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Students are able to assess central theoreties of women's and gender studies and can differentiate between central issues of gender studies. They have knowledge about social movement research (keyword: women's movements) as well as about the connection of gender studies to other disciplines in the humanities, like cultural studies, social sciences and economics. They are able to define the meaning of gender as a fundamental structural category in social contexts.

Language of instruction and discussion is English. The course is meant to encourage students to practice reading and discussing academic texts in English even if English is not their first language.

How were bodies visually portrayed? What representations of gender, class, and other categories of social inequality can be identified in historical sports photography? In this seminar, we will examine historical perspectives on bodies and gender as well as visual history. In addition to theoretical and methodological approaches, students will develop their own research projects using photographs primarily from the first half of the 20th century from the Innsbruck City Archives, the Berlin Sports Museum, and digital resources.

Please note: A visit to the Innsbruck City Archives is planned. The research results will be presented (poster presentation) on June 17, 2026, as part of the university's “Diversity Week.”

Discussion of theoretical and methodological texts, moderation of text discussions by students, analyzing sources, developing and presenting your own project, peer learning and peer feedback

Attendance, continuous participation and active participation in discussion, moderating a discussion; project development and presentation (poster), comment/feedback on another project (= continuous assessment)

The research results will be presented (poster presentation) on June 17, 2026, as part of the university's “Diversity Week.”

Benninghaus, Christina / Maynes, Mary Jo: Introduction. Putting Images to Work: Constructing, Complicating and Subverting Gender, in: Visual History (2025), https://visual-history.de/2025/10/06/benninghaus-maynes-putting-images-to-work-gender-and-the-visual-archive/.

Bynum, Caroline: Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective, in: Critical Inquiry 22 (1995) 3, 1-33.

Eiben, Jörn / Stieglitz, Olaf: Depicting Sporting Bodies – Visual Sources in the Writing of Sport History. An Introduction, in: Historical Social Research 43 (2018), 7-24.

Huggins, Mike / O’Mahony, Mike: Prologue: Extending Study of the Visual in the History of Sport, in: Huggins, Mike / O’Mahony, Mike (Hg.): The Visual in Sport. London 2012, 3-18.

Pilarczyk, Ulrike / Mietzner, Ulrike: Methods of Image Analysis in Research in Educational and Social Sciences, in: Pilarczyk, Ulrike / Mietzner, Ulrike (Hg.): Visualizing Subject and Object in the History of Education. Bern 2005.

Steuerwald, Noemi: Modest Riding Missies or Victorious Amazons? A Gender Historical Approach to the History of Women's Equestrianism in Switzerland (1900-1940), in: Stadion 47 (2023) 1, 5-27.

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for questions concerning the Master's Programme Gender, Culture and Social Change please contact the coordinator: gender-studies@uibk.ac.at