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Why Gender(s)? - Navigating Gender Studies +++English+++

The term "gender" has become ubiquitous – it comes up in heated debates about language use, it is used in the rhetorics of reactionaries as a means to belittle progressive tendencies, but addressing gender is no longer avoidable when talking about bodies, salaries, sexuality, identity, education, legal situations, religion, political and medial representation and many other fields. The aim of this course is to retrace "gender studies" as an interdisciplinary field with a variety of approaches to what gender is and can be. The course addresses both students (and soon-to-be teachers) who are already interested in gender studies, as well as students that are new to such academic discourses and would like to obtain an understanding of the term, its meanings and implications. We will read theoretical texts and 'apply' the analytical and methodological tools provided by gender theorists to the analysis of American texts and media between the written word (short story, novel excerpt, poetry) and visual culture (photography, film/television, art, comic/graphic novel).

Englisches Seminar I, Dr. Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank

Raum: Seminarraum S 66

bjoern.sonnenberg@uni-koeln.de

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