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Gender and History: Transformative Histories in Times of Crisis
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Gender and History: Transformative Histories in Times of Crisis

A special issue of Histories (ISSN 2409-9252).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 12142

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Peto Andrea

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Guest Editor
Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Interests: gender studies
Prof. Dr. Eleonore Lappin-Eppel

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Guest Editor
Center for Jewish Studies, Graz University, 8010 Graz, Austria
Interests: Jewish social and intellectual history in Central Europe during the 20th century

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For our upcoming Special Issue, we are inviting research contributions which take as their starting point the exploration of women’s participation in progressive politics in different historical contexts. By trying to understand and make visible their ideas, as well as struggles, we want to present urgently required alternatives to the grim, even dystopian, political as well as academic discourses and narratives that currently prevail. Different overlapping crises: economic, financial, social, security, migration, health and care are fundamentally transforming our lives. In order to successfully deal with the social, political, and environmental challenges we face in Europe and beyond, we have to overcome the current pessimistic frameworks and rather look for new tools and innovative approaches. Additionally, past generations have been faced with comparable challenges. Therefore, it seems that a promising approach would be to explore and make visible the ideas as well as social, political and artistic interventions of women who were looking for solutions of different crises in the past. A critical discussion of the achievements and failures of these women, the forces that supported them or that worked against them, should be the starting point for developing innovative approaches to current problems. Papers discussing Jewish women’s lives in relations to ambiguities of progressive politics and identities are especially welcome together with innovative conceptual, methodological and pedagogical interventions in the field of gender history.

Prof. Dr. Peto Andrea
Prof. Dr. Eleonore Lappin-Eppel
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Gender
  • intersections
  • progressive politics
  • biography
  • crisis
  • interventions
  • transformative

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From Missionaries of Socialism to Spies of Imperialism: The Shifting Position of Soviet Women in Communist Albania
by Artan R. Hoxha
Histories 2021, 1(4), 256-266; https://doi.org/10.3390/histories1040021 - 27 Oct 2021
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After the establishment of the communist regime in Albania, many Albanian students, mainly males, went to study in the Mecca of Revolution—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Many of them fell in love there and married Soviet girls who returned with them [...] Read more.
After the establishment of the communist regime in Albania, many Albanian students, mainly males, went to study in the Mecca of Revolution—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Many of them fell in love there and married Soviet girls who returned with them to the tiny Balkan country to build socialism with their Albanian husbands. These women were considered as missionaries who were helping Albania to build a communist future. In 1960, however, their position changed when the Albanian leadership refused de-Stalinization and denounced the Soviet Union as an imperialist power. After Enver Hoxha’s split with Khrushchev, many Soviet women left Albania, but others decided to remain with their husbands in that country. Albanian authorities, considering Soviet women spies of the KGB (The Soviet Committee of State Security), persecuted many of them. Full article
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The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Turkey and Its Struggle for Gender Justice
by Ina Merdjanova
Histories 2021, 1(3), 184-198; https://doi.org/10.3390/histories1030018 - 12 Aug 2021
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This paper looks at the Kurdish women’s struggles for gender justice at the intersection of two diverse social movements in Turkey: the Kurdish national movement, on the one hand, and the Turkish feminist movement, on the other. It argues that the Kurdish Women’s [...] Read more.
This paper looks at the Kurdish women’s struggles for gender justice at the intersection of two diverse social movements in Turkey: the Kurdish national movement, on the one hand, and the Turkish feminist movement, on the other. It argues that the Kurdish Women’s Movement (KWM) has functioned as a powerful process of learning for both men and women in the Kurdish community and in the larger society. It has destabilized and transformed the feudal–patriarchal relations and norms in the Kurdish community, the lingering sexism in the Kurdish movement, and the majoritarian constraints in the Turkish feminist movement. Full article
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