Andrea Maihofer

Andrea Maihofer (born February 9, 1953 ) is a German philosopher and sociologist with a focus on critical social theory and gender theory and research . She is professor of gender studies and director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel .

Life

Andrea Maihofer studied philosophy, German language and literature and education in Mainz, Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main. She did her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main and qualified as a professor there in sociology. Since 2001 she has been Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel. Since 2002 she has also headed the Basel Gender Graduate School. From 2004 to 2007 she was the head of the SUC cooperation project Gender Studies Switzerland , the aim of which is to establish gender research at BA / MA and PhD level in Switzerland.

2010–2018 she was President of the Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF). Since 2018 she has headed the swissuniversities think tank “Gender and Diversity” and the swissuniversities doctoral program “Inter-university doctoral program Gender Studies”.

Research priorities

The focus of research and teaching is gender theory , research on men / masculinity, change and persistence of gender and gender relations, family research, changing the gender arrangements in the family, social theory and gender research as well as moral, legal and constitutional theory .

Fonts (selection)

As a (co-) author

• Change of family. Literature study (together with T. Böhnisch and A. Wolf). Edition working paper, No. 48, Future of Society, Hans Böckler Foundation (ed.), Düsseldorf 2001.
• The right with Marx. On the dialectical structure of justice, human rights and law , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1992, ISBN 3-7890-2505-4 (also dissertation Frankfurt am Main 1987).
• Gender as a way of existence. Power, morality, law and gender difference . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-927164-21-6 (also habilitation thesis Frankfurt am Main 1994).
• On Carol Gilligan's theses on a "female" view of morality. Socio-ecological working papers (AP 36), Research Group Social Ecology, Frankfurt / M. 1987.

As (co-) editor

• with Alex Demirović and Susanne Lettow: Emancipation. On the history and topicality of a political term . Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-89691-282-4 .
• with B. Liebig / M. Dupuis / Th.-H. Ballmer-Cao (ed.): Gender Studies in Training and the World of Work. The example of Switzerland, Zurich 2009.
• with R. Wecker (ed.), figurationen, gender literature culture: reproduction / reproduction , issue 2, special print, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003.
• with C. Burgsmüller / M. Frommel / U. Gerhard / B. Laubach / R. Walch (ed.), Feminist Studies extra, Women for a New Constitution , 1991.
• with U. Gerhard / M. Jansen / P. Schmid / I. Schultz (ed.), Difference and Equality. Human rights have (no) one gender, Frankfurt / M. 1990.

