Abstract (may include machine translation)
In November 2003 fourteen women academics, all members of the Hungarian Historical Association (HHA), * signed the founding charter for a section of Women’s and Gender History, only to be voted down by the general assembly of the Association. A year and a half later the new section was finally incorporated, with the understanding that it should not expect any financial or organizational support from the HHA.47 This episode is characteristic of the state of women’s and gender history in Hungary today: it demonstrates the infrastructural vacuum and institutional resistance against which a few committed practitioners of women’s and gender history have been struggling to establish a foothold.48 To attribute this lamentable situation to patriarchal power structures in academia would not do justice to the complex origins and motives of this resistance; here we can highlight only a few of them.
Translated title of the contribution | Teaching Gender Studies in Hungary |
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Original language | English |
Place of Publication | Budapest |
Publisher | Ifjúsági, Családügyi, Szociális és Esélyegyenlőségi Minisztérium (ICSSZEM) |
Number of pages | 273 |
ISBN (Print) | 9632294671 |
State | Published - 2006 |