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Students acquire basic knowledge in current debates on women and gender studies as well as a survey on critical gender studies with focus on women's history and gender history. They will reach sensibility when using concepts such as gender, sex, private, public, race, nature, culture....

What is the gender of history? Gender studies have developed out of their feminist beginnings and have been deeply influenced by the new approaches in social history, anthropology and new cultural history. This lecture gives a historical survey on the beginnings of women and gender studies with focus on women's history and gender history. We will dicuss the central concepts and issues of critical gender studies and reflect on the discussions in the background. The topics we will discuss include the categories of gender, female and male; gender and class, estates, nation and ethnicity; public and private; politics of gender; history of the body and sexuality; the gender of history and historical research.

interactive lectures; accompanying text readings (homework) and discussion in class

text readings; final exam

Claudia Opitz-Belakhal: Geschlechtergeschichte. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2010.