Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective
Title | Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut |
Editor | Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut |
Book Title | The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe |
Pagination | 7–30 |
Publisher | Campus |
City | Frankfurt am Main |
Abstract | This introdcution of the edited volume "The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe" explores the booming research on memory and history, which is characterized, on the one hand, by a focus on public commemoration in the political space of the nation and, on the other, by the neglect of the gender dimension. These two observations are the starting point of the introdcution which presents case studies from several European countries: Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway and Turkey. It examines the role of gender in memory cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the ways in which they represented women. The volume started from the following questions: How can the category of gender be integrated into debates on memo1y culture? What function does the remembrance of historical events play in the political participation of women? How can we shape a culture of memo1y that also incmporates women's experiences? |
URL | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo5891365.html |
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