Gender as Taboo
Members
Ute Frietsch, Sabine Grenz, Lidia Guzy, Konstanze Hanitzsch, Beatrice Michaelis, Jennifer John
Time Frame
2006 bis Wintersemester 2007/08
Research Questions
Active
Field of research and research questions
The research topic of the work group “Gender as Tabu” was the relationship between scientific and social thematizations of gender and their scientific and social de- thematization: The group pursued the question of how the knowledge of and also the silence regarding gender relations functions in the self-understanding of western societies. With that we reflected on the function given to gender studies today: which fields receive and accept gender studies and which fields resist — and why? The group also focused on the visualization of gender relations in art and advertising. Theoretical approaches used in the working group included: positions from gender and science studies, sexuality research by Michel Foucault, international tabu research, psychoanalysis, queer research in medieval studies. Ute Frietsch, Konstanze Hanitzsch, Jennier John and Beatrice Michaelis organized the interndisciplinary workshop “Gender as Tabu: places dynamics and functions” through a call for papers. In addition they invited two keynote speakers. The contributions of the workshop were included in the Research Training Group’s edited series, GenderCodes.
Conferences
Geschlecht als Tabu. Orte, Dynamiken und Funktionen
27-28 October2006
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Publications
Geschlecht als Tabu. Orte, Dynamiken und Funktionen der De/Thematisierung von Geschlecht, hg. v. Ute Frietsch, Konstanze Hanitzsch, Jennifer John und Beatrice Michaelis, Bielefeld 2008.