Reflections on postfeminism and feminist activism today

19.01.2017 I 02:15 pm I Room 5a EG 002

Prof. Desiree Lewis, PhD

University of the Western Cape, Belville, Republic of South Africa

Currently Marie Jahoda visiting professor at Ruhr University Bochum

Currently, there are enormous controversies about what feminism can and should mean in the context of postcolonial debates, the politics of difference as well as the subversiveness and ambiguities of aspects of  contemporary popular culture. This talk will reflect on my understandings of feminisms and postfeminism, focusing especially on my personal navigation of  "being a feminist" in the present day.

The guest lecture takes place in the course „Globalization and Social Change“, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jungwirth,

in the study program Gender and Diversity, B.A.