Feminism
The courses on feminism presented here offer a well-founded and differentiated introduction to a central topic in social sciences. They impart fundamental knowledge about gender relations, power structures and forms of gender inequality, and show how feminist approaches can be analytically reflected upon and practically applied in different social, cultural and professional contexts.
The digital formats encourage critical engagement with existing gender norms, stimulate reflection on one's own positions, and offer theory- and practice-oriented impulses for an equality-oriented and discrimination-sensitive approach in various fields of action.
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Online learning platforms:
This online course explores the ideologies that drive feminism to help you understand today’s gender issues as many societies rethink their treatment of women.
This online course covers in an interactive way a comprehensive overview of International and European women’s human rights and gender equality standards, case-law and established good practices. Using the lens of women’s access to justice, it will offer legal professionals in Europe a distinct and concrete tool for the promotion of gender-sensitive justice.
In this free course you will study the ideas of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). In doing so you will also briefly study the philosophy of Beauvoir’s lifelong partner, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The type of philosophy that links them is called ‘existentialism’. Beauvoir and Sartre are the foremost philosophers of French existentialism.
This course exemplifies the importance of archives in the making of history. Professors Laurel Ulrich and Jane Kamensky, along with colleagues from across Harvard University and beyond, show how women in the 20th-century United States pushed boundaries, fought for new rights, and challenged contemporary notions of what women could and should do.
Archives:
Here you can learn more about: Gender stereotypes and discriminatory norms. Women continue to perform the majority of unpaid care work and often have limited access to resources. Economic, political and social rights remain unevenly distributed across genders.
Here you will find publicly accessible educational material on the above-mentioned topic.
Podcasts:
From women's strikes to cyberfeminism, from pioneers in sport to language: the DDF podcast looks at key figures and phenomena from more than 200 years of feminist movement history.
Two women, two generations and the question: How did you actually experience it? Beauty ideals, contraception, finances, care work – all topics that have always affected women, whether they wanted it or not.
How does the Gunda Werner Institute deal with current hot topics, what moves us, what discussions shake our walls, and what is missing from public debates? You can discuss all of this every month.
Media Library:
Whether documentaries, video clips or explanatory films: here you will find a wide range of further education opportunities in the context of gender.
Who should run more of the world? Women. Until then, enjoy these talks by awesome women who lead fiercely and fearlessly.