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Women Experts and Feminist Knowledge Production in East Central Europe, 1945-1989
Fri, November 21, 3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST), -Session Submission Type: Panel
Brief Description
This panel explores the expertise and biographical trajectories of women experts in state socialist Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. We focus on experts in medicine and social sciences who shaped knowledge and discourses on women and gender. We also address the relationship between expertise and activism and advocacy, and transnational knowledge circulation. By adopting a biographical perspective, we seek to highlight the role of women experts, some of whom are now largely forgotten, as well as to discuss the relationship between biographies and expertise. The panel aims to look at expertise as a potential site for formulating feminist discourses. Can we call these experts ‘feminists’?
Annina Gagyiova’s paper addresses the role of Hungarian pediatrician Emmi Pikler in shaping expertise on institutional childcare and its relevance for working mothers. Denisa Nešťáková discusses the work and activity of Slovak academic and leader of the women’s movement Lila Hojčová. Natalia Jarska’s paper explores the impact of Western feminist sociology on Polish expertise on women’s work in the early 1960s, focusing on Viola Klein and Magdalena Sokołowska. Eszter Varsa examines the intersection of gender and race in the life and work of Mária László in 1950s Hungary.
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Reconciling Women’s (Re-)productive Roles: Pediatrics, Psychology and Early Childcare in Hungary, 1950s-1960s - Annina Gagyiova, Inst of History CAS (Czech Republic)
Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Expert Knowledge by Roma: Mária László on the Employment of Romani Men and Women in 1950s Hungary - Eszter Varsa, Central European U (Austria)
Transnational Feminist Scholarship? Viola Klein, Magdalena Sokołowska and the Sociology of Women's Work (1950s-1960s) - Natalia Jarska, Inst of History PAS (Poland)