Feminist psychological voices in Vienna

The project “Feminist Psychological Voices in Vienna” aimed to make the work of feminist psychologists and psychosocial practitioners in Viennese women’s and girls’ counseling centers internationally visible. For this purpose, the project team, consisting of Ass.-Prof. Dr. Nora Ruck, Emelie Rack, BSc. (Sigmund Freud University Vienna), Mag. Ing. Susanne Hahnl (Independent Researcher), and Dr. Barbara Rothmüller (Sigmund Freud University Vienna), created 22 biographical profiles of these actors as well as a digital exhibit on women’s and girls’ counseling in Vienna, which was published on the international multimedia website “Psychology’s Feminist Voices” in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Alexandra Rutherford (York University Toronto).
The biographical profiles were based on oral history interviews with Viennese feminist psychologists and psychosocial practitioners, complemented by archival materials on their organizations and on the history of the women’s movement in Vienna. The digital exhibit focuses on the context and conditions of women’s and girls’ counseling centers in Vienna. The fact that feminist psychological knowledge developed so strongly in the counseling context in Vienna indicated that conditions were particularly conducive to the founding and institutionalization of such centers. This contribution of the City of Vienna to the production of feminist psychological knowledge was elaborated in the digital exhibit and thereby made internationally visible.