Race, Gender, Body

What is the relationship between race, gender and capitalism? The role of motherhood in racial capitalism and the scientification of the “Ghetto economy” serve as two intersecting lenses in this project that provide new perspectives on the history of capitalism since the late 1960s. (Nadja Klopprogge)

The medical knowledge and techniques necessary to perform gender affirmative care were produced during the long 19^th century in different contexts and were not intended to serve for this purpose. This study searches for actors who reinterpreted this body of knowledge and advanced it to today’s standards. It also traces how the bodies of transgender* people became in this process an arena for negotiating the line between concepts of heterosexual feminity and masculinity as well as their subversions. (Katharina Seibert)

The project focuses on Western European magazines that have emerged from the Second Wave feminist movements since the 1970s. Information on the various magazines will be collected in a database. A website with expert contributions will combine national overviews with transnational thematic perspectives. (Kassandra Hammel & Sonja Levsen)

This project deals with the Intimate Histories of African Americans and Germany between 1933 and 1990. Its point of departure are interpersonal constellations that crossed not only the Atlantic but the color line, and at times the fault lines of the Cold War. (Nadja Klopprogge)

This AHRC Curiosity Award project in collaboration with Prof. Constance Bantman (PI; USurrey) and Prof. Richard Cleminson (Co-I; ULeeds) examines the interplay between love and politics through the lens of global anarchist discourse and praxis in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As Co-I, my subproject investigates Japanese anarcho-communist notions of association and cooperation as foundation for developing radical understandings of decentered social organization without hierarchy and (state) authority. Along a series of anarchist couples, it analyzes the place of sexuality, gender and reproduction in anarchist debates about science and nature in imperial Japan (Robert Kramm).

This book project (Habilitation) retraces the history of the meaning, making, and presentation of ‘Africana’ across the Atlantic from the late 19^th to the early 21^st century. (Nadja Klopprogge)

This research project examines the role of British and West German women's movements in negotiating new concepts of sexuality, the body and health between 1968 and 1989. By focusing on the mechanisms of knowledge production and transformation, the project breaks with the master narrative of the 'sexual revolution' and instead highlights the different interpretative struggles around sexuality and the body within the women's movements. (Kassandra Hammel)