as a threat to European democracy and provide insights into starting points for transformation processes.
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Further information / literature references:
Hark, Sabine, Villa, Paula-Irene (eds.) (2015):Anti-Genderism. Sexuality and gender as sites of current political debates. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Hemet, Raphaela (2021). "Volk - Heimat - Brauchtum. Stagings of Austrian folklore within right-wing populist narratives. In: Anti-Genderism in Europe. Alliances of Right-Wing Populism and Religious Fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 93-105.
Perintfalvi, Rita (2021). "The struggle for gender equality as a struggle for democracy. Anti-genderism in Hungary in the context of a >>sacralization of politics<<". In: Anti-genderism in Europe. Alliances of right-wing populism and religious fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 173-185.
Perintfalvi, Rita (2021). "LGBTIQ people as targets of aggressive right-wing populist and religious fundamentalist attacks and their criticism". In: LIMINA - Graz theological perspectives, 4(1). 158-176. Available at: https: //limina-graz.eu/index.php/limina/article/view/109
Perintfalvi, Rita (2022). "Anti-genderism and pedophilia discourse as a political-church battleground. The case of Hungary". In: L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist Historical Studies, 33(2). 137-146. V&R Unipress. Available at: https: //www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/lhom/current
Stoeckl, Kristina, Uzlaner, Dmitry (2022).The Moralist International. Russia in the global culture wars. New York: Fordham University Press.
Strube, Sonja A., Perintfalvi, Rita, Hemet, Raphaela, Metze, Miriam & Sahbaz, Cicek (eds.) (2021): Anti-Genderismin Europe: Alliances of Right-Wing Populism and Religious Fundamentalism. Mobilization - Networking - Transformation. Bielefeld: transcript publishing house. (OPEN ACCESS)<
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"Resistance necessary?" - Identity and gender struggles in the horizon of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today", online symposium as part of the project 14 - 16.10.2021
Lecture series "Anti-Genderism - Criticism and polemics against gender concepts" at the University of Regensburg in WS 2022/23; Zoom link for all lectures can be found here