The starting point of this project is the role that gender played in the social discourse and practice of Weimar-Jena around 1800. Based on comparative gender history, which focuses both on men and women, the project challenges traditional assumptions and arrives at new conclusions. The project attempts to break through stereotypes of men and women through selected examples, disclosing spheres of action as well as gender concepts which existed in spite of the limitations resulting from social discourse and were furthermore passed on in constantly modified forms. more >>