Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft: Deutscher Orientalistentag 2013; Panel organisiert von Prof. Dr. Almut Höfert und Dr. Serena Tolino, Historisches Seminar Zürich

Zeit: 23. -27.09.2013
Ort: Münster
Deadline: 17.03.2013

As a new historical approach in the late 1980ies, gender history often adhered to what was an established dichotomy – sex vs gender. The first, sex, viewed as an unchanging, biological marker; “gender” instead seen as the historically changing way in which men and women acted according to contemporary understandings of what it meant to be male or female. This opposition between “sex” and “gender”, however, has been challenged in a number of ways (e. g. by Judith Butler but also Joan Scott) and, at least theoretically, dismissed since historical research has shown that the biological category of what we recognize as “sex” was for the most part a product of the 19th century. Read more … (Web)