Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1014: Gender as a Category of Knowledge
Subject Area
History
Social Sciences
Linguistics
Social Sciences
Linguistics
Term
from 2005 to 2013
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 372766
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that for several decades has made an extraordinary contribution to the analysis of discipline-specific conceptions of gender. The Research Training Group seeks to take up this interdisciplinary approach in order to explore characteristic formations of gender as a category of knowledge within each discipline, as well as to examine comparatively the differences and commonalities among the disciplines and their respective usage of this category of knowledge. The Research Training Group will take as a starting point the increasingly discernible areas of overlap between the theory/history of science on the one hand and gender studies on the other. Firstly, gender as a category of knowledge aims at bringing the critical potential of gender studies to bear upon each separate discipline s approach to their epistemological basis of knowledge. Secondly, the transdisciplinary agenda of the Research Training Group intends to provide a solid methodological foundation for gender studies.
The main focus of the Research Training Group is on the implicit and explicit role gender plays within the structuring of scientific knowledge. The Research Training Group will consist of those disciplines that on the one hand encompass gender studies and on the other hand demonstrate skills specific to the field of history/sociology of science. These disciplines are cultural studies (including German, English/American Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Art History), History (incl. History of Science), History of Medicine, History of Religion, Social Sciences, Pedagogy, and Law.
The large field of gender studies will be pragmatically limited to two areas that seem most appropriate to the integration of the respective disciplines as well as assemble and focus these interests around a thematic field. The first area focuses on the mechanisms of integration, inclusion and exclusion, as well as inscription of gendered categories into the production of knowledge, scientific terminology, and the order of knowledge of the respective disciplines. The Research Training Group will accomplish this so by using the theoretical perspectives and methods of gender studies. The second area will examine in what way the materiality and corporeality of each discipline s objects of knowledge are coded in gendered terms. This question is of particular relevance for all disciplines involved in the Research Training Group.
The main focus of the Research Training Group is on the implicit and explicit role gender plays within the structuring of scientific knowledge. The Research Training Group will consist of those disciplines that on the one hand encompass gender studies and on the other hand demonstrate skills specific to the field of history/sociology of science. These disciplines are cultural studies (including German, English/American Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Art History), History (incl. History of Science), History of Medicine, History of Religion, Social Sciences, Pedagogy, and Law.
The large field of gender studies will be pragmatically limited to two areas that seem most appropriate to the integration of the respective disciplines as well as assemble and focus these interests around a thematic field. The first area focuses on the mechanisms of integration, inclusion and exclusion, as well as inscription of gendered categories into the production of knowledge, scientific terminology, and the order of knowledge of the respective disciplines. The Research Training Group will accomplish this so by using the theoretical perspectives and methods of gender studies. The second area will examine in what way the materiality and corporeality of each discipline s objects of knowledge are coded in gendered terms. This question is of particular relevance for all disciplines involved in the Research Training Group.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Ulrike Auga; Professorin Dr. Susanne Baer; Professorin Dr. Beate Binder; Professorin Dr. Christina von Braun; Professor Dr. Volker Hess; Professorin Dr. Lann Hornscheidt; Professorin Dr. Eveline Kilian; Professorin Dr. Stefanie von Schnurbein; Professorin Dr. Inge Stephan
Spokesperson
Professorin Dr. Claudia Bruns, since 7/2012
