Lotta König offers theoretical and practical considerations on how to encourage a reflective engagement with gender norms in foreign language teaching. She utilizes the potential of literary texts to provide insights into diverse gendered life worlds while also creating a safe space for exploring a personally relevant topic. Corresponding literary didactic considerations are integrated with findings from Gender Studies. From this, the author develops methodological and didactic foundations for gender reflection in English lessons, which are applied and evaluated in a teaching series.