GESCHLECHTERGESCHICHTEN VOM GENUSS. Zum 60. Geburtstag von Gabriella Hauch

10.10.2019, Aula am Campus, 1090 Wien

Moments of pleasure can be found in a variety of - sometimes surprising - contexts. A look at social norms, practices and actors reveals rewarding - and pleasurable! - perspectives for research. Pleasure can be found in its commodified form in everyday culture, just as it can function as a status symbol or be associated with resistance.

Gabriella Hauch – one of Austria's most recognized gender historians – already dealt with resistant practices in her early research, which are always also "pleasurable" transgressions.

In the anthology celebrating Gabriella Hauch's 60th birthday and academic work, companions, colleagues and friends reflect on pleasure in its historical and contemporary manifestations: from subcultures and celebrations to travel, intoxication and excess to questions of the regulation and scientification of pleasure.