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Editorial .p. .p. ASPASIA Statement of Purpose It is a great pleasure to present the first volume of Aspasia, an international peer- reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of inter- disciplinary women’s and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. As its name suggests, Aspasia brings together the three parts of Europe that the yearbook will primarily deal with—Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Aspa- sia of Miletus was a learned and independent woman, famous for her intelligence and wit, who lived from c. 469 to c. 406 BCE. While her knowledge influenced famous thinkers like Plato, Pericles, and Socrates, her work ‘survived only through the voices of the men she had inspired’. In 1876, the Austrian writer Robert Hamerling published a cultural-historical novel about Aspasia, which was apparently widely read. His book inspired the Latvian poetess and feminist Elza Plieks=a\ne-Rozenberga, who took ‘Aspazija’ as her pen name—thus creating a link between Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Aspasia’s main goal is to stimulate innovative interdisciplinary historical research about women and gender in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, parts of Eu- rope where the field of women’s and gender http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aspasia Berghahn Books

Editorial

de Haan, Francisca
Aspasia , Volume 1 (1) – Mar 1, 2007
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Berghahn Books
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1933-2882
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1933-2890
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10.3167/asp.2007.010101
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.p. .p. ASPASIA Statement of Purpose It is a great pleasure to present the first volume of Aspasia, an international peer- reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of inter- disciplinary women’s and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. As its name suggests, Aspasia brings together the three parts of Europe that the yearbook will primarily deal with—Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Aspa- sia of Miletus was a learned and independent woman, famous for her intelligence and wit, who lived from c. 469 to c. 406 BCE. While her knowledge influenced famous thinkers like Plato, Pericles, and Socrates, her work ‘survived only through the voices of the men she had inspired’. In 1876, the Austrian writer Robert Hamerling published a cultural-historical novel about Aspasia, which was apparently widely read. His book inspired the Latvian poetess and feminist Elza Plieks=a\ne-Rozenberga, who took ‘Aspazija’ as her pen name—thus creating a link between Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Aspasia’s main goal is to stimulate innovative interdisciplinary historical research about women and gender in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, parts of Eu- rope where the field of women’s and gender

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