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Literature English/American Studies

Course: American Studies , English Studies
Group of courses: Humanities

Basic Literature/Recommended Reading:

  • Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Braithwaite, Ann, and Catherine M. Orr. Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies: Introductory Concepts. New York/London: Routledge, 2017.
  • Buikema, Rosemarie, Liedeke Plate, and Kathrin Thiele, editors. Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies. London/New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. New York/London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Ferguson, R.A. Aberrations in Black. Toward A Queer Of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
  • Giffney, Noreen, and Michael O'Rourke, editors. The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. London: Routledge, 2018.
  • Halberstam, Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
  • Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
  • Launius, Christie, and Holly Hassel. Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing. New York/London: Routledge, 2014.
  • Munoz, Jose Esteban. Disidentification. Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  • Olson, Greta, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, and Leonie Schmidt, editors. Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies. New York/London: Routledge, 2018.
  • Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages. Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
  • Stimpson, Catharine R., and Gilbert Herdt, editors. Critical Terms for the Study of Gender. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
  • Woodward, Kath. The Short Guide to Gender. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Journals:

  • Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies | Website
  • Feministische Studien. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. | Website
  • Feminist Review | Website
  • figurationen. Gender – Kultur – Literatur. | Website
  • FKW – Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur | Website
  • Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien. | Website
  • Gender. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft. | Website
  • gender forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies. | Website
  • Hypatia – A Journal of Feminist Philosophy | Website
  • InterAlia. A Journal of Queer Studies | Website
  • Journal of Gender Studies. | Website
  • online journal Kultur & Geschlecht | Website
  • Open Gender Journal – Open-Access-Zeitschrift in Kooperation mit der Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien | Website
  • querelles-net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. | Website
  • Signs – Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Website
  • Women: A Cultural Review. | Website