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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua, +43 512 507 4194, +43 512 507 34421

609770

Gender Studies

VU 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The aim of this course is to familiarise students with key concepts of feminist theory for the analysis of identity and difference in texts, movies, and lyrics.

Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines feminist and queer theoretical perspectives including race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, and other identities. This course teaches students to think critically about the social construction of identity and the politics of knowledge production. Students will use these critical-thinking skills to understand people's lives within a global context and analyse the systems of oppression that contribute to continuing economic, political, and cultural inequalities. They will not only be encouraged to use gender as a category of analysis, but also to reflect on the manifestation of gender in their own lives, leading to a range of personal and intellectual discoveries.

lecture, group discussions, presentations

written

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. Print. ---. Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print. ---. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print. Lindhoff, Lena. Einführung in die Feministische Literaturtheorie. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1995. Print. Nfah-Abbenyi Makuchi, Juliana. Gender in African Women’s Writing. Identity, Sexuality, and Difference. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. Print. Osinski, Jutta. Einführung in die Feministische Literaturwissenschaft. Berlin: ESV, 1998. Print. Robbins, Ruth. Literary Feminisms. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Print. Rooney, Ellen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print.

Beginn: 05. März 2013