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Root number
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516058 |
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Semester
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FS2026 |
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Type of course
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Course |
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Allocation to subject
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History |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Men’s Worlds? Gender and Power from a Global Historical Perspective (1860–1960) |
| Description |
Historical science provides orientation knowledge for the present. And for many, the present seems like a backlash: ‘manosphere’, ‘tech bros’, ‘petro-masculinity’, (anti-)feminism, and queerphobia – the tension between gender and power is omnipresent in everyday life. This reading course offers a critical examination of this topic from a global historical perspective. What role did gender norms and images of masculinity play in social and political transformations between 1860 and 1960? To what extent were European expansion, racism, (anti-)colonialism, and masculinity interrelated? What spaces existed for queer life in cities such as Berlin or Tokyo? What spaces existed for anti-feminism? And what influence did global mass migration and social inequality have on the understanding of gender?
In this reading course, we will examine fundamental texts on global gender history. A particular focus will be on how gender norms and power relations change, become disrupted, and are renegotiated under the influence of global interdependence, imperialism, decolonisation, and global fascism. European classics of gender studies, such as Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) and Klaus Theweleit’s Männerfantasien (1977), will be discussed in dialogue with works by Awa Thiam (La Parole aux négresses, 1978), Saidiya Hartman (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, 2019), and Cara Daggett (Petromasculinity, 2018). The reading course seeks to place the texts read in their historical contexts with the help of sources, thereby creating a transfer of knowledge between theory and practice. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Philipp Wigand Michael Horn, Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary History ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -106, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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