Writing Gender into the “István Deák School of History”

Abstract

This contribution discusses István Deák’s influence on the rapidly expanding field of gender in Habsburg Central Europe. While Deák did not employ gender as a category of analysis in his own work, some of the categories he did analyze, including collaboration and resistance, war and retribution, and the Habsburg military, and the way he analyzed them, often with a focus on social history, helped open the way for some of his students to move into the newer field of gender and sexuality.