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74 DOCTORAL PROJECTS OF THE FES FUNDED RESEARCH SCHOLARS Young Researchers Promotionsprojekte der FES-StipendiatInnen The FES is one of the eleven large organizations responsible for promoting young talent. These organizations are sponsoring the doctoral projects of young talented researchers through the funding provided by the German Foreign Offi ce and by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Research on gender and women’s issues is still a desideratum in various academic disciplines. This is corroborated by the diverse doctoral projects that the FES funded in 2008. We will present some of those projects in greater detail here. Former fellowship awardee Dr. Martin Lücke today teaches at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University, Berlin as a research associate Recommended Reading: Dr. Martin Lücke: Männlichkeit in Unordnung. Homosexualität und männliche Prostitution in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik (Reihe «Geschichte und Geschlechter» Bd. 58), Frankfurt (Main): Campus 2008 Masculinity in Disarray. Homosexuality and Male Prostitution in Imperial Germany and during the Weimar Republic. (Series: “History and Gender” Vol. 58), Frankfurt (Main): Campus 2008 Shady Business In October 2008, the dissertation of Dr. Martin Lücke was awarded the prestigious Hedwig-Hintze Prize of the Association of Historians of Germany. It had an unusual title: “A Shady Business: Male Prostitution in Germany in Imperial Germany and during the Weimar Republic”. The work of the former FES research scholar was thought to be exceptionally original and ambitious even during the period of his fellowship. The jury lauded his work as being exemplary in its handling of source material and for the methodology applied. The research was conducted at three levels: (i) the sexuality discourse of the time period, (ii) the offi cial approach or practice of the state, and (iii) the “doing gender”, which in this case was also an analysis of the variations in interaction in the homosexual scene. At the outset the work may appear to be a marginal or niche subject, but the contrary is true: a new engagement with masculinities and concepts of sexual identity is an important contribution to gender history. It throws light on social constructions in their historical contexts which were shaped by sexual male power and dominance and its ambivalent modes of operation. Between the Cult of Mothers and Heroes The research scholar, Martina Bitunjac, is currently pursuing a very different research project. Since July 2007, she has been researching the theme of “Between the Cult of Mothers and Heroes: Images of Women in Independent Croatia”. In her work, Martina Bitunjac establishes how two very different perceptions of the feminine ideal have evolved from within a traditional Catholic patriarchy – and what political and military objectives were linked to these ideals. Whereas, the ideology of the Ustascha highlighted the role of the woman as a mother, who would bear and raise as many soldiers as possible, the Communist National Liberation FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG
Movement had a more modern role model for women. The equal participation of women in the struggle was viewed as the appropriate role. It was clear that consciousness raising work among the largely uninformed and illiterate women would have to be undertaken by politically educated women comrades, for example, through word-ofmouth propaganda. In addition, to achieve this goal, leafl ets would have to, for example, be written by women for women, printed and distributed – these have been traced and collected by Martina Bitunjac, who is now studying them. She is also interviewing women of the Ustascha movement and women from the National Liberation Movement and is analyzing laws and ordinances of that period. The work is being supervised by professors in Berlin, Zagreb and Rome, where the fascist Ustascha movement was founded. Gender(doing) in the Child Day Care Centre? Currently, Lena Irmler has a FES scholarship to pursue her doctoral research in the discipline of pedagogy. Her topic “Gender(doing) in the Child Day Care Centre?” is preying on the minds of the parents of small children in particular. Almost 97 per cent of the child care workers are women. The assumption is that for children in their formative years, where they are developing their own gender roles, the “overwhelming presence of women” could be problematic. One reason for this being that child care workers – as also those raising the child, i.e. mother and father – tend to unconsciously develop and reinforce unrefl ected gender stereotypes. In her work Lena Irmler is researching non-verbal communication and interaction between the child care workers and with child raisers (parents) by means of video footage. She hopes that her research fi ndings will contribute to the new conceptualisation of training and study pro- FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG WOMEN MEN GENDER grammes for what is now termed Early Childhood Education or something similar. She hopes that her research will promote the training of awareness, which is why the study envisages, in particular, the education and further training of those who are already employed in the fi eld of child care. At the meeting of the FES sponsored doctoral students, Martina Bitunjac presents her doctoral project. 75
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