Von der literarischen Skandalfigur zum emanzipatorischen Frauentypus - Julia Drost spürt dem Phänomen der Garçonne nach. Die Garçonne ist die epocheprägende Hauptfigur aus Victor Marguerittes gleichnamigem Roman aus dem ...

Um 1900 gerieten studierende Frauen in den Brennpunkt öffentlicher Debatten. Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgt Romana Weiershausen, wie die Thematik Wissenschaft und Weiblichkeit Eingang in die Literatur fand. Mit der Studentin ...

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and ...

This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational ...

This is a study about the causes and consequences of the eugenic intrusions into our society´s reproductive culture by medicine over the course of the twentieth century. By the turn of the twenty-first century, such ...

This monograph (professorial dissertation FU Berlin 2009) undertakes an interpretation of the entirety of Musil's monumental novel by placing the focus on its socio-analytical critique of contemporary society. It adapts ...