Barbara Duden (historian)

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Barbara Duden (* 27. August 1942 in Greifswald ) is a German medical historian , gender researcher and emeritus professor at the University of Hannover . She is considered a pioneer in the history of the body and was instrumental in establishing the body as an object of historical science.

Life

Barbara Duden is the daughter of the Mannheim lawyer Herdin Hans Duden , a grandson of Konrad Dudens . She spent her childhood with her twin sister Alexa Duden with her grandfather Paul Duden at Schliersee in Bavaria. She graduated from the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Frankfurt-Höchst in 1962 and studied history and English in Vienna and at the Technical University of Berlin from 1963 to 1970 .

Act

Barbara Duden was one of the feminist historians of the Second Women's Movement. In 1976 she worked at the first women's summer university at the Free University of Berlin and was co-founder of the women's magazine "Courage" , which played a special role in the then autonomous women's movement in West Germany.

In 1986 she received her doctorate in Berlin with the dissertation History under the Skin: An Eisenach Doctor and His Patients around 1730 . The subject of the work is Johann Storch (1681–1751), who left extensive records on the medical history of his patients and thus enabled information about the ideas of the body and the interior of the woman that were guiding principles for medical practice of his time. In German-language research, your study understood the body as a historically and culturally determined concept for the first time and is considered a key work in gender research.

From 1986 to 1990 Barbara Duden taught at various universities in the USA. She then worked at the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies in Hanover. In 1993 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on graphic representations of the unborn child between 1492 and 1799 in anatomical atlases. From 1997 she taught at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Hanover. Her research and teaching area includes cultural sociology , social and cultural historical research on women and gender, and the history of medicine . In 2012/2013 she was a fellow at the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes and had a teaching position at the University of Paris-Diderot on the subject of risk, risk-consciousness and the displacement of common sense perception . In the 2013/2014 winter semester, Barbara Duden took over the Käthe Leichter visiting professorship for women and gender studies at the University of Vienna.

Duden is a representative of socio-historical and cultural studies-oriented gender research on the historicity of the perception and self-perception of women. In their opinion, this is still shaped today by a scientific-rational discourse that emerged in the 18th century and dominated in the 19th century, which "disembodies" women and makes them socially instrumental. She also criticizes gender research that focuses entirely on discourse analysis and denies the effectiveness of the body.

Your medical history research is also understood as a medical criticism . She refers, among other things, to Ivan Illich and is one of the initiators of the Bremen Circle for Research on Proportionality (CROP), which tries to further develop Illich's questions.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • History under the skin. An Eisenach doctor and his patients around 1730. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987 ISBN 3-608-93113-9
  • The woman's body as a public place. On the misuse of the term life. (= Luchterhand Essay, 9). Luchterhand, Hamburg 1991 ISBN 3-630-87109-7 .
  • Anatomy of good hope. Images of the unborn person 1500–1800 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996 ISBN 3-608-91656-3
  • with Jürgen Schlumbohm and Jacques Gelis: Rituals of Birth. A cultural story . CH Beck, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-406-42080-X
  • The genes in the head - the fetus in the stomach. History of the female body . Offizin, Hannover 2002 ISBN 3-930345-33-1
  • with Silja Samerski and Kirsten Vogeler: The faceless patient. How people disappear behind data . Mabuse Verlag, Frankfurt 2014 ISBN 978-3-86321-184-4

As editor

  • with Uta von Winterfeld and Adelheid Biesecker: From interjection to counterpoint. Women - Science - Nature. A women's congress. Kleine Verlags-GmbH, Bielefeld 1997 ISBN 3-89370-247-4
  • with Jürgen Schlumbohm and Patrice Veit: History of the Unborn. On the empirical and scientific history of pregnancy. (= Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, 170). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2002 ISBN 3-525-35182-8
  • with Dorothea Noeres: On the trail of the body in a technogenic world. (= Series of publications by the International Women's University «Technology and Culture», 4). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002 ISBN 3-8100-3310-3
  • Story in stories. A historical reader. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003 ISBN 3-593-37252-5

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen Nolte: Barbara Duden: History under the skin. In: Martina Löw, Bettina Mathes (Ed.): Key works in gender research. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, ISBN 3-531-13886-3 , p. 226ff.
  2. ↑ Gabriele Goettle: From the disappearance of the senses. Visit to the body historian Barbara Duden. In: Taz. November 28, 2005.
  3. ↑ Visiting professors at the University of Vienna
  4. ↑ Duden, Barbara: Frauen- »Körper«, in: Ruth Becker u. Beate Kortendiek (Ed.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, methods, empiricism, 2., ext. u. actual Ed., Wiesbaden 2008 (first 2004), pp. 593–607, here p. 601
  5. ↑ The winners of the Prize Basker, American Anthropological Society


personal data
SURNAME Duden, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald