Rewriting Academia: The Development of the Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies of Continental Europe

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Renate Haas
Peter Lang, 2015 - Education - 442 pages
Introduction -- Basic concept and realization / Renate Haas -- National surveys -- Southern Europe -- Women's and gender studies in Portugal : an overview from an anglicist perspective / Ana Gabriela Vilela Pereira Macedo, Margarida Pereira -- Women's studies and English studies in Spain : from democracy to transnationalism / Esther Álvarez López, Isabel Carrera Suárez. Carla Rodríguez González -- Anglicist women's and gender studies in Italy : the Bologna case as an emblematic example / Vita Fortunati -- Western and Central Europe -- Beyond invisibility and bias : English women's and gender studies in France / Florence Binard -- Women's studies in Belgium : through the gate of English literature / Marysa Demoor -- Germany : two steps forward and one back, or slow snowball effect? / Renate Haas -- Austria : the long and winding road towards the institutionalization of women's and gender studies / Susanne Hamscha -- Anglicist women's and gender studies in the Czech Republic : an uncertain discipline / Vera Eliácová' Simona Fojtová, Martina Horáková -- Croatia : the social symbolic in a transitional society and women's studies / Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan -- Northern Europe -- A semi-outsider's point of view : the institutionalization of gender research in Sweden / Mia Liinason -- Moderate finnish feminism : from a struggle for equality in the welfare state to diverse and established gender studies / Joel Kuortti, Elina Valovirta -- Lithuania : pioneering women's and gender studies in the post-soviet Baltic republics / Marija Ausrine Pavilioniene -- South-Eastern and Eastern Europe -- The role of anglicist women in the development of gender studies in Serbia : from NGO to academia / Aleksandra Izgarjan, Dubravka Djuric -- Anglicist women's and gender studies in Romania : between persistence and resistance / Ana-Karina Schneider with Corina Selejan -- The other frontier : anglicist gender studies in Bulgaria / Milena Katsarska -- Armenia : ancient traditions, upheavals, and the beginnings of anglicist women's and gender studies / Seda Gasparian, Gayane Muradian -- Conclusion -- Europe and beyond / Renate Haas -- Contributors -- Index

About the author (2015)

Renate Haas is Professor of English (University of Kiel). She has published widely, one important focus being the European history of English Studies.