Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender as a Category of Knowledge

Dr. Cornelia Möser

PhD Project

The Feminist Gender Debates in France and Germany: Traveling Theories Under Translation

Möser

 

Description of the Project

 

Both traveling theories, out of American and French intellectual traditions, as well as political confrontation with hegemonies, out of debates around the so-called paradigm shift in gender studies, play important roles in the category of »gender« as a research tool. This thesis contextualizes the debates around these theories with regard to their historical and political settings, and also the theoretical traditions in which the different positions inscribe themselves. This perspective is complemented with an analysis of introductory-level gender studies books and textbooks that try to impart their understanding of what gender studies is, especially when that understanding is put in contrast to previous feminist thought. The history of feminist thinking is examined on the basis of different narratives, which this thesis exposes and interprets. In this way, feminist gender debates help us to understand a globalized mode of knowledge production and also to think of its transformations in a rather young field of research.

                                        

Particulars

 

Cornelia Möser studied cultural studies, gender studies and sociology in Berlin and Paris; she earned her PhD in gender studies and political science (2011). 2008-2011 she was an associated member of the research training group »Gender as a Category of Knowledge«. 2011 she was a substitute professor for the Centre en études genre at the University of Lausanne. Since 2012 she is a researcher for the CNRS at the CRESPPA-GTM in Paris.

   

Selected Publications

 

Feminismes en traductions. Théories voyageuses et traductions culturelles. Paris 2013.

Translating Queer Theory to France and Germany. Tickets and Boundaries for a Traveling Theory. In: Import – Export – Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion, hg. v. Sushila Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack u. Katrin Lasthofer, Wien 2012. S. 147 – 162.

The feminist Gender Debates in France and in Germany. (De)constructing feminism and the productivity of misunderstandings. In: Exchanges and Correspondance. The Construction of feminism, hg. v. Françoise Orazi u. Claudette Fillard, Newcastle 2010. S. 23 – 40.

Material Queer. Politiken sexueller Ökonomien. In: Philosophieren unter anderen. Beiträge zum Palaver der Menschheit, hg. v. Urs Lindner, Pia Paust-Lassen u. Jörg Nowak, Münster 2008. S. 160 – 175.

   

Contact

http://www.gtm.cnrs.fr/Pagesperso/MoserCornelia.htm