scholarly journals Editor’s Introduction

Aspasia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. vi-viii
Author(s):  
Sharon A Kowalsky
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The State ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Virtual Conference

When Peter Hallama approached the Aspasia editorial board about publishing the proceedings of a conference he was organizing on Socialist Masculinities, we jumped at the opportunity. It seemed that Aspasia, as a journal of women’s and gender history, would be the perfect venue to showcase the innovative and important historical scholarship being conducted on masculinities in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Although the COVID-19 pandemic delayed his plans and necessitated holding a virtual conference, the results that make up the contents of this volume do not disappoint. As Hallama mentions in his Introduction to the Special Forum articles, and as Marko Dumančić highlights in his concluding Comments, the works included here reflect a deep engagement with the lived experiences of men, assessed through memoirs, diaries, photographs, newspapers, and internal party documents. These articles explore some of the many and shifting masculinities constructed throughout the region during the socialist period, showing that individuals and the state constantly engaged in their negotiation and renegotiation.

Clio on the Margins: Women's and Gender History in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Part Two)

Aspasia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enriketa Papa-Pandelejmoni ◽  
Gentiana Kera ◽  
Krassimira Daskalova ◽  
Biljana Kašić ◽  
Sandra Prlenda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender

Clio on the Margins: Women's and Gender History in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Part One)

Aspasia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krassimira Daskalova ◽  
Maria Bucur ◽  
Ivana Pantelić ◽  
Biljana Dojčinović ◽  
Gabriela Dudeková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

Aspasia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. vii-ix
Author(s):  
Sharon A. Kowalsky
Keyword(s):  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Gender History ◽  
The West ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender ◽  
East West

This volume of Aspasia is dedicated to Ann Snitow, scholar, feminist, and activist, who passed away in August 2019. Although Snitow was not trained as a scholar of our region, she devoted much of her career and her activism to fostering transnational connections and providing tools for empowering women within the former socialist bloc. After helping to found the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) in 1990, Snitow worked tirelessly to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among feminist scholars in the East and the West, supporting and encouraging an entire generation in their academic and activist pursuits. It is fitting, therefore, that Aspasia is able to honor Ann Snitow’s legacy with this volume. As a yearbook of women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, Aspasia’s mission is to make more accessible the scholarship being conducted within and about the region. By fostering transnational connections, Aspasia, like Snitow herself, encourages intellectual exchanges across boundaries, provides opportunities for academic engagement, and expands access to scholarship from regions where such access might be limited by language and other barriers.

The Birth of a Field: Women's and Gender Studies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Aspasia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krassimira Daskalova ◽  
Mihaela Miroiu ◽  
Agnieszka Graff ◽  
Tatiana Zhurzhenko ◽  
Marina Blagojevic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Women's And Gender Studies ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S And Gender Studies

Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Bennett ◽  
Ruth Karras
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Medieval Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Emerging Topics

This essay sets out the history and historiography of medieval women and gender as it stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. It begins with a long view, tracing how approaches to medieval women have developed and changed from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. It then focuses on how feminist scholarship on the subject has developed since the 1970s. The essay addresses the importance of both women’s history and gender history; discusses topics explored and consensus conclusions; describes major debates in the field; and signals emerging topics and areas hitherto neglected. A summation of the state of the field, it both surveys what has been done to date and looks to what might be done in the future.

Ruling Relations: Rethinking State and Gender in South African History

1992 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linzi Manicom
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Life ◽  
African State ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Although South African women's history has been growing in volume and sophistication over the past decade, the impact of gender analysis has yet to be felt in mainstream or radical historiography. One reason for this neglect is the way in which the categories of both ‘gender’ and ‘women’ have been conceived – with ‘women’ assumed to have a stable referent and ‘gender’ treated as synonymous with women. Those areas of social life where women are not immediately present have thus remained unreconstructed by the theoretical implications of gender. This is particularly the case with the history of ‘the state’.The article identifies and looks critically at the major paradigms of South African women's and gender history in terms of how the relationship between ‘the state’ and ‘women’ is implicitly or explicitly represented. It argues that the understanding of the category ‘women’ as socially and historically constructed (as evident in more recently published gender history) provides a way of moving beyond the more static or abstractly posed state-versus-women relationship. This requires too that ‘the South African state’ be understood not as unitary or coherent but as institutionally diverse with different objectives being taken up and produced as policy and practice. The project then becomes one of understanding South African state formation as a gendered and gendering process, of exploring the different institutional sites and ruling discourses in which gender identities and categories are constructed.

The Birth of a Field: Women's and Gender Studies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Part II

Aspasia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorana Mlinarević ◽  
Lamija Kosović ◽  
Kornelia Slavova ◽  
Hana Hašková ◽  
Raili Põldsaar Marling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Women's And Gender Studies ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S And Gender Studies

scholarly journals Public perspectives and media reporting of wolf reintroduction in Colorado

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Niemiec ◽  
Richard E.W. Berl ◽  
Mireille Gonzalez ◽  
Tara Teel ◽  
Cassiopeia Camara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Options ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gray Wolves ◽  
The Media ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many

In the state of Colorado, a citizen ballot initiative to reintroduce gray wolves (Canis Lupus) is eliciting polarization and conflict among multiple stakeholder and interest groups. Given this complex social landscape, we examined the social context surrounding wolf reintroduction in Colorado as of 2019. We used an online survey of 734 Coloradans representative in terms of age and gender, and we sampled from different regions across the state, to examine public beliefs and attitudes related to wolf reintroduction and various wolf management options. We also conducted a content analysis of media coverage on potential wolf reintroduction in 10 major daily Colorado newspapers from January 2019, when the signature-gathering effort for the wolf reintroduction initiative began, through the end of January 2020, when the initiative was officially added to the ballot. Our findings suggest a high degree of social tolerance or desire for wolf reintroduction in Colorado across geographies, stakeholder groups, and demographics. However, we also find that a portion of the public believes that wolves would negatively impact their livelihoods, primarily because of concerns over the safety of people and pets, loss of hunting opportunities, and potential wolf predation on livestock. These concerns—particularly those related to livestock losses—are strongly reflected in the media. We find that media coverage has focused only on a few of the many perceived positive and negative impacts of wolf reintroduction identified among the public. Our findings highlight the need to account for this diversity of perspectives in future decisions and to conduct public outreach regarding likely impacts of wolf reintroduction.

The State of Women's and Gender History in Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Andrea. Pető ◽  
Judith. Szapor
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender History ◽  
And Gender
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