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Newsletter No 32

News from National Committees

GERMANY

MEETING
The annual meeting of the German Federation for Women's and Gender History was held in Bad Honnef 23-24 February 2001. Some 30 participants from 9 regional groups exchanged their observations concerning the institutional development of women´s and gender history in their respective regions as well as recent research trends. The annual meeting is an important instrument for a nation wide networking. It is completed by several regional workshops. A larger national conference of the Federation is planned to be held in spring 2003.

CONFERENCE ON MASCULINITIES
At the beginning of the year, the first German conference of researchers in men's studies was held in Stuttgart. It was organized by the German "AIM Gender" - Arbeitskreis Interdisziplinäre Männer-und Geschlechterstudien (Network Interdisciplinary Men's and Gender Studies), founded in 1999. The conference gathered some 50 mostly younger scholars (half of whom were men, the other half women) from different disciplines, many of them being historians. The aim was to establish and deepen a German network of men's studies and to present an overview of current research. The panels were conceptualized rather broadly, dealing with subjects like politics, work, sexuality, the male body, military and war, homosocial groups, fatherhood, and the relational construction of gender. The relation between men's studies and women´ and gender studies was discussed in the final session, and the participants agreed that their aim is not to establish a separate field of men's studies in the German academic landscape, but rather to add the perspective on masculinities to the existing approaches to gender studies. The next conference will be held 7-9 November 2002. More information on the conference as well as on the network is available on the internet: www.ruendal.de/aim/gender/

The first German conference on masculinities indicates a recent trend in German speaking history, cultural and social studies. After having been an established research field for quite a long time in the United States and Great Britain, masculinity has now also become a subject of interest for a growing number of German speaking gender researchers. The German History Conference in Aachen in September 2000, e.g., included for the first time a panel on the history of masculinity, organized by Karen Hagemann. Several historical or interdisciplinary journals in the German speaking countries have published special issues on masculinity, among them the Swiss historical journal Traverse vol. 5 no. 1 (1998), the Austian Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften vol. 11 no. 3 (2000), Feministische Studien vol. 18 no. 2 (2000), Die Philosophin vol. 11, no. 22 (2000), Potsdamer Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung vol. 4 no. 1+2 (2000). Historians contribute to a large extent to this growing research field.

QUERELLES-NET
In 1999, an online review journal for women's and gender research was founded. It is published by the University Centre for the Promotion of Women's and Gender Studies at Free University Berlin. The last (i.e. the 3rd) number has been published in February 2001. See www.querelles-net.de

PUBLICATIONS
Christina Benninghaus, Kerstin Kohtz (eds.): "Sag mir, wo die Mädchen sind ..." Beiträge zur Geschlechtergeschichte der Jugend. Böhlau: Köln et al. 1999, 290 pp.

Gisela Bock: Frauen in der Europäischen Geschichte. Vom Mittelatler bis zur Gegenwart (Europa bauen). C.H. Beck: München 2000, 393 pp.

Christina von Braun, Inge Stephan (eds.): Gender Studien. Eine Einführung. Metzler: Stuttgart, Weimar 2000, 395 pp.

Ute Daniel, Kompendium Kulturgeschichte. Theorien, Praxis, Schlüsselbegriffe. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt/Main 2001, 472 pp.

Rebekka Habermas, Frauen und Männer des Bürgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte, Göttingen 2000.

Teresa Kulawik: Wohlfahrtsstaat und Mutterschaft. Schweden und Deutschland 1880-1912. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 1999, 411 pp.

Christine von Oertzen: Teilzeitarbeit und die Lust am Zuverdienen. Geschlechterpolitik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Westdeutschland 1948-1969 (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; 132). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1999, 411 pp.

Susanne Omran: Frauenbewegung und "Judenfrage". Diskurse um Rasse und Geschlecht nach 1900 (Geschichte und Geschlechter; 32). Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 2000, 522 pp.

Sybille Oßwald-Bargende: Die Mätresse, der Fürst und die Macht. Christina Wilhelmina von Grävenitz und die höfische Gesellschaft. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 2000, 337 pp.

Ute Planert: Nation, Politik und Geschlecht. Frauenbewegungen und Nationalismus in der Moderne (Geschichte und Geschlechter; 31). Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 2000, 357pp.

Jürgen Reulecke, "Ich möchte einer werden so wie die ..." Männerbünde im 20. Jahrhundert (Geschichte und Geschlechter). Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 2001, 296 pp.

Thomas Späth, Beate Wagner-Hasel (eds.), Frauenwelten in der Antike. Geschlechterordnung und weibliche Lebenspraxis. Metzler: Stuttgart, Weimar 2000, 400 pp.

Antje Stannek, Telemachs Brüder. Die höfische Bildungsreise des 17. Jahrhunderts (Geschichte und Geschlechter). Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, New York 2001, 303pp.

-compiled by Wiebke Kolbe