In 1998 US-American writer Erica Jong asked "What do Women Want?" in her book of the same title. In 2015 the answer seems more elusive than ever: women's magazines tell us we are having the best sex of our lives, E.L. James' "Fifty Shades" trilogy has allegedly educated an entire generation in all things SM (neither new nor scandalous, Mrs. James!) and the pornsite pornhub found that women prefer lesbian porn, regardless of their own sexual orientation. Have the good girls gone bad? Is there any such thing as "women's sexuality" per se? Aren't we rather talking about imaginations and interpretations that are subject to change? And if so, who imagines them?
In this class we will seek to survey representations of women's sexualities in literature and look into statistics and non-fictional material for comparison. The scope will be limited to the Western world of the 20th and 21st century.
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Do | 14-16 | U2-113 | 09.04.-16.07.2015
not on: 5/14/15 / 6/4/15 / 6/25/15 |
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23-ANG-AngVM5 Vertiefungsmodul 5: Theories & Ideologies | VM 5.2 Literary Theory | Study requirement
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VM 5.3 Cultural Theory | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM6 Vertiefungsmodul 6: Media, Arts & Communication | VM 6.1 Theoretical and Historical Contexts | Study requirement
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30-MGS-5_ver1 Hauptmodul 4: Körper und Gesundheit | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM6 | |||||
Gender Studies / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2013) | Hauptmodul 3 | 3 | (bei Einzelleistung 3 LP zusätzlich) | |||
Geschlechterforschung in der Lehre |