ABSTRACT

'Memory and Utopia' looks at the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and feminist theory and practice, the book highlights how women struggled to be recognized as full subjects. The themes of utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers are explored. 'Memory and Utopia' examines the sense of belonging to Europe that has emerged in the last twenty years. The book analyses European identity as expressed through identities based on gender, age and culture to explore an inclusive and non-hierarchical subjectivity.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part I|62 pages

The Past and Historical Research

chapter 1|18 pages

Memories Between Silence and Oblivion

chapter 3|21 pages

‘Utopia’ and Desire

part II|40 pages

The Present and the Sense of Belonging

chapter 5|19 pages

The Last Identification

Why Some of us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What we Mean by This