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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.

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)

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/.

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.

Stieglitz, Olaf: Swimming the Crawl to Educate the Modern Body: Visual Material and the Expanding Market for Participatory Sports in the USA, 1890s–1930s, in: Bonah, Christian / Laukötter, Anja (Hg.): Body, Capital, and Screens. Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century. Amsterdam 2020, 159-179.

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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