Gendering Universalisms in International History

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

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.

Object Details

• ISSN: 1612-6033
• Extent: Seite(n): 451-456
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 8(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Internationale Beziehungen ; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ; internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Donert, Celia ; Glencross, Janou
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2011

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1640
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST