Annina Gagyiova
Ph.D.
International project
Women Experts and Feminist Knowledge Production in Post-War East Central Europe, 1945–1989 [FemEx]
Provider: The Czech Science Foundation
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Project duration:
2025–2027
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Project ID: GA25-14627L
In post-war East Central Europe, socialist states supported women’s access to higher education, which led to an increasing number of women in academia. In line with existing interwar traditions, many of these emerging female scholars devoted their scholarly careers to developing research on problems mainly related to women’s lives. FemEx aims to systematically and comparatively analyze the formation, circulation, and impact of the expertise centered on “women’s issues” that challenged gender-based inequalities and was developed by women experts in three post-war state socialist countries: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Focusing on medicine, social sciences, and law, the project will address expertise about women related to labor, the family, and health. By analyzing a wide array of historical sources comparatively and using the repertoire of sociology of expertise and a biographic approach, the project will identify women scientists and experts who have advanced knowledge about women-related issues and explore their engagement in scientific and advocacy networks.
