Project Details
Projekt
GRK 563: Public Spheres and Gender Relations. Dimensions of Experience
Subject Area
Social Sciences
Term
from 1999 to 2008
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272891
In modern society, the split into public and private is constitutive for gender relations and the construction of gender differences. This research program is dedicated to developing an innovative and pluralistic concept of public spheres.For both women and men, 'agency' in its diverse meanings is determined by various constructions of 'public' and 'private'. Proceeding from this starting point, the participants at this research program examine the constructions of public spheres, public roles, and institutional power. The research is guided by questions of access, participation, and exclusion in relation to power structures, as well as how these mechanisms are countered by anti-hegemonic discourses. Thus, the category of experience is theorized as a basis for critique and a catalyst of change throughout history.The projects from the diverse disciplines contributing to the research program cover three historical epochs: antiquity as the philosophical foundation and impulse for European modernity';' the Renaissance as the age of transformation of traditional societies on the verge of modernity';' and modernity itself, with a focus on the19th century and the present. The interdisciplinary dialogue on different concepts of 'public' and 'private' is based on historicization and contextualization through intercultural and international comparison.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Co-Applicant Institution
Universität Kassel
Spokespersons
Professorin Dr. Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde; Professorin Dr. Barbara Friebertshäuser
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Ursula Apitzsch; Professorin Dr. Gertrud M. Backes; Professorin Dr. Renate Dürr; Professorin Dr. Christel Eckart; Professorin Dr. Ute Gerhard; Professorin Dr. Katharina Liebsch; Professorin Dr. Susanne Opfermann; Professorin Dr. Brita Rang; Professorin Dr. Uta Ruppert; Professorin Dr. Ute Sacksofsky
