The end of reason in history? Historians, historiography, and feminist movement in Germany (1970s-1980s)

该项目调查了20世纪70年代和80年代德意志联邦共和国妇女和性别历史的形成和发展。虽然历史作为一种政治论点和历史研究的概念在那个时期关于性别关系的辩论中发挥了重要作用，但这个话题还没有成为历史调查的主题。性别作为一个有意义的历史分析范畴，是在将专业历史学家及其学术环境与女性主义的政治社会运动联系起来的过程中被发现的。一个由学者、学生和女权主义者组成的异质而脆弱的联盟开始沿着性别关系的路线讨论历史知识和真理的问题，从而挑战学术界本身的性别关系秩序。他们不仅提出了方法论和认识论的问题，而且在制度和社会层面上批判和颠覆了专业的常规做法。这项研究的重点是构成新知识领域的复杂谈判过程和实践，以及它为学术信誉所做的努力。受最近基于实践理论的史学和科学史方法的启发，本书分析了这些实践如何影响历史研究中的知识生产，以及女权主义研究议程的合法性和接受度。一方面，本研究考察了参与学者的交流实践。这需要研究学术组织内部的网络和交流渠道，以及日益增长的女权主义基础设施及其出版商、特殊档案和教育项目。特别关注与美国历史学家的跨国关系，这对德国的辩论和实践产生了至关重要的影响。另一方面，该项目审查妇女和性别历史学者为提高学术和政治信誉而采用的策略，从而侧重于学术实践的表演和美学方面。

This project investigates the formation and development of women and gender history in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Although history as a political argument and concepts of historical research played an important role in debates about gender relations during that period, the topic has not yet been the subject of historical investigation. Gender as a meaningful category of historical analysis was discovered in a process that connected professional historians and their academic environment and the political and social movement of feminism as well. A heterogeneous and fragile coalition of scholars, students, and feminist activists started to discuss questions of historical knowledge and truth along the lines of gender relations, thereby challenging the order of gender relations in academia itself. They did not only raise methodological and epistemic questions, but also criticized and subverted the professions common practices on an institutional and social level. The study focusses on the complex negotiation processes and practices constituting the new field of knowledge and on its struggle for academic credibility. Inspired by recent approaches in historiography and history of science based on theories of practice, it analyzes how these practices affected the production of knowledge in historical research as well as the legitimacy and acceptance of a feminist research agenda. On the one hand the study examines the communication practices of participating scholars. This entails research on networks and channels of communication both within academic organisations and the growing feminist infrastructure with its publishers, special archives and educational projects. Special attention is paid to transnational relations with historians from the United States, which had a crucial impact on German debates and practices. On the other hand, the project examines the strategies applied by scholars of women and gender history to enhance both academic and political credibility, thus focussing on performative and aesthetic dimensions of academic practices.