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The course Gender Studies is concieved as an introduction to gender concepts from Antiquity to the present. It focuses, however, on feminist and gender theories of the past four decades.

Detailed information on the course content will be provided in the first session.

Reading and discussion of selected texts in the course; individual writing tasks

Detailed information on the assessment will be provided in the first session.

Introdactory reading recommendations:

Ankele, Gudrun (Hg.): Feminismus (absolute). Freiburg i.Br.: orange-press, 2010. (Anthologie mit einem historischen Essay)

Braun, Christina v. / Stephan, Inge: Gender@Wissen. Stuttgart: UTB, 2013 (3. Auflage).

Degele, Nina: Gender/Queer Studies. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2008.

Osinski, Jutta: Einführung in die feministische Literaturwissenschaft. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1998.

Rooney, Ellen (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Villa, Paula-Irene: Sexy Bodies. Eine soziologische Reise durch den Geschlechtskörper (Geschlecht & Gesellschaft). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2011 (4. Auflage).