CfP: "Women’s Movements and Formations of Knowledge – Political and Epistemic Practices" (2/2025)

We are looking for texts for the thematic issue "Women’s Movements and Formations of Knowledge – Political and Epistemic Practices" of the "Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften" 2/2025, edited by Johanna Gehmacher and Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna); deadline: 15 December 2022.

"Women’s Movements and Formations of Knowledge – Political and Epistemic Practices"

Feminism as a widely used term of the late 20th century refers to both a political agenda and a formation of knowledge. This multiple meaning is not least due to the dynamic connection between the burgeoning women’s movements and the establishment of women’s and gender studies as an academic discipline. Researchers of the field repeatedly commented on the productive, if conflictive, character of this relationship. Historically, however, these closely entangled political and epistemic practices are not a new phenomenon. Rather, they can also be shown in the context of the women’s movements of various political orientations emerging and gaining public attention in many industrialised countries and in a number of countries of the global South in the late 19th century. Many of their protagonists regarded the practice of producing and circulating differentiated corpora of knowledge (e.g. on the living conditions of women from different classes, on gender-specific laws, but also regarding movements in other countries) as an important means of political struggle.

Please send proposal outlines of 1-2 pages to admin.thks@univie.ac.at by 15 December 2022, please, add “cfp: proposal” in the reference line. 

Call for Papers in English (pdf)