HERESSEE – The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001

ERC Starting Grant - Zsófia Lóránd

The ERC-Project HERESSEE will produce the first comprehensive and multi-disciplinary history of feminist political thought and women’s rights discourses in East Central Europe in a broad chronological perspective.

The project builds on a solid base of existing scholarship, but does more than weave the stories of individual women or fragmented national case studies in the existing scholarship into a coherent narrative. Instead, it reinterprets the story of feminism in the region in relation to state socialism and the history of state socialism through the lens of feminism. It treats the interwar pre-history of debates between socialism and feminism, as well as the post-1989 struggles to deal with the state socialist past as integral parts of the history of state socialism.

HERESSEE is conducted at the University of Vienna by PI Zsófia Lóránd, Libora Oates-Indruchová is core team member.