This cluster brings together research approaches that focus on perception, representation and visibility from a gender-specific perspective. Among other things, it deals with gaze regimes, representation models and body discourses, questions of power, dominance and participation, desire, understanding of roles and stereotyping, which manifest themselves in speaking, writing and thinking about ‘sex’ or ‘gender’. In the subjects and disciplines represented, these issues are analysed in literature, art, language and media as well as in society, religion and politics. This cluster is inter- and transdisciplinary in nature. It combines historical subjects with contemporary research, which often includes an intercultural or transnational perspective.

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer
Postcolonial Studies