The end of reason in history? Historians, historiography, and feminist movement in Germany (1970s-1980s)

历史上理性的终结？

• 批准号: 271350928
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Ralph Jessen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Neuere Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/271350928?language=en
• 关键词: end; reason; history; Historians; historiography

This project investigates the formation and development of women and gender history in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Although history as a political argument and concepts of historical research played an important role in debates about gender relations during that period, the topic has not yet been the subject of historical investigation. Gender as a meaningful category of historical analysis was discovered in a process that connected professional historians and their academic environment and the political and social movement of feminism as well. A heterogeneous and fragile coalition of scholars, students, and feminist activists started to discuss questions of historical knowledge and truth along the lines of gender relations, thereby challenging the order of gender relations in academia itself. They did not only raise methodological and epistemic questions, but also criticized and subverted the professions common practices on an institutional and social level. The study focusses on the complex negotiation processes and practices constituting the new field of knowledge and on its struggle for academic credibility. Inspired by recent approaches in historiography and history of science based on theories of practice, it analyzes how these practices affected the production of knowledge in historical research as well as the legitimacy and acceptance of a feminist research agenda. On the one hand the study examines the communication practices of participating scholars. This entails research on networks and channels of communication both within academic organisations and the growing feminist infrastructure with its publishers, special archives and educational projects. Special attention is paid to transnational relations with historians from the United States, which had a crucial impact on German debates and practices. On the other hand, the project examines the strategies applied by scholars of women and gender history to enhance both academic and political credibility, thus focussing on performative and aesthetic dimensions of academic practices.

该项目调查 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代德意志联邦共和国妇女的形成和发展以及性别历史。尽管历史作为一种政治争论和历史研究的概念在这一时期关于性别关系的争论中发挥了重要作用，但这一话题尚未成为历史调查的主题。性别作为历史分析的一个有意义的范畴，是在将专业历史学家及其学术环境以及女权主义的政治和社会运动联系起来的过程中被发现的。一个由学者、学生和女权活动家组成的异质而脆弱的联盟开始沿着性别关系的思路讨论历史知识和真理问题，从而挑战学术界本身的性别关系秩序。他们不仅提出了方法论和认识论问题，而且在制度和社会层面上批评和颠覆了职业惯例。该研究的重点是构成新知识领域的复杂谈判过程和实践，以及其为学术可信度而进行的斗争。受到基于实践理论的史学和科学史最新方法的启发，它分析了这些实践如何影响历史研究中的知识生产以及女权主义研究议程的合法性和接受度。一方面，该研究考察了参与学者的传播实践。这需要对学术组织内部的网络和沟通渠道以及不断增长的女权主义基础设施及其出版商、特殊档案馆和教育项目进行研究。特别关注与美国历史学家的跨国关系，这对德国的辩论和实践产生了至关重要的影响。另一方面，该项目研究了妇女和性别历史学者为提高学术和政治可信度而采用的策略，从而重点关注学术实践的表演和美学维度。