132037 SE Gender and/in Modernity (2022S)
10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.
Continuous assessment of course work
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Die Blocklehrveranstaltung findet in der Zeit von 07.04. bis 30.06.2022 statt.Update 12.04.2022: Die 4 Unterrichtseinheiten von Freitag wurden auf Donnerstag 18:30 bis 20:00 Uhr, verschoben.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Tu 01.02.2022 09:00 to Mo 28.02.2022 21:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 06.05.2022 21:00
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
07.04.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
28.04.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
05.05.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
12.05.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
19.05.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
19.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
02.06.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
02.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
09.06.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
09.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
23.06.
16:30 - 18:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Thursday
23.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 1 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-01
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The course is designed to look at the complex relationship between modernity and gender, the ways in which women play the roles of cultural transmitters as well as cultural signifiers of the national collectivity. It will also discuss the main aspects of gender relations in understanding the formation of nations and nationalism with a specific focus on the three major dimensions of nationalist projects that relate to citizenship, culture, and origin. We shall explore the gendered nature of citizenship as a social position that both include and exclude women from the general body of citizens, as well as the variety of means taken to ensure that the cultural and biological reproduction of particular social values will fall within the legitimate boundaries of the collectivity. Regarding the cultural dimension of modernity, the course shall explore the histories of arts, the differentiation of the art-culture system into spaces ’appropriate’ for ‘ladies’ versus ‘fallen women’, challenging the feminization of the consumer who is imagined to naturally belong in the realm of the popular/mass culture domain.
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment:
(1) In teams of two taking the lead in the discussion of the weekly reading distribution of topics discussed in the first class.
Points of focalization when preparing:
What is the main argument? What context does the author present to back up this argument? How does this reading relate to the other texts we have discussed in class?
(2) Students will write a seminar paper. Its length is 2500-3000 words. The topics should be decided together with the instructor and explore further one of the weekly topics. Weekly performance in class may put the grade one notch up or down on the scale.
(1) In teams of two taking the lead in the discussion of the weekly reading distribution of topics discussed in the first class.
Points of focalization when preparing:
What is the main argument? What context does the author present to back up this argument? How does this reading relate to the other texts we have discussed in class?
(2) Students will write a seminar paper. Its length is 2500-3000 words. The topics should be decided together with the instructor and explore further one of the weekly topics. Weekly performance in class may put the grade one notch up or down on the scale.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Weekly topics and readings:
1. Introduction
2. The formation of political power: Distinctions of public/private spaces
Pateman, Carole: Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy. In The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism, and Political Theory. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.
3. Hegemonic reconfigurations of the public/private distinctions in the 21st century through girls’ education
Asadullah,M. N., &Chaudhury,N.(2009).Holy alliances: Public subsidies, Islamic high schools, and female schooling in Bangladesh.Education Economics,17(3),377394.
Khurshid,A.(2016).Domesticated gender (in) equality: Women's education & gender relations among rural communities in Pakistan.International Journal of Educational Development,51,4350.
Mouffe,C.(2008).Which world order: Cosmopolitan or multipolar?Ethical Perspectives,15(4),453467.
4. The dual model of sexuality
Laqueur, Thomas. 'Chapter 5: Discovery of the Sexes' in Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press; 1992, 149-192.
5. Gender and nation:
Yuval-Davis: 'Cultural Reproduction and Gender relations' in Gender and Nation. SAGE Publications; 1997.
Cynthia Cockburn: 'Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War,' International Feminist Journal of Politics 2010. 12(2): 139-157.
6. Hegemonic Masculinity: The ideal of the self-made man
Kimmel, Michael. 'The Birth of the Self-made Man' in Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press; 3rd edition; 2011.
Joseph Massad: 'Conceiving the Masculine: Gender and Palestinian Nationalism,'Middle East Journal, 1995, 49(3): 467-483.
Connell, R
7. Legacies of Colonialization: Interplay of race, class and gender
McClintock, Anne. ‘Soft-Soaping Empire Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising' In Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Routledge; 1995.
Melanie Richter-Montpetit: 'Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Prisoner 'Abuse' in Abu Ghraib and the Question of 'Gender Equality', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2007, 9(1): 38-59.
8. Reading Week: Discussion of student projects
9. The formation of high culture (art) and popular (mass) culture
Huyssen, Andreas: 'Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other' in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Indiana University Press; 1986.
