Sexuality and Gender in Germany

GER-G 464

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Instructor
Nikole Langjahr
Course Description

Topic:

“When is a man a man?” asks a 1980’s German pop song. This course explores issues of sexuality and gender, focusing on historical, social, and political developments in Germany from the late 19th century to the present. Topics to be discussed may include:

    The advent of sexology
    Shifting views on gender roles, homosexuality, transsexuality
    Laws on and attitudes toward abortion, contraception, age of consent, pornography, gay marriage
    Sex education – in school and elsewhere
    Celebrating the body – “free body culture”
    Gender-neutral language

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