Indiskrete Erinnerungen

Abstract

Feminist historical science and commitments within the framework of institutionalized science are confronted with feminist commitment in subcultures. Categories like gender identity, gender, close-reading in the context of new historicism in historical science as well as, in some aspects, Hannah Arendt's conception concerning her understanding of speech and language are dealt with. The structure of this paper refers to methodical aspects of feminist historical science by exemplifying, in what ways to look at women historically in terms of them being victims can be avoided. Biographical material about Natalie Clifford Barney is given as an example for the latter. In this context, the German and Austrian reading of American feminist theorists such as Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler and the re-import of continental European philosophical traditions, like the reception of Hegel, Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida and Bourdieu are analyzed.