10. The 'New Woman': Urbanization and gender
Catherine J. Lavender, 'Notes on New Womanhood' Prepared for Students in HST 386: Women in the City, Department of History, The College of Staten Island/CUNY. 1998.Hennessy, Rosemary: 'Chapter 4: New Woman, New History' in Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse. Milton Park,Abingdon: Routledge, 1993.Connell, R.C and James W. Messerschmidt 'Hegemonic Masculinity. Rethinking the concept' Gender & Society, 2005, (19) 6: 829-859.11. Modernity and the spaces of femininity: the dominance of the look.
Pollock, Griselda. 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity' in Vision and Difference. Milton Park,Abingdon: Routledge, 1988, 121-135. (http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/pollock_modernity.html)Sue Thornham: 'Chapter 2: Fixing into images' in Women, Feminism and Media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
12. The erotics and aesthetics of consumption
Felski, Rita. 'Imagined Pleasures' In The Gender of Modernity. Harvard University Press. 1995.
Duggan, Lisa: 'Chapter 1: Downsizing democracy' in The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
Mcrobbie, Angela: 'Chapter 4: Top Girls? Young Women and the New Sexual Contract' in Aftermath of Feminism. Sage, 2007.
13. Consolidation
1. Introduction
2. The formation of political power: Distinctions of public/private spaces
Pateman, Carole: Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy. In The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism, and Political Theory. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.
3. Hegemonic reconfigurations of the public/private distinctions in the 21st century through girls’ education
Asadullah,M. N., &Chaudhury,N.(2009).Holy alliances: Public subsidies, Islamic high schools, and female schooling in Bangladesh.Education Economics,17(3),377394.
Khurshid,A.(2016).Domesticated gender (in) equality: Women's education & gender relations among rural communities in Pakistan.International Journal of Educational Development,51,4350.
Mouffe,C.(2008).Which world order: Cosmopolitan or multipolar?Ethical Perspectives,15(4),453467.
4. The dual model of sexuality
Laqueur, Thomas. 'Chapter 5: Discovery of the Sexes' in Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press; 1992, 149-192.
5. Gender and nation:
Yuval-Davis: 'Cultural Reproduction and Gender relations' in Gender and Nation. SAGE Publications; 1997.
Cynthia Cockburn: 'Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War,' International Feminist Journal of Politics 2010. 12(2): 139-157.
6. Hegemonic Masculinity: The ideal of the self-made man
Kimmel, Michael. 'The Birth of the Self-made Man' in Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press; 3rd edition; 2011.
Joseph Massad: 'Conceiving the Masculine: Gender and Palestinian Nationalism,'Middle East Journal, 1995, 49(3): 467-483.
Connell, R
7. Legacies of Colonialization: Interplay of race, class and gender
McClintock, Anne. ‘Soft-Soaping Empire Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising' In Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Routledge; 1995.
Melanie Richter-Montpetit: 'Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Prisoner 'Abuse' in Abu Ghraib and the Question of 'Gender Equality', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2007, 9(1): 38-59.
8. Reading Week: Discussion of student projects
9. The formation of high culture (art) and popular (mass) culture
Huyssen, Andreas: 'Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other' in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Indiana University Press; 1986.
10. The 'New Woman': Urbanization and gender
Catherine J. Lavender, 'Notes on New Womanhood' Prepared for Students in HST 386: Women in the City, Department of History, The College of Staten Island/CUNY. 1998.Hennessy, Rosemary: 'Chapter 4: New Woman, New History' in Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse. Milton Park,Abingdon: Routledge, 1993.Connell, R.C and James W. Messerschmidt 'Hegemonic Masculinity. Rethinking the concept' Gender & Society, 2005, (19) 6: 829-859.11. Modernity and the spaces of femininity: the dominance of the look.
Pollock, Griselda. 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity' in Vision and Difference. Milton Park,Abingdon: Routledge, 1988, 121-135. (http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/pollock_modernity.html)Sue Thornham: 'Chapter 2: Fixing into images' in Women, Feminism and Media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
12. The erotics and aesthetics of consumption
Felski, Rita. 'Imagined Pleasures' In The Gender of Modernity. Harvard University Press. 1995.
Duggan, Lisa: 'Chapter 1: Downsizing democracy' in The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
Mcrobbie, Angela: 'Chapter 4: Top Girls? Young Women and the New Sexual Contract' in Aftermath of Feminism. Sage, 2007.
13. Consolidation
Association in the course directory
MA Hungarologie und Finno-Ugristik: MAHF01, MAHF05a
MA Angewandte Linguistik: MA2-M1-1
MA Angewandte Linguistik: MA2-M1-1
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