Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence
This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with 1968 and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender.
The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence, the gender of aggression and peaceability, and the contradictions of counterviolence; but also womens artistic and creative interventions, which have rarely been considered. Together the chapters provide and provoke a wide-ranging rethink of how we read not only 1968 but more generally the relationship between gender, political violence, art and emancipation.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and womens studies.
Sarah Colvin is the Schrder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. Her recent publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009); Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009); and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015).
Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include feminist theory, European womens movements, and the history of political protest, extremism, and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of Sisters in Arms? Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).
Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Series Editor: Laura J. Shepherd
UNSW Australia
This series aims to publish books that work with, and through, feminist insights on global politics, and illuminate the ways in which gender functions not just as a marker of identity but also as a constitutive logic in global political practices. The series welcomes scholarship on any aspect of global political practices, broadly conceived, that pays attention to the ways in which gender is central to, (re)produced in, and is productive of, such practices.
There is growing recognition both within the academy and in global political institutions that gender matters in and to the practices of global politics. From the governance of peace and security, to the provision of funds for development initiatives, via transnational advocacy networks linked through strategic engagement with new forms of media, these processes have a gendered dimension that is made visible through empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated feminist work.
Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis
Missing in Action?
Edited by Christine Hudson, Malin Rnnblom and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Marriage Trafficking
Women in Forced Wedlock
Kaye Quek
Human Capital in Gender and Development
Sydney Calkin
Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency
Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
Edited by Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher
Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence
Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
Edited by Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher
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Barbara Becker-Cantarino retired in July 2013 from her position as Research Professor in the Humanities at Ohio State University. Her research interests include Early Modern German Culture and Literature, Womens History and Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Recent publications include The Eighteenth Century. Enlightenment and Sentimentality (2005), Pietism and Womens Autobiography (2005), Meine Liebe zu Bchern. Sophie von La Roche als professionelle Schriftstellerin (2008), Genderforschung und Germanistik. Perspektiven von der Frhen Neuzeit zur Moderne (2010), and Migration and Religion. Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany (2012). Her current book project Bettina von Arnim. Leben Werk Wirkung will be published in 2019.
Julian Bourg is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and his BA from Brown University. His research focuses on modern European intellectual history and the history of terrorism. Bourgs first book, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007; rev. ed. 2017), won the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch book prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. He has published articles on 1968 as event and representation, French Maoism, French films on 1968, and on the intellectual and cultural history of Postwar France.
Mererid Puw Davies is Senior Lecturer in German at UCL, London. She has published widely on modern German culture, literature, and film. Mererids work includes the monograph Writing and the West German Protest Movements: The Textual Revolution (2016) and other essays on the culture of the West German protest movements. She is also the author of two volumes of poetry in Welsh, and her poems have been published in several anthologies, including the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. Her poetry has been translated and published in various languages, such as Czech and Galician, and she has read her poetry internationally, for example at the Leipzig Book Fair and the Vilenica International Literary Festical in Slovenia. Currently, Mererid is working on German writing about the Vietnam War.
