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The author bases her gender specific analysis of ehe party politics of the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) and of the staging of the party's public appearances since the beginning of Jörg Haiders chairmanship in 1986 on two assumptions. She defines the FPÖ as a (national- or right-wing-) populist party and she focuses on situations of crisis as a common denominator in the development of populism and gender relations. Populist politics, just like gender relations, result and produce crises on different social levels, which are characteristic for the situation of Austrian society at the turn of the 21st century. The FPÖ is by tradition a male party, which has become apparent in the recruitment strategies for its leading elites in male Student corporations and the populist content of its politics, which concentrated on male-orientated topics such as hate of foreigners and public security. At the national elections this resulted in a voter-gender gap of 11 %. This means, that it were Austrian women, who in recent years prevented the FPÖ to become the largest party in Austria. The FPÖ tried to react with a variety of strategies: on the personal level women acquired in leading positions, and on the political level the FPÖ made the crucial specifically female contradiction, namely to integrate jobs and familywork, one of the focal points of their campaigns. By doing so they tried, even by recurring to countless contradictory arguments and demands, to maximize their female votes at all cost, which is one of the major characteristics of populism. ; The author bases her gender specific analysis of ehe party politics of the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) and of the staging of the party's public appearances since the beginning of Jörg Haiders chairmanship in 1986 on two assumptions. She defines the FPÖ as a (national- or right-wing-) populist party and she focuses on situations of crisis as a common denominator in the development of populism and gender relations. Populist politics, just like gender relations, result and produce crises on different social levels, which are characteristic for the situation of Austrian society at the turn of the 21st century. The FPÖ is by tradition a male party, which has become apparent in the recruitment strategies for its leading elites in male Student corporations and the populist content of its politics, which concentrated on male-orientated topics such as hate of foreigners and public security. At the national elections this resulted in a voter-gender gap of 11 %. This means, that it were Austrian women, who in recent years prevented the FPÖ to become the largest party in Austria. The FPÖ tried to react with a variety of strategies: on the personal level women acquired in leading positions, and on the political level the FPÖ made the crucial specifically female contradiction, namely to integrate jobs and familywork, one of the focal points of their campaigns. By doing so they tried, even by recurring to countless contradictory arguments and demands, to maximize their female votes at all cost, which is one of the major characteristics of populism.

"Unter dem Titel 'Welches Jahrhundert wird uns gehören? Frauen - Feminismus - Öffentlichkeit' führt uns Gabriella Hauch auf einen historischen Streifzug der Aktivitäten frauenbewegter Frauen in Europa seit der Französischen Revolution. Sie geht dabei insbesondere der Bedeutung von Mannsein und Frausein für Aus- und Einschluß in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen nach und zeigt sowohl Art und Weise sowie Inhalt der Aktivitäten von Frauen in der Öffentlichkeit auf, als auch deren Auswirkungen insbesondere auf die Gestaltung der Geschlechterverhältnisse." (Autorenreferat)

Die Verfasserin thematisiert die Wirkungsmacht der Kategorie Geschlecht hinsichtlich von Ausschluss und Einschluss von Männern und Frauen in Politik, Macht und Öffentlichkeit im Kontext des Aufbrechens politischer und gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse in den Revolutionsmonaten der Jahre 1848/49. Die ambivalente Sicht auf weibliche Wehr- und Politikfähigkeit beantworteten revolutionäre Frauen in Wien, Berlin und Prag mit der Gründung demokratischer Frauenvereine. 1848 war somit das Ursprungsjahr weiblichen Widerstandes gegen die Ausschließung von Frauen aus den politischen Strukturen der Moderne, ein Widerstand, der auch 150 Jahre später noch aktuell ist. (ICE)