Gesehen werden. Lebenswege und Karrieren von Kommunikationswissenschaftlerinnen der Aufbaugeneration - ein Beitrag zur feministischen Fachgeschichtsschreibung.

Taking a look back in history, or at least, at what is presented to us as history, it becomes apparent that it is a meta-narrative shaped by men, a »his-story«, based on an androcentric worldview. The histories of disciplines such as communication science, too, are for the most part concerned with and told by men. Only infrequently, at the sidelines, do women appear. Besides the question of gender as a consequential social marker there is also the question of generation as a cohesive element. This article deals with the life and work of five of communication science's female academics from Germany and Austria (Herta Herzog, Elisabeth Noelle, Marianne Lunzer, Hertha Sturm, Elisabeth Löckenhoff), who belong to the age cohort of those born between 1910 and 1930. Although these female academics do share some common characteristics with respect to their countries of birth, their professions, their sex and the generation to which they belong, they are different in many ways when it comes to their lives and their career paths - compared to one another and to their (male) colleagues. It is these differences and similarities that I will focus on, before discussing the extent to which it can be useful to examine the historical development of an academic field from a gender perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]