Anglistik

Anglistik

Dr. Heike Mißler

Cultural Studies II - UK and Ireland: Gender Studies
Donnerstag, 14-16 Uhr
LSF: 104828
Basismodul

Erste Sitzung: 19. Oktober 2017
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
 
"Gender is a much contested concept, as slippery as it is indispensable, but a site of unease rather than agreement." (David Glover and Cora Kaplan, Genders ix)

Gender Studies are a field of research that has developed out of Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies in the 1990s. One of its key aims, simply put, is to show why and how gender matters in our day-to-day existence and why a binary gender order is not only limiting but also discriminatory. This course will provide a historical overview of how our perceptions of sex and gender have changed over centuries, and how they have shaped our constructions of (sexual) identity. We are going to discuss selected ground-breaking texts of gender studies and combine these theoretical approaches with practical examples taken from our every-day lives (e.g., the bathroom issue, the gender pay gap, gendered marketing), and from literature and culture (e.g., the gendering of literary genres, the male gaze and the celluloid ceiling, the gender-bending performances of selected popstars). In our discussions, we are going to pay particular attention to the issue of intersectionality, i.e. how gender interacts with other identity categories such as race, class, or ability.

You are expected to prepare a reading/viewing for each session.

Texts:
A course reader will be made available to you on Moodle at the beginning of the semester.

Proseminar Angry Young Men, Top Girls, and Sugar Mummies: British Drama from the Post-War Period until Today
Dienstag, 16-18 Uhr
LSF: 104827
Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung

Erste Sitzung: 17. Oktober 2017
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.

In this course we will study three plays from different decades. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956) is the play that gave rise to the so-called ”angry young men”, a group of male playwrights (many from a working-class background) who tackled the complacency of post-war life in Britain. Roughly 25 years later, Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls (1982) presented an equally critical assessment of her society, this time from a feminist perspective. Top Girls deals with Thatcherite business logics and the effect of neoliberalism on the workplace and the family. Yet another twenty-odd years later, Tanika Gupta’s play Sugar Mummies (2006), about female sex tourism in Jamaica, highlights another dimension of British drama by shifting the focus from depictions of class and gender to the intersections of these identity categories with race.
You have to have read Look Back in Anger by the beginning of the first meeting.

Texts:
Please purchase exactly the following editions.
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956. London: Faber and Faber, 2015.  ISBN-10: 057132276X // ISBN-13: 978-0571322763
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. 1982. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.  ISBN-10: 1408106035 //
ISBN-13: 978-1408106037
Tanika Gupta’s Sugar Mummies and additional readings will be made available to you via Moodle.

Zertifikat "Gender Studies"

Seit dem WS 2016/17 können Studierende der UdS ein Zertifkat "Gender Studies" erwerben.

Hier finden Sie weitere Details.