Building on the early leadership of Frigga Haug in her groundbreaking Female Sexualization: A Collective World of Memory (1987), this book provides a collection of contemporary perspectives on memory-work from researchers in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States, and from the disciplines of education, marketing, sociology, psychology, masculinity studies and social work practice. With respect to the method itself, the authors considered emerging issues and describe the ways in which they have altered or appropriated the method, researcher voice and authority, and consistency between the aims of memory-work and their research. Part I focuses on Frigga Haug's evolving method. In Part II, the different ways in which memory-work has been variously applied in specific domains are explored by Betty Johnston (mathematical identities), Glenda Koutroulis (menstruation), Karin Widerberg (research and teaching), Bob Pease (practices of profeminist men to promote change), Naomi Norquay (immigration stories and social awareness), Judith Kaufman (teacher socialization) and Mary FitzPatrick, Lorraine Friend, and Carolyn Costley (marketing research).

Die Hochschule fUr Wirtschaft und Politik Hamburg, 1948 als Akademie fUr Ge meinwirtschaft gegriindet, ist eine wissenschaftliche Hochschule, die eine integrierte wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Ausbildung in den Fachern Betriebswirt schaftslehre, Rechtswissenschaft, Soziologie und Volkswirtschaftslehre vermittelt. Die Struktur der Hochschule wird dadurch besonders gepragt, dag an ihr Studenten mit abgeschlossener Berufsausbildung oder mehrjahriger Berufspraxis nach einer Aufnahmepriifung gemeinsam mit Studenten mit nur schulischer Zugangsberechti gung studieren, insofern ist sie die einzige wissenschaftliche Hochschule des zweiten Bildungsweges in der Bundesrepublik. Die guten Beziehungen zwischen der Hochschule und den Organisationen der Arbeitnehmer bestehen seit der Griindung der Vorlauferinstitution, an der Gewerk schafter wie Genossenschafter maggeblichen Anteil hatten. Dies setzt bis heute auch Akzente fUr die Arbeit der Wissenschaftler der Hochschule in Forschung und Lehre. So kooperiert die Hochschule fUr Wirtschaft und Politik z.B. in verschiede nen Forschungsprojekten mit gewerkschaftlichen Organisationen und fUhrt einzelne Lehrveranstaltungen durch, an denen auch Arbeitnehmer gemeinsam mit den Studenten teilnehmen. Der nun vorliegende Band "Wissenschaft und Arbeitnehmerinteressen" des J ahrbuchs fUr Sozialokonomie und Gesellschaftstheorie enthait Aufsatze zu einigen der vielen Beriihrungspunkte zwischen Hochschule und Arbeitswelt, die exemplarisch fUr die Verflechtung zweier scheinbar so entfernt liegender Teilbereiche unserer Gesell schaft sind."

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.

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.