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Women's Movements - "Women in Motion". Digital Archive and Historiography. Habsburg Monarchy / Austria 1848 - 1938.
| “Women’s Movements – „Women in Motion”. Digital Archive and Historiography. Habsburg Monarchy/Austria 1848–1938” is a joint endeavor of Ariadne, the women’s and gender documentation center at the Austrian National Library (project leader and manager Helga Hofmann-Weinberger, M.A.), and the Department of Contemporary History of Vienna University (cooperation partner associate professor Johanna Gehmacher). Starting in 2006 the interdisciplinary project is dedicated to the historiographical and documentary-based analysis of women’s movements in the period 1848–1938 and is composed of two complementary parts.
The historiographical part will provide a conspectus and an analysis of research perspectives on the history of women’s movements of both the Habsburg Monarchy and the inter-war period in Austria. The documentary part of the project is an enhancement of the digital archive “Frauen in Bewegung. Diskurse und Dokumente der österreichischen historischen Frauenbewegung 1848–1918” („Women in Motion. Discourses and Documents Relating to the Austrian Historical Women’s Movement 1848–1918” (http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/indesx.htm)) created by Ariadne. The primary goal of the collaboration is the continuation, enlargement and further development of the already existing digital archive on the history of women’s movements by covering the period 1918–1938.
In our presentation we would like to show the newly created web portal as well as talk about the results of the interlinkage of documentation science-based analysis and historiographical conceptualisation and contextualisation. Possible question to be treated are: In which ways do historiographical reflections on the term women’s movement influence topical, conceptual and formal criteria of digital filing and documentation, as well as in which ways may digitized documents and pieces of information influence historiography of women’s movements? How can the intertwinement of procedures of both documentation science and historiography lead to the set up of content standards for the documentation? What possibilities are there for attractive forms of presentation of scientific results on the history of women’s movements in the web?
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