Frigga Haug – författare

Frigga Haug, one of Germany's best-known feminist and Marxist critics, develops here a profound challenge both to women's oppression and to what she sees as women's 'collusion' in that oppression. Rejecting the essentialism of much feminist writing today, along with the denial of subjectivity that still permeates Marxism, Haug explores the connections between Marxist theory and the emancipation of women, a project which necessarily involves, as she explains, "diverting a powerful and long-standing anger into detective work."Under the headings of Socialization, Work and Politics, she combines the fruits of these investigations with the influential "memory-work" she has pioneered with women's collectives, to throw startling new light on a wide range of themes and issues: personal ethics and public morality; daydreams, domesticity and consumerism; privatization, new technologies and the restructuring of the workplace; the evolution of women's politics in Germany; the future of socialist feminism in the wake of Communism's collapse.Above all, this is a book which strives to find new links between the micro-politics of daily life and the evolving structures of capitalism. "If we could find out why and when our hopes for life were buried," Haug argues, "then we could try to take our history in our own hands." Beyond Female Masochism provides the materials, and inspiration, to do just that.

Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative "femininity." A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, women's gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Placing themselves at the crossroad where feminism and socialism meet, the contributors move seamlessly between the autobiographical and the analytical, questioning the diversion between personal and political, mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body. Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.

Die Absicht, engagiert politisch zu handeln, stellt Akteur*innen immer wieder vor die Frage: Wie sich organisieren? Welche Form der Organisierung ermöglicht welches politische Handeln, welcher Grad an Organisierung ist für ein politisches Handeln notwendig? Wie lässt sich an mehreren Herrschaftsknoten rütteln und Spaltungsabsichten entgegenwirken? Wie gestaltet sich das Verhältnis zwischen politischer Wirkung/Macht und Organisation? "Sich organisieren" beinhaltet dabei zugleich eine Ambivalenz von Singular und Plural, von Einzelnen und Gruppe/Kollektiv/Bewegung/Partei, die/das politische Handlungsmacht wiederum daraus ziehen mag, dass sie aus den vielen eine Stimme formt.In Brechts Fatzer-Fragment warten die vier aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg Desertierten in Mülheim auf etwas, auf das Beginnen der politischen Tätigkeit, auf den Ausbruch der Revolution – auf was eigentlich? Dabei kämpfen sie mit dem Problem, sich zu organisieren, mit den Fragen von Zusammenhalt und Egoismus, von Zugehörigkeit und Ausschluss, der Fähigkeit zu handeln, anzugreifen oder sich zu verteidigen, von Hierarchie und Anarchie, von Beschlussfassung und offener Diskussion. Im vorliegenden Band wurden Formen der Organisierung in gegenwärtigen Arbeits- und sozialen Kämpfen, die gemeinsame Selbstorganisierung von Geflüchteten und Unterstützer*innen, Strategien im Umgang mit der ''Neuen Rechten'' in Theater- und Kunsträumen und die politische Organisierung Fatzers und seiner Mitdeserteure befragt. Diese werden im Buch ergänzt durch Überlegungen zur internationalen Arbeiterbewegung vom 19. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert, zum Funktionieren des Demokratischen Konföderalismus in Rojava, zu marxistisch-feministischen Positionen in der aktuellen Sexismus-Debatte sowie zur Praxis des Ensemble-Netzwerks.Der sechste Band der Mülheimer Fatzerbücher – Organisation/Organisierung – gibt das Symposium wieder, spiegelt die Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Politischen und dem Ästhetischen und dokumentiert die während der Fatzer Tage gezeigten Aufführungen ausführlich: die Fatzer-Inszenierung von Jürgen Kuttner und Tom Kühnel (Deutsches Theater Berlin) sowie den für die Fatzer Tage produzierten Stadtrundgang Go! Fatzer! Go! der Leipziger Gruppe friendly fire und die über den Open Call entstandene Performance how to be we von Bergmann | Gilles (Gießen/Hildesheim).

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM’s wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demirović, Klaus Dörre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Küttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, André Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis.

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This second volume of selected articles in English translation offers readers a further sample of the HCDM’s wide scope of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates.Contributors are: Wolfram Adolphi, Jan Otto Andersson, Helmut Arnold, Konstantin Baehrens, Colin Barker, Theodor Bergmann, Stefan Bollinger, Ulrich Brand, Mario Candeias, Paresh Chattopadhyay, Dagmar Engelken, Sibylle Fischer, Georg Fülberth, Montserrat Galcerán, Stephen Gill, Werner Goldschmidt, Christoph Görg, Volker Gransow, Gerhard Hanappi, Donna Haraway, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Ursula Huws, Peter Jehle, Susan Kippax, Hans Gustav Klaus, Juha Koivisto, Michael Krätke, Wolfgang Küttler, Mikko Lahtinen, Sven-Eric Liedman, Andrea Maihofer, Thomas Marxhausen, Claudia Opitz, Helmut Peitsch, Victor Rego Diaz, Antje Schmitt, Victor Strazzeri, Benno Teschke, Oliver Walkenhorst, Bastiaan Wielenga, Gunter Willing.

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which, in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far, has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994.This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM’s wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates.Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demirović, Klaus Dörre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Küttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, André Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis.