Rewriting Academia

In broad historical and European contextualization, 25 experts from Continental Europe give an overview of the development of the Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies in their countries. A pioneering achievement with fundamental insights both for English Studies and various further disciplines.

From a historical perspective, the full academic establishment of Women's and Gender Studies is a radical and far-reaching innovation. Decisive impulses have come from the United States, the European unification and globalization. European Women's and Gender Studies are therefore intimately linked to the English language and Anglophone cultures, as the near untranslatability of «gender» shows. In this volume 25 experts present surveys for their countries with a historical and European contextualization and offer fundamental insights not only for English Studies but also various other disciplines.

Autorentext

Renate Haas is Professor of English (University of Kiel). She has published widely, one important focus being the European history of English Studies.

Klappentext

From a historical perspective, the full academic establishment of Women s and Gender Studies is a radical and far-reaching innovation. Decisive impulses have come from the United States, the European unification and globalization. European Women s and Gender Studies are therefore intimately linked to the English language and Anglophone cultures, as the near untranslatability of «gender» shows. In this volume 25 experts present surveys for their countries with a historical and European contextualization and offer fundamental insights not only for English Studies but also various other disciplines.

Zusammenfassung
«By examining critically the specific contexts and the historical, political and cultural circumstances of their countries, the authors of each survey have offered a nuanced analysis that brings out the diversity and the challenges, but also the unfaltering dedication of past and present women academics in the process of developing and institutionalizing an important academic field.»
(Anca-Luminita Iancu, American, British and Canadian Studies Vol. 29/2017)

«Overall this collection of articles fulfils its goal of unveiling the work of scholars to promote an undervalued field of studies. [...] It is [...] a great inspiration for Women and Gender Studies scholars but also for researchers of other topics with a similar problem such as Post Colonial Studies.»
(Shirley Doulière, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXIII-1 | 2018)

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Inhalt
Contents: Renate Haas: Basic Concept and Realization Ana Gabriela Macedo/Margarida Esteves Pereira: Women's and Gender Studies in Portugal: An Overview from an Anglicist Perspective Esther Álvarez López/Isabel Carrera Suárez/Carla Rodríguez González: Women's Studies and English Studies in Spain: From Democracy to Transnationalism Vita Fortunati: Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies in Italy: The Bologna Case as an Emblematic Example Florence Binard: Beyond Invisibility and Bias: English Women's and Gender Studies in France Marysa Demoor: Women's Studies in Belgium: Through the Gate of English Literature Renate Haas: Germany: Two Steps Forward and One Back, or Slow Snowball Effect? Susanne Hamscha: Austria: The Long and Winding Road towards the Institutionalization of Women's and Gender Studies Vra Eliáová/Simona Fojtová/Martina Horáková: Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: An Uncertain Discipline Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan : Croatia: The Social Symbolic in a Transitional Society and Women's Studies Mia Liinason: A Semi-Outsider's Point of View: The Institutionalization of Gender Research in Sweden Elina Valovirta/Joel Kuortti: Moderate Finnish Feminism: From a Struggle for Equality in the Welfare State to Diverse and Established Gender Studies Marija Aurin Pavilionien: Lithuania: Pioneering Women's and Gender Studies in the Post-Soviet Baltic Republics Aleksandra Izgarjan/Dubravka Djuri: The Role of Anglicist Women in the Development of Gender Studies in Serbia: From NGO to Academia Ana-Karina Schneider/Corina Selejan: Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies in Romania: Between Persistence and Resistance Milena Katsarska: The Other Frontier: Anglicist Gender Studies in Bulgaria Seda Gasparian/Gayane Muradian: Armenia: Ancient Traditions, Upheavals, and the Beginnings of Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies Renate Haas: Europe and Beyond.