Erinnerungen an die Möglichkeit einer Historiografie lesbischer Frauen und die queere Notwendigkeit ihres Verlusts

Autor(en)
Hanna Hacker
Abstrakt

Against the backdrop of re-reading and re-writing some of their own research, the author queries premises of writing the history of a figuration which is or was called ‘lesbian women’. The emphasis lies on studies about German-speaking countries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What can “lesbian history” mean at all nowadays, the very term “lesbian” seeming thoroughly ‘queered’ and re-written in a trans*feminist frame? Referring to Michelle Perrot’s classic question “Is writing women’s history possible?” and to Michel Foucault’s deliberations on an archeology of knowledge, the paper reflects upon transformations of knowledge production concerning ‘lesbian history’ since the 1970s. The respective ‘progress’ in research and theory turns out to be as complex as contradictory. In the beginnings of lesbianfeminist historiography in German contexts, de-essentialising femininity was much more present than one might presuppose; later on, historical research evolved less clearly towards intersectional, postcolonial or anti-ableist paradigms than could be expected. Still, even these narratives on ‘our history’ have to be deconstructed extensively. Does this mean that it is about time to bring ‘lesbianhistoriography’ to a close altogether?

Organisation(en)
Institut für Soziologie, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Journal
L'Homme: Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft
Band
28
Seiten
71-88
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
1016-362X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14220/lhom.2017.28.1.71
Publikationsdatum
2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
504014 Gender Studies, 601008 Geschichtswissenschaft
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Cultural Studies, Gender studies, History
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/eb40b720-cb1c-49d4-8290-67f77a7bd8a5