Eingreifende Denkerinnen

The question of who is an intellectual is a contested one. Studies on the history of intellectuals have one thing in common however: they exclude women. This volume provides a forum for women who have intervened as producers of culture, have made public statements within the political arena and in so doing have taken on the mandate of the intellectual. What provoked their interventions? How did they intervene? Did they orientate themselves on male role-models? Or did they establish their own forms of interference? By examining the interventionist strategies of female intellectuals within a constellation-analysis framework, the studies contained in this volume reveal the manifold facets of the role repertoire and the weapons of criticism as deployed by 14 "intervening female thinkers" such as Käthe Kollwitz, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Yoko Ono, Judith Butler und Naomi Klein.

ist Professorin für Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Bielefeld und assoziiertes Mitglied des Centre de Sociologie Européenne (CSE/EHESS-Paris).