In der »Rumpelkammer des Vergessens«: Frauen zwischen Archiv und Kanon

Abstract

With the task of remembering, the archive stores knowledge and thus enables the canon to forget this knowledge. What has been forgotten there can only be (re)remembered if someone decides to visit the archive. The canon, on the other hand, presents selected knowledge for everyone as something that must be remembered. The example of gender bias in the educational science debate on classics makes it clear that the circulation of knowledge is strongly determined. The active examination of forgotten knowledge/persons in the archive offers the opportunity to participate in the negotiation of knowledge in a reflexive and power-critical way.