Workshop "Gender and empire: A trans-imperial approach to gender politics and the colonial state, 1848-1945" (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 18–20 June 2018) (original) (raw)

Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

2014

Guest editors' introduction to special issue of _Gender & History_, co-authored with Michele Mitchell (NYU) with assistance from Stephan F. Miescher (UC Santa Barbara). Introduces special issue theme and provides overview of articles organized under the topics of "labour," "commodities," "fashioning politics," and "mobility and activism."

On the colonial legacy and (re)nationalization of gender

2019

At first glance, the relevance of historical sociology for gender sociology is evident; the temporal and spatial confinement of gender relations is a basic gender-theoretical concern (Fraisse 1995). But while the relation between social theory—that is, the analysis of causal agents and mechanisms (Calhoun 1998; Mahoney 2004)—and historical perspectives has been deepened since the 1970s and resulted in a renewal of historical sociology in the US, »the ›engagement‹ of feminism and historical sociology has been marked by neither romance nor passion« (Adams 1997, 5). Gender sociology has primarily aimed at placing gender as an analytical category in the mainstream of social theory (Smith 1989; Brück et al. 1992; Wharton 2005; Gildemeister and Hericks 2012). Accordingly, gender sociologists have focused on varying social mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of gender as a central category of social inequality and power asymmetry in different fields of social life like labor, po...

New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire Comparative and Global Approaches

New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire : Comparative and Global Approaches, 2018

Eva Bischoff teaches International History at Trier University. Her research interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/ queer studies. She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Her thesis was published as a monograph in 2011, entitled: Kannibale-Werden. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Männlichkeit um 1900 (transcript). She recently concluded a book project investigating the history of a group of Quaker families and their roles in the process of settler imperialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Bettina Brockmeyer is a historian and currently postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Center "Practices of Comparison" at Bielefeld University. Her research interests include gender history, colonialism, biographical writing, and history of medicine and the body. She is the author of Selbstverständnisse. Dialoge über Körper und Gemüt im frühen 19. Jahrhundert (2009). She co-edited the Journal InterDisciplines (2016) on "Race, Gender, and Questions of Belonging. " In her current book project she is working on colonial biographies in an entangled Tanzanian-German-British history.

Gender and Politics in World History from the Industrial Revolution through Modern Globalization

This course explores the politics of gender, and the gender of politics in world history from the Renaissance through the Age of Revolutions. We will study formal politics-statecraft -and its relationship to the politics of family and everyday life (and vice versa). From the fertility transitions of the nineteenth century through the growing prominence of women in politics in the twenty-first century, gender constructions have shaped the everyday lives of men and women as well as the establishment of governments, empire, and commerce. We will analyze gender and sexuality as ways of signifying and structuring power and as significant factors in historical change. Like the rest of the core courses, this class aims to understand history in order to illuminate the processes that continue to influence our world. In addition to understanding the ways that past conceptions of gender and politics shaped the present, we will consider the contemporary concerns that shape our understandings of history.