Lecture explores female masculinty in German literature
By Christine Peterson
Staff Writer
Updated: Thursday, November 3, 2011 01:11
http://www.dailycampus.com/news/lecture-explores-female-masculinty-in-german-literature-1.2681156#.TrKs9HHSoktThis week, the Rainbow Center hosted the next in its 'Out to Lunch' lecture series, featuring Ute Bettray, a Ph.D candidate in German Studies with a certificate in Women's Studies at UConn. The lecture focused on Bettray's ongoing thesis of the continuous line of expressing transgendered embodiment in 20th century German literature.
The lecture, entitled "From Bertolt Brecht's Der gute Mensh van Sezuan to Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina: Developing a Continuous Line of Expressing Transgendered Embodiment" surrounds the first chapter of her text Female Masculinity in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann.
Bettray began by showing the audience pictures of examples of female masculinity, transsexual males, female to male and butch individuals, but what do all of these terms mean? All of these categories, she says, fall under the umbrella of transgender.
