The Second Glance: Women | Mira Sievers

Film

“Women” is the second integrated exhibition in the series The Second Glance. The show analyses the traditional gender roles and challenges the functions ascribed to women in society – for example, as goddesses, heroines, prostitutes, saints, queens, academics – and on the role of women in society. In six themed paths featuring 62 objects dating from the 4th to the 18th century, these women are situated within their own historical contexts and also discussed through the critical lens of the 21st century.

Mira Sievers is a Muslim theologist at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied in Frankfurt am Main and London and earned her doctoral degree in Frankfurt in the area of creation theology in the Qur’an. In the process, she spent a great deal of time studying languages in Cairo, Istanbul, and Beirut. In Berlin, Mira Sievers currently focuses on Islamic religious instruction and Islamic ethics.