Sabine Berghahn

Sabine Berghahn (* 1952 in Detmold ) is a German lawyer , journalist , political scientist and private lecturer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Munich, Sabine Berghahn studied law in Munich and passed her first state examination in 1977 . This was followed by a legal traineeship in Munich and Augsburg and in 1980 the second state examination in law . Berghahn received her doctorate in 1991 from the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin and qualified as a political scientist in 1999. After 1999 she was a private lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, where she held a C2 position from 2002 and until 2009 .

Berghahn worked in several interdisciplinary research projects and in administrative consulting projects and had held various positions in research and teaching in Berlin since 1986, in particular from 1986 she was a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. She held substitute professorships at universities and technical colleges in Bremen, Cottbus and Münster , was a visiting scientist at the Science Center Berlin and has meanwhile worked as a lawyer , journalist and freelance scientist. From 2004 to 2006 she headed the “Project breadwinner model ” of the Free University of Berlin, which was funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation . She was also involved in a major EU research project on the Islamic headscarf .

She is the author of numerous academic articles on women's and gender politics and the editor of several legal advisors.

Her work focuses on the legal foundations of politics and constitutional law , the development of gender equality and anti-discrimination, as well as family and migration policy .

Works

• Susanne Baer , Sabine Berghahn: On the way to a feminist legal culture? German and US approaches . In: Birgit Sauer , Teresa Kulawik: The Halved State: Fundamentals of Feminist Political Science , Campus Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-593-35414-4 , pp. 223-280
• Christoph Butterwegge , Martin Kutscha, Sabine Berghahn (eds.): Rule of the Market - Farewell to the State? Consequences of neoliberal modernization for society, law and politics , Baden-Baden, 1999
• Sabine Berghahn: Basic marriage law versus equality? Trends in constitutional tax law on Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law , femina politica 1 (2003), pp. 46–55.
• Sabine Berghahn: Is the institution of marriage an equal opportunity barrier in gender relations in Germany? In: Maria Oppen, Dagmar Simon (eds.), Persevering Change. Institutions and Gender Relations, Berlin, 2004, pp. 99–138.
• Sabine Berghahn: The spouse's maintenance and overcoming it on the way to individualized livelihood security . In: Sigrid Leitner : Welfare state and gender relations in transition: What comes after the breadwinner model? , VS Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8100-3934-9 , pp. 105-131.
• Sabine Berghahn: Gender equality and community of needs: Forward to the past of the breadwinner model? (PDF; 382 kB) , lecture at the IAB (Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency) on September 14, 2005 in Nuremberg, online version from September 30, 2005
• Sabine Bergham, Maria Wersig : On the way to the two-earner model? Legal and political foundations of the male breadwinner model ( memento of August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , lecture, given on November 15, 2004 as part of the GenderLectures of the GenderKompetenzZentrum Berlin and revised for the print version in March 2005.
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: No income deduction for marriages without a marriage certificate! - The Social Court of Düsseldorf raises the problem of the compulsory communalization of heterosexual couples (PDF; 143 kB) , February 23, 2005
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: Communityization of (marriage) partners through the reforms of Agenda 2010 - a return to the gender contract of the 19th century? (PDF; 55 kB) In: Femina Politica 14, 2 (2005), pp. 84–95.
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: Personal responsibility for women too? Hartz IV in the field of tension between individualization and compulsory communalization , in: Job-Gipfel! , spw 3, 2005, pp. 29-31.
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: Who pays the price for overcoming housewife marriage? In: Family – Partnership – Law 12 (2005), pp. 508–510.
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: Homoeheähnlich (comment on a decision of the SG Düsseldorf) In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Heft 5 (2005), pp. 528-532.
• Maria Wersig, Annegret Künzel, Sabine Berghahn: Marriage centering instead of civic solidarity of the sexes - where are the reforms in the German system of livelihoods leading? . In: Ursula Degener, Beate Rosenzweig (ed.): The renegotiation of social justice: Feminist analyzes and perspectives , VS Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-531-15055-3 , pp. 301-320.
• Sabine Berghahn, Maria Wersig: What is the welfare state looking for in closets and beds? On the debate about abuse of social benefits by “marriage-like” people living together In: Detlef Georgia Schulze, Sabine Berghahn, Frieder Otto Schulze (eds.): Politicization and depoliticization as a performative practice . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2006, pp. 100–117.
• Sabine Berghahn u. a .: Spousal maintenance and the principle of subsidiarity under social law as obstacles to consistent equality for women in securing livelihoods (PDF; 889 kB), project report (medium version), Freie Universität Berlin, January 2007
• Sabine Berghahn: The spouse's maintenance system - a concept for the 21st century? In: Sabine Berghahn (Ed.): Maintenance and livelihood security. Law and Reality in Germany , 2007, pp. 27–54.
• Sabine Berghahn: Constitutional Law and Constitutional Change. Interpretations to Art. 3 and Art. 6 of the Basic Law . In: Susanne Baer, ​​Julia Lepperhof (Eds.): Family and Equal Rights (working title) , Bielefeld, 2007, pp. 44–68.
• Sabine Berghahn: The promise of securing a livelihood as a “double bind” . In: Kirsten Scheiwe (ed.): Social security systems revisited. Securing livelihoods through social and family law and their gender dimension , Baden-Baden, 2007, pp. 67–83.
• Sabine Berghahn, Ulrike Schultz (Hrsg.): Legal manual for women and equality officers. Law from A to Z for women and equality officers in public administration, companies and advice centers (2 volumes), Verlag Dashöfer , 2013 (current status), ISBN 978-3-931832-44-5
• Sabine Berghahn: The “community of need” according to SGB II: Overcoming or consolidating the male breadwinner model? . In: Jürgen Klute , Sandra Kotlenga (ed.): Social and labor market policy according to Hartz : Five years of Hartz reforms; Inventory, analyzes, perspectives , Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940344-33-5 , pp. 143–168.
• Sabine Berghahn, Gesine Fuchs (eds.): Law as a feminist political strategy? Special issue of femina politica Vol. 21 (2) 2012 found.

Web links

• CV of Sabine Berghahn , FU Berlin
• Literature by and about Sabine Berghahn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Project "Spousal Maintenance and Spouse Subsidiarity as Obstacles to Equality". ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: fu-berlin.de 
2. ↑ Research project: Spousal support and the principle of subsidiarity under social law as obstacles to consistent equality of women in securing livelihoods. FU Berlin, January 31, 2007, accessed on July 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ "Values, Equality & Differences in Liberal Democracies", VEIL. Values, Equality and Differences in Liberal Democracies. Debates about Muslim Headscarves. ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Berghahn, Sabine; Rostock, Petra (ed.) (2008): The stuff of which conflicts are made. Debates about the headscarf in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Bielefeld: transcript (global - local Islam). ISBN 978-3-89942-959-6