Workshop: Aesthetic Feminism I: French Feminist Thought – Now and Then

With: Prof. Dr. Cecilia Sjöholm (Stockholm) and Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger (Berlin)
Organization: Prof. Dr. Frauke Berndt

The thesis of the project META: Margareta Klopstock’s Aesthetic Feminism is that Margareta Klopstock’s bourgeois feminism is an aesthetic feminism.
This bourgeouis feminism arises from social practices of women’s everyday life (family, friendship, love, marriage, fashion, secretarial work, etc.) which shape new aesthetic forms in her letters and literary texts. These aesthetic forms manifest themselves on the levels of materiality, genre poetics, and metafiction. By analyzing her epistolary and literary oeuvre on the methodological basis of a literary-sociological approach, the research project will yield a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary research on “female” or even “feminist Enlightenment.

In the workshop, Aesthetic Feminism I, we will discuss the origins of modern feminism in early modern France and reflect on these ideas in light of contemporary theories. The concept of "aesthetic feminism," which combines social and aesthetic forms, provides the framework.
The talks will be in English and German.

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