Review of: Gaja von Sychowski: Geschlecht und Bildung. Beiträge der Gender-Theorie zur Grundlegung einer Allgemeinen Pädagogik im Anschluss an Judith Butler und Richard Hönigswald. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann 2011.

Authors

  • Sahra Dornick Universität Potsdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1040

Keywords:

Geschlecht, Gender, Bildung, Kultur

Abstract

In the publication of her professorial dissertation, Gaja von Sychowski intends to design a general pedagogy within the context of poststructuralist thinking. In doing so, she not only addresses a long overdue topic, but she also succeeds in elaborating it on a most abstract level. However, the formalistic consistency that the author uses to advance her research is ambivalent: on the one hand, the reduction of complexity bridges gaps between different disciplines, on the other hand, gender loses meaning if it is eventually subsumed under performance. Consequently, an outline of a general pedagogy, which omits the subject-constituting power of gender, emerges.

Author Biography

Sahra Dornick, Universität Potsdam

MA Soziologie/Germanistik; Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Germanistik, Neuere deutsche Literatur/19. u. 20. Jahrhundert; Graduiertencolloquium des ZIFG (TU Berlin)

Published

2012-11-09

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