Essays

• Change and persistence of hegemonic masculinity and the limits of the concept of Caring Masculinities, in: Scholz, Sylka / Heilmann, Andreas (eds.): Caring Masculinities? Munich, oekom, pp. 63-78.
• Freedom - Self-Determination - Autonomy, in: Baer, ​​Susanne / Sacksofsky, Ute (Ed.): Autonomy in Law - measured according to gender theory, Baden-Baden 2018, pp. 1–31.
• More than equal rights! To a new relationship between freedom and equality. In: Bargetz, Brigitte / Kreisky, Eva / Ludwig, Gundula (eds.): Endurance struggles - Feminist diagnoses and strategies. Campus, Frankfurt, 2017, pp. 67–78.
• “Secularism - What Next? An essay ”, in: Freiburg Journal for Gender Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2017, pp. 93–110.
• "At last! It took you a long time! " - Discussions on women's suffrage with contemporary witnesses from Basel (together with Noëmi Crain Merz), in: Das Basler Frauenstimmrecht - The long way to political equality from 1966. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2016, pp. 175–202.
• Epilogue, in: Basler Frauenstimmrecht - The long road to political equality from 1966. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2016, pp. 279–286.
• Sexism - a controversial term. Plea for a new appropriation (together with Dominique Grisard). In: C. Scheidegger / D. Stump (ed.): Sexist messages in language, text, images, advertising and film. Wettingen, 2016, pp. 11–37.
• Resisting Change: A Critical Analysis of Media Responses to Research on Gender Equality. In: B. Liebig / K. Gottschall / B. Sauer (ed.): Gender Equality. Policies and Practices in Switzerland. Leverkusen, 2016, pp. 241–257.
• Family? What's this?. In: Sozialalmanach 2016, Caritas-Verlag, Luzern, 2016, pp. 101–118.
• “I'm fine!” - Health ideas from men in Switzerland. Results from an empirical project (together with N. Wehner, D. Baumgarten, F. Luck, E. Zemp). In: Freiburg Journal for Gender Research, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2015, pp. 33–49.
• Gender inequalities in training and occupational trajectories of young adults in Switzerland (together with N. Wehner, K. Schwiter, S. Hupka-Brunner). In: Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland (ed.): Career orientation and gender. Weinheim and Basel, 2015, pp. 23–38.
• From anti-feminism to 'anti-genderism'. A time diagnostic consideration using the example of Switzerland (together with F. Schutzbach). In: S. Hark / P.-I. Villa (ed.): Anti-genderism. Sexuality and gender as sites of current political disputes. Bielefeld, 2015, pp. 201–217
• Socialization and gender (with the assistance of D. Baumgarten). In: K. Hurrelmann et al. (Ed.): Handbuch Sozialisierungforschung, Weinheim / Basel, 2015, pp. 630–658.
• Why are nurses and electricians still rare? Gender segregation in the training and career paths of young adults in Switzerland (together with K. Schwiter, S. Hupka-Brunner, N. Wehner, E. Huber, S. Kanji, M. Bergman). In: Swiss Journal for Sociology, Volume 40, No. 3, 2014, pp. 401–428.
• Discipline - discipline - habitualization. In: B. Engler (ed.): Discipline - Discipline. 28th Colloquium (2013) of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. Friborg 2014, pp. 57–75.
• Sarah Ahmed. Collective feelings - elements of the western hegemonic emotional regime. In: A. Baier / C. Binswanger / J. Häberlein / YE Nay / A. Zimmerman (ed.): Affect and gender. An introductory anthology. Vienna, 2014, pp. 253–272.
• Familial ways of life between change and persistence. A time diagnostic interim consideration. In: C. Behnke / D. Lengersdorf / S. Scholz (Ed.): Knowledge - Method - Gender: grasping what is unquestionably given. Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 313–334.
• Emilie Linder. A woman's life in the first half of the 19th century (Basel / Munich). In: P. Braun / Ch. Gampp: Emilie Linder. 1797-1867. Painter, patron, art collector. Basel 2013, pp. 16–45.
• Multiple crisis and the crisis of gender relations (together with A. Demirovic). In: H. Nickel / A. Heilmann (ed.): Crisis, Criticism, Alliances. Work and gender sociological perspectives. Weinheim / Basel 2013, pp. 30–48.
• Reflections on a materialistic (de) constructivist understanding of normativity. In: R. Jaeggi / D. Loick (ed.): After Marx. Philosophy, Criticism, Practice. Berlin 2013, pp. 164–191.
• Philosophy as an anti-metaphysical attitude towards the world. In: D. Grisard / U. Hunter / T. König (ed.): To be different. Thinking about gender and difference. Sulzbach / Taunus 2013, pp. 307-319.
• Pierre Bourdieu. The theory of male rule as the keystone of a social theory (together with U. Jäger, T. König). In: H. Kahlert / C. Weinbach (ed.): Contemporary social theories and gender research. Invitation to dialogue. Wiesbaden 2012, pp. 15–36.
• Virginia Woolf. On the precariousness of feminist criticism. In: B. Hünersdorf / J. Hartmann (ed.): What is criticism and why do we criticize in social work? Disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. Wiesbaden 2012, pp. 281-301.
• Why do some men become fathers and others not? Masculinity and the desire to have children (together with D. Baumgarten, K. Kassner, N. Wehner). In: H. Walter / A. Eickhorst (ed.): The father handbook. Theory, research, practice, Gießen 2012, Psychosozial-Verlag, pp. 415–443.
• Dialectic of the Enlightenment - The emergence of the modern idea of ​​equality, the discourse of the qualitative gender difference and the racial theories. In: T. Debus / R. Kreide / M. Krennerich (ed.): Journal for Human Rights. FrauenMenschenrechte, Nuremberg 2009, pp. 20–36.
• Gender research as an innovative knowledge practice. In: B. Liebig / M. Dupuis / Th.-H. Ballmer-Cao / A. Maihofer (Ed.): Gender Studies in Training and the World of Work. The example of Switzerland, Zurich 2009, pp. 44–64.
• Gender in Motion. Social Transformation Processes - Upheavals in Gender Relations? A sketch of the problem. In: D. Grisard / J. Häberlein / A. Kaiser / S. Saxer (ed.), Gender in Motion. The construction of gender in space and narration, Frankfurt / M. 2007, pp. 218-315.
• From women's to gender research - a significant change in perspective alongside current challenges to gender research. In: B. Aulenbacher u. a. (Ed.), MännerFrauenGeschildenforschung: state of the art, Münster 2006, pp. 64–77.
