Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam, course: Genre and Gender, language: English, abstract: History has always been a space of male deeds, male achievements, male gain or loss. Or so one is made to believe in retrospection. Of course women were not absent from history but they certainly are to a great extent from historical representations. Patriarchy dominated Western culture for more than two thousand years and supplied the framework for what is to be known and how, i.e. in which contexts, it...
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam, course: Genre...
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,1, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Diese Studie untersucht das Zusammenspiel zwischen imperialen und Weiblichkeitsdiskursen in den Reiseberichten britischer Frauen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Im Besonderen werden die Reiseberichte von Lucie Duff Gordon und Amelia Edwards beleuchtet und hinsichtlich ihrer Einordnung in kulturelle, politische und soziale Zusammenhange analysiert. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei hauptsachlich auf Konstruktionen...
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,1, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Ame...