How feminist activists challenged classism in movement and at university
Book launch with Julia Roßhart and following discussion
Feminist activists of the 80s and 90s in the BRD showed that class distinctions influence the daily routine in the women’s and lesbian’s movement. Others looked into the daily routine at university and challenged the educated middle-class principles the. They were actively working against classism in their own political and academic settings, talking about class origin, discrimination, language, money – and about their own strengths. They established a bank account for redistribution. Chav-lesbians founded their own groups, working class daughters connected at the universities. They wrote texts: searching and questioning, angry and offensive, empowering and inspiring.
Julia Roßhart searched for traces of the different ways of intervening into the dealings with class distinctions within the womens’s and lesbian’s movement in the BRD in her book. We are inviting you to search these traces together with her in an eased setting away from lectures and examination stress. Let’s discuss about the role of class origin within universities together! Current like they were before, the ideas and activities from that time can inspire queer_feminist_left-wing communities, theories and politics from nowadays.
Julia Roßhart was born 1981 and grew up in a provincial environment with a lot of craftsmen. She studied sociology and did her PhD in gender studies with the present book. Nowadays she is working as a freelance lecturer, publicist and consultant for scholarly writing. She is writing, living and gardening in Berlin. http://www.juliarosshart.de
Julia Roßhart: Klassenunterschiede im feministischen Bewegungsalltag. Anti-klassistische Interventionen in der Frauen- und Lesbenbewegung der 80er und 90er Jahre in der BRD, 2016, Berlin: w_orten und meer
The event is an initiative of the research group gender and politics at the IPW. After the book launch and discussion there will be time to have some snacks and drinks and getting to know other interested students and teachers in a realxed atmosphere.
When? Thursday, 15.3.2018, 18.30 pm
Where? Konferenzraum (A 222, NIG 2. Stock), Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
The room is passable with wheelchairs.