• Dialectic of Religious Tolerance: Nathan the Wise and the Consequences. In: G. Pfleiderer / EW Stegemann (ed.), Religion and Respect. Contributions to a Tense Relationship, Zurich 2006, pp. 39–41.
• Inter-, transdisciplinarity and post-disciplinarity. A plea against the disillusionment. In: H. Kahlert / B. Thiessen / I. Weller (ed.), Thinking outside the box - changing structures. Gender Studies Between Disciplines, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 185–202.
• Gender as a social construction - an intermediate consideration. In: U. Helduser / D. Marx / T. Paulitz / K. Pühl (ed.), Under construction? Constructivist Perspectives in Feminist Theory and Practice, Frankfurt / M. 2004, pp. 33-43.
• What is changing in the current family change? In: J. Beehorst / A. Demirovic / M. Guggemos (ed.), Critical Theory in Social Structural Change, Frankfurt / M. 2004, pp. 384-408.
• Gender as a hegemonic discourse and a socio-cultural mode of existence - recent considerations on the way to a critical theory of gender. In: J. Hartmann (ed.), Grenzverwischungen. Diverse ways of life in the gender, sexuality and generational discourse, series of social and cultural studies study texts, Volume 9, Innsbruck 2004, pp. 33–40.
• “This is how it turned out” - practical norms of family division of labor (together with T. König). In: A. Retzer / U. Clement / HR Fischer (ed.), Family Dynamics. Interdisciplinary journal for system-oriented practice and research, issue 3, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 209–232.
• From women's to gender research. Fashionable trend or a significant change of perspective? (revised and expanded version). In: P. Döge / K. Kassner / G. Schambach (ed.), Schaustelle Gender - Current Contributions to Social Science Gender Studies, Bielefeld 2004, pp. 11–28.
• Gender and socialization. In: F. Benseler u. a. (Ed.), Considering Knowledge Ethics, Paderborn 2002, pp. 13–74.
• Dialectic of the Enlightenment - The emergence of the modern idea of ​​equality, the discourse of the qualitative gender difference and the racial theories in the 18th century. In: St. Hobuß u. a. (Ed.), The Other Half of Globalization. Human rights, economy and mediality from a feminist perspective, Frankfurt / M. 2001, pp. 113-132.
• Gender Difference - An Obsolete Category? In: H. Uerlings / K. Wood / V. Schmidt-Linsenhoff (ed.), The subject and the others. Interculturality and Gender Difference from the 18th Century to the Present, Study Series Romania, Vol. 16. Sonderdruck, Berlin 2001, pp. 55–72.
• The Querelle des femmes: Is it just a literary genre or a specific form of social debate about the nature and status of the sexes? In: H. Wunder / G. Engel (ed.), Gender Perspectives. Research on the early modern period, Frankfurt / M. 1998, pp. 262-272.
• Christine de Pizan. Essay on a fascination. In: I. Mues (ed.), What moves women and what moves women, Frankfurt / M. 1998, pp. 47-70.
• Replica of the replicas by Gertrud Nunner-Winkler and Herta Nagl-Docekal. In: D. Horster (ed.), Female morality - a myth? Frankfurt / M. 1998, pp. 154-161.
• The myth of the one moral. On Gertrud Nunner-Winkler's criticism of Gilligan's theses of the two morals. In: D. Horster (ed.), Female Moral - a Myth ?, Frankfurt / M. 1998, pp. 99-161.
• Care. In: AM Jaggar / IM Young (ed.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Oxford 1998, pp. 383-393.
• Equality and / or difference? About the course of a debate. In: E. Kreisky / B. Sauer (ed.), Gender Relations in the Context of Political Transformation, PVS special issue 28/1997, pp. 155–176.
• Political Possibilities of Feminist Theory. A conversation. In: Die Philosophin, 11/1995, pp. 94-105.
• Gender as a way of existence. Some critical remarks on recent attempts to re-understand "gender". In: Institute for Social Research Frankfurt (ed.), Gender Relations and Politics, Frankfurt / M. 1994, pp. 168-185.
• Gender as a hegemonic discourse. Approaches to a critical theory of "gender". In: Th. Wobbe / G. Lindemann (ed.), Axes of thought. On the theoretical and institutional talk of gender, Frankfurt / M. 1994, pp. 236-263.
• Equal rights in difference or equality and difference. To the criticism of the prevailing understanding of equality. In: J. Gebhardt / R. Schmalz-Bruns (ed.), Constitution - State - Democracy, Baden-Baden 1994, pp. 345–363.
• Reconstruction of Gilligan's theses on a "female" view of morality as a critique of prevailing morality. In: Chr. Kulke / E. Scheich (ed.), Twilight of Reason. The dialectic of the Enlightenment from the perspective of women, Pfaffenweiler 1992, pp. 127-137.
• Universalism versus relativism / particularism? In: M. Pellikaan-Engel (ed.), Against Patriarchal Thinking. A Future Without Discrimination ?, VIth Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) 1992, VU University Press 1992, pp. 155-161.
• Metacritic. History makes people just as people make history. In: Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften 3/2 1992, pp. 252–257.
• The civilization of male warriors is still needed. Some critical remarks from a feminist perspective on democracy and the public sphere. In: links 11/91, pp. 29–30.
• Equality only for equals ?. In: U. Gerhard / M. Jansen / A. Maihofer / P. Schmid / I. Schultz (ed.), Difference and Equality. Human rights have (no) one gender, Frankfurt / M. 1990, pp. 351-367.
• The exclusion of women from human rights. The human rights declaration of 1789 from a feminist perspective. In: Die Neue Gesellschaft, Frankfurter Hefte 7, 1989, pp. 626–636.
• On the dilemma of current legal policy. In: Fenomenologia e società 1/1989, pp. 107–122.
• On the dilemma of GREEN legal policy. In: Kritische Justiz 4/1988, pp. 432–441.
• Approaches to the Critique of Moral Universalism. On the moral theoretical discussion of Gilligan's theses on a "female" moral concept. In: Feministische Studien 1, 1988, pp. 32-52.
• Human rights have no gender? A plea for their reformulation. In: Operations 4, 1988, pp. 79-92.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrea Maihofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence at the University of Basel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Maihofer Andrea | Gender studies. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .