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The Historicity of Feminist Concepts: Women‘s Politica in Galicia around 1900

Ringvorlesung 2026: Anti/Feminism & Nationalism

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Abstract

In historical studies, the Habsburg crownland of Galicia often is regarded as an example for ethnicization or nationalization of a multicultural region. A first glance at women’s politics seems to confirm this impression. Women’s politics that transcended borders of language and ethnicity were inconceivable; the rivalry between nationalism and feminism was perceived as insurmountable.

In the lecture, I will use examples of Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish women’s politics to explore positions, practices and conflicts that arose from the competition between nationalism and feminism. How can broad concepts such as nationalism and feminism be historicized? What does a feminist concept contribute to the analysis of historical conditions?

Bio

Dietlind Hüchtker holds the chair for Historical Transregional Studies at the Faculty Center of Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna. She focuses on Gender History, the history of space/time, the history of Europe in a transnational perspective. Her last publications include History as Performance: Political Movements in Galicia around 1900, (= Routledge Studies in Cultural History), Routledge: New York 2021; together with Johanna Gehmacher, she edited the special issue: Frauenbewegungen und Wissensformationen/Women’s Movements and Knowledge Formations (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36/2, 2025) and together with Claudia Kraft the special issue Ukraïne (L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 35/1, 2024).