TY - JOUR A1 - Andres, Katharina T1 - 'Fashion's Final Frontier': The Correlation of Gender Roles and Fashion in Star Trek JF - Culture Unbound N2 - Since its creation in 1966, Star Trek has been a dominant part of popular culture and as thus served as the source for many cultural references. Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry wanted to realize his vision of a utopia but at the same time, he used the futuristic setting of the show to comment on the present time, on actual social and political circumstances. This means that each series can be regarded as a mirror image of the time in which it was created. The clothing of the characters in the different series is one part of that image. The uniforms of The Original Se-ries show influences of the 1960s pop art movement as well as the mini-skirt trend that experienced its peak in that decade. In the course of almost 40 years, howev-er, many things changed. In the 1990s, in Deep Space Nine and Voyager, a unisex uniform replaced the mini-dresses, with few exceptions; the colorful shirts gave way to ones that were mostly black. This trend continues into the new century. This essay interprets the evolution of the female officers’ uniforms from femi-nized dresses to androgynous clothing over the development of the series as a reflection of the change of gender roles in contemporary American society. The general functions of the female characters’ uniforms are the central object of its analysis while the few, but noteworthy exceptions to this pattern are given specif-ic attention. Finally, one of the most intriguing lines of enquiry is, how the pre-quel series Enterprise, supposed to be set before The Original Series, but pro-duced and aired from 2001 to 2005, fits in the picture. KW - Star Trek KW - science fiction KW - fashion KW - women KW - 1960s KW - backlash Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-128827 VL - 5 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Segueda, Wendpanga Eric T1 - Imported Religions, Colonialism and the Situation of Women in Africa N2 - Women are a key to development, and gender is crucial to development policies. However, Western development organisations often promote gender equality as something valued in the West, or even as a new idea altogether, rather than taking the time to research how it was rooted in African societies. The same holds true for many Africans who frequently argue that gender equality is a Western idea. This paper intents to show that gender equality or complementarity is not an altogether new phenomenon to African societies, but that it existed in pre-colonial Africa. Raising awareness on this within African societies can help to put in place strategies for gender equality and facilitate change from within. N2 - Frauen sind ein Schlüssel zur Entwicklung, und Gender-Aspekte nehmen eine Schlüsselrolle in Entwicklungsstrategien ein. Westliche Entwicklungshilfeorganisationen befördern die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter jedoch oft als Teil des “westlichen” Wertekanons beziehungsweise als grundsätzlich neues Konzept, ohne zu berücksichtigen, wie Gleichstellung in afrikanischen Gesellschaften verankert war. Gleiches gilt für viele afrikanische Vertreter, die die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter als westliches Konzept darstellen. Dieser Beitrag möchte zeigen, dass Gleichberechtigung für afrikanische Gesellschaften kein komplett neues Phänomen ist, sondern bereits im vorkolonialen Afrika existierte. Sensibilisierung für dieses Erbe kann dabei helfen, in afrikanischen Gesellschaften Strategien zur Gleichstellung der Geschlechter zu initiieren und Wandel von innen heraus zu ermöglichen. T3 - Schriftenreihe Junges Afrikazentrum (JAZ) - 3 KW - Afrika KW - Gleichberechtigung KW - Religion KW - Kolonialismus KW - women KW - religion KW - situation of women KW - colonialism KW - Africa Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-122400 SN - 2199-4315 ET - 1 ER -