240064 GR x (2024S)

By dividing up specific topics promptly, students should have the opportunity to work intensively on their topic throughout the semester. A review of a seminar text, and two essays will help to deepen the historical understanding. Therefore, in addition to teaching historical and cultural studies knowledge and the methods to be used, the focus is on developing and writing your topic.
Less historical specifics, such as epochal boundaries, will be addressed, allowing students to exemplify the instruments of gender studies using concrete examples. The seminar deals with the evolution of gender relations, which are to be understood as permanent processes of negotiation and power struggles. The course aims to acquire knowledge of gender theories and different methods of gender history, ethnology, sociology, and literary studies. With the help of intersectional perspectives, the interlocking of other forms of differentiation and hierarchization will be shown, and the diversity of gender regulations will be addressed. This is supplemented by actor-centered approaches that help to develop strategies against discrimination. A fundamental teaching objective is to link these practical forms of gender regimes with normative and discursive negotiation processes. By incorporating questions of agency, the gender models and ideologies that have been established and partially discarded should be recognized as persistent, not determinative. At the end of the seminar, students should be able to select a field that corresponds to their interests and work on it based on a corpus of sources. They should be able to find research literature, classify it appropriately, and apply it in their work. Creating their research question is just as important as writing a paper in the seminar.