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Gendering Universalisms in International History
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Abstract Gendered critiques by historians and feminist international relations scholars have been animating international history for a good thirty years by complicating the supposedly binary relationships between states and societies, private and public, and local and international that traditionally struct... view more
Gendered critiques by historians and feminist international relations scholars have been animating international history for a good thirty years by complicating the supposedly binary relationships between states and societies, private and public, and local and international that traditionally structured the discipline. In this essay we would like to ask what a sensitivity to gender might add to international histories that are shifting their focus away from intergovernmental relations towards a reassessment of internationalisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through studies of transnational social movements, international organizations and norms, or practices of global governance. We are especially interested in how gender might contribute to a major emerging theme of international history today: the history of internationalism and international organizations as a struggle between competing or converging universalisms – ‘imperial and anticolonial, “Eastern” and “Western”, old and new’ – that sought to speak in the name of all humanity, rather than as the triumph of an international order imposed by the “West” on the rest.... view less
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
Geschlecht; Politik; Transnationale Geschichte; Außenpolitik; Gender Studies; Global History; Weltgeschichte; Internationale Organisationen; Internationale Beziehungen
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 451-456
Journal
Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 8 (2011) 3
Issue topic
Internationale Ordnungen und neue Universalismen im 20. Jahrhundert
ISSN
1612-6033
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed