Ann Taylor Allen's research while affiliated with University of Louisville and other places

... They add that 'there were many instances in which an individual's ordeal was shaped by his or her gender and it is only by understanding what was unique to women -and what was unique to men -that we can provide a complete account of what occurred'. 15 Ofer and Weitzman also reinforce that 'to use gender as a framework for analysis is simply to become more attentive to the possible consequences of one of the major axes of all social organization -together with age, class, race and religion'. 16 Anabela Valente Simões __________________________________________________________________ 7 ...

... When Bachofen published Mother Right the academic study of religion, anthropology and archaeology was in its infancy, and Troy, Knossos and Babylon were yet to be discovered. It has been argued that Bachofen's reliance on mythology and unscientifi c scholarly methods identifi ed him with the past and with Romanticism, but Ann Taylor Allen has countered that criticism by noting that "in many ways, Bachofen's analysis of mythology as a form of symbolic expression, though it looked backward to the Romantic movement, also anticipated much later insights of psychoanalysis and modern social science" (Allen, 1999(Allen, : 1090. This view is supported by the use made of Bachofen's thesis by Friedrich Engels in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, published in 1884. ...

... Since both Núria Pompeia and Lidia Falcón were mothers, we may assume to some extent that they were reflecting their own experiences, mixed with the feminist readings and ideas already circulating in Spain at the time. In this sense, they were distancing themselves from previous feminist movements, which tended to use motherhood to claim rights (Allen, 2005;Bock & Thane, 1996). They are, however, typical expressions of 1970s feminism which, following authors such as Simone mónIca garcía Fernández Representations of motherhood in late francoist Spain: From catholic discourses to early feminist critiques de Beauvoir, saw motherhood as one of the primary sources of the subordination and alienation of women and as an obstacle to their emancipation (Allen, 2005;Umansky, 1996;). ...

... Still, historically (Bock, 1983;Schmacks, 2020;Weyrather, 2015) and currently (Giesselmann et al., 2018) in Germany a socio-cultural context exists in which strong and sometimes ambivalent maternal ideologies often go hand in hand with high normative standards. The philosopher Hilge Landweer classifies the 'joy of sacrifice' as a typical German construct in her historical reconstruction work on the 'normative behavioural pattern "maternal love"' (Landweer, 1989). ...

... The logic of the field is the system of expertise it provides, and the basis for that expertise. which grew out of social movements in the 1960's and 1970's (Butler and Walter 1991;Rycroft 1991;Allen 1996;Slaughter 1997). Would-be disciplines must demonstrate their legitimacy amongst relevant constituencies, including the existing academy, to acquire the resources necessary for their establishment. ...

... In her novel, Quick (2010) tells with a time set around the 1800s. The decade 1800 and 1884 was a decline in the status of women in European society (Allen, 1999). Reforms carried out by church reformers did not significantly help the fate of women. ...