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What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society. Several publications have addressed these challenges as well as potential responses on a theoretical level. This coedited volume opts for a different strategy and presents accessible case studies that demonstrate what humanities scholars contribute to concrete and pressing social debates about topics including adoption, dementia, hacking, and conservation. These “engaged” forms of humanities research reveal the continued importance of thinking and rethinking the nature of art, culture, and public life.

Humanities, cultural studies, media studies, cultural history, (art) history, gender studies

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What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society. Several publications have addressed these challenges as well as potential responses on a theoretical level. This coedited volume opts for a different strategy and presents accessible case studies that demonstrate what humanities scholars contribute to concrete and pressing social debates about topics including adoption, dementia, hacking, and conservation. These “engaged” forms of humanities research reveal the continued importance of thinking and rethinking the nature of art, culture, and public life.

Humanities --- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-). --- Humanities, cultural studies, media studies, cultural history, (art) history, gender studies. --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education

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This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to 'Enlightenment' enquiry.

History --- science; knowledge; home; domestic labour; material culture; cultural history; gender; collecting; natural history; astronomy --- Science --- Georgian Era (1714-1837) --- Great Britain.

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Die klassische feministische Geschichtsschreibung hat zugunsten bekannter Gruppen, Personen, Texte und Ereignisse den Blick für die Differenziertheit der Akteur_innen verloren. Es gab jedoch nie den einen Feminismus; vielmehr konnten sich feministische Bewegungen und Debatten gerade erst durch ihre inhärenten Konflikte immer wieder neu artikulieren und dadurch wirkmächtig werden. Trotz der Vielzahl an Publikationen gelingt es nur wenigen Überblickswerken, sich von einer überkommenen Mainstream-Erzählung zu lösen. Dieser Band reaktualisiert daher die Debatten um die Geschichte und die Bedeutung des Feminismus jenseits von Klischees, historischen Reduktionismen oder unkritischer Affirmation. »Neue Perspektiven eröffnen neue Diskussion!« Wir Frauen, 4 (2014) »Eine vielfältige, informative und mutige Publikation. Sie versucht nicht die Widersprüche in feministischen Diskursen und Bewegungen zu glätten und sich einer dogmatischen Darstellung von Feminismus als einheitliche und bruchlose Fortschrittsgeschichte anzuschließen. Vielmehr akzentuiert sie diese Widersprüche, nimmt eine intersektionale Perspektive ein und verleiht den feministischen Diskursen dadurch mehr Authentizität. « Anja Müller, www.socialnet.de, 22.02.2015 »Das Buch ist lesenswert für alle, die an der Geschichte des Feminismus interessiert sind und Lust haben, die Vergangenheit mit neuen Facetten zu entdecken.« Newsletter Gleichberechtigung und Vernetzung e.V., 7 (2014) Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 5 (2014) www.literaturkritik.de, 7 (2014), Rolf Löchel Stichwort, 38 (2014), Stephanie Arzberger analyse & kritik, 14.10.2014, Anna Stiede Ariadne, 66 (2014), Heike Dreier Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 24.09.2015, Matthias Lemke Werkstatt Geschichte, 70 (2015), Katharina Brechensbauer

Feminism --- Women --- History. --- Historiography. --- Feminismus; Geschichte; Rasse; Klasse; Gender; Geschlecht; Kulturgeschichte; Geschlechtergeschichte; Gender Studies; Soziale Bewegungen; Geschichtswissenschaft; Cultural History; Gender History; Social Movements; History --- Cultural History. --- Gender History. --- Gender Studies. --- Social Movements.

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The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late 19th century. Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914) was one of the foremost militants for women's political rights in France from the mid-1870s. She lived in Algeria from 1888 to 1892, where she investigated the customs and traditions that defined the condition of women. She witnessed both the exploitation of women and that of the colonized people; in doing so, she drew a picture of colonial Algerian society. While women were mistreated by men (sale of prepubescent girls into marriage, forced marriage, repudiation permitted only to men, polygamy), Arab men were mistreated by the colonial administration and excluded from the government of Algeria. She denounced the contradictions and hypocrisy of French justice, which often enforced, for their own interest, the "anomalies" of Muslim law in contradiction with French law. The last chapter of the book comprises of several striking anecdotes that illustrate the author's theoretical views. Jacqueline Grenez Brovender is a freelance translator and a former lecturer in French at Tufts University. Denise Brahimi-Chapuis taught in French and Algerian universities about the relationship between France and the Maghreb and its effect on women.

Feminism --- Women, Arab --- Arabic Women In Algeria --- Arab women --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Emancipation --- Feminism, Arab women, Arab customs, women's issue, Algerian history, French history, gender and society.