THE EXILE OF WOMEN

On the occasion of 20 years of the women's working group
of the Austrian Society for Exile Research

THE EXILE OF WOMEN
Historical perspective and the present

Recent trends in exile research show a paradigm shift from focussing exclusively on historical exile during the era of National Socialism and Austrofascism to expanding the subject of research to include current refugee and migration movements. Are there comparable aspects between the exile of women in the period 1933-45 and the asylum of women today, what are the similarities, what are the differences? Is the contribution to the memory of persecution constitutive for our attitude towards today's refugee movements and does our own refugee experience, be it at the time of the Shoah or in the years after 1945, lead to practised solidarity with those persecuted today? The anthology The Exile of Women documents lectures by the working group of the same name in which questions of historical continuities were taken up and discussed. The working group is organised by the FrauenAG of the Austrian Society for Exile Research together with the project biografiA - Dokumentationsstelle Frauenforschung (IWK).

Contributions:

Ilse Korotin, historian of science, head of the Documentation Centre for Women's Studies at the Institute for Science and Art, Vienna
Helene Belndorfer, historian
Brigitte Bischof, university lecturer, publicist
Maynat Kurbanova, Journalist
Brigitte Rath, historian, Vienna

Moderation

Ilse Korotin, historian of science, head of the documentation centre for women's studies at the Institute for Science and Art, Vienna

In co-operation with the frauenAG of the Austrian Society for Exile Research

Ilse Korotin, Ursula Stern (Eds.)
THE EXILE OF WOMEN
Historical perspective and the present
Praesens Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7069-1068-2, 423 p