Critical gender studies
Upbringing, education and socialisation do not take place outside of gender relations: they are structured by prevailing gender norms and gendered inequalities and in turn have an impact on these relations. This interrelationship is examined in the Critical Gender Studies teaching and research area and scrutinised for consequences for Educational Sciences research and pedagogical action. The practical orientation is aimed at academic education and reflexive gender knowledge that can be made professionally productive in research and educational practice.
The category of gender is understood from several perspectives: as a category of inequality that produces and legitimises hierarchies and unequal life chances; as a symbolically and interactively produced body of knowledge that materialises in discourses and institutions; as a social fact that is inscribed in the experience of identity, body and desire through habitualisation processes; and finally as a meaningful experience in the life course. Social and power theories, practice and discourse theories provide orientation for the analysis and critique of gendering processes (of the social, of action, of the subject, of the pedagogical, etc.).
Photos: SOLANGE _ Feminist art intervention
A project about the myth of equality achieved by Magª. Katharina Cibulka