Barbara Rendtorff

Barbara Rendtorff (* 1951 in Heidelberg ) is a German sociologist and educational scientist, professor of school education and gender studies . She was a co-founder of the Frankfurt women's school.

Career

Barbara Rendtorff studied pedagogy, sociology and history and graduated with a diploma in sociology as well as the first and second state exams for teaching at grammar schools (secondary level II). Already active in the new women's movement during his studies, from 1979 onwards Rendtorff was committed to the establishment of an autonomous educational institution for women. With the establishment of the Frankfurt Women's School in 1983, she began to practice women's education and designed the women's school's program for over a decade together with the project management team.

In 1985 she was recognized for her work entitled Feminine Principle - Feminine Practice. PhD in the foundations for feminist educational work at the University of Frankfurt.

In 1997 she returned to the university and completed her habilitation with a study on the importance of gender difference in psychoanalytic concepts in the educational science department at the University of Osnabrück with the venia legendi for general pedagogy. She held visiting and visiting professorships at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Halle , Salzburg and Cologne .

From 2008 to 2018 she was professor for school education and gender research (network professorship) at the University of Paderborn , associated with the scientific management of the Center for Gender Studies . Since October 2018, Rendtorff has been a senior professor at the Institute for General Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

She was a member (and chairwoman for several years) of the women's and gender studies section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE). She was also a co-founder and member of the advisory board of the yearbook Women and Gender Studies in Education .

Feminist Practice: The Frankfurt Women's School

The Frankfurt women's school, founded by Barbara Rendtorff together with the sociologist Dörthe Jung and the psychologists Barbara Köster and Iris Nikulka, was a typical women's and educational project for the 1980s. The range of programs included courses, discussion groups and workshops on specific life situations for women, such as mothers and single parents, the unemployed and women starting up a business. The users of these offers were of different ages and came from all backgrounds. A second focus of the women's school was the preoccupation with feminist theories on femininity and gender relations , which was primarily aimed at activists of the women's movement . The lectures that arose in the context of numerous conferences and events on the feminist theoretical discussion , including by international speakers such as Rosi Braidotti , Judith Butler , Luce Irigaray or Luisa Muraro , were mostly published in the publication series Material Volume - Facets of Feminist Theory Formation from 1987 to 2002.

Similar offers of autonomous women's projects arose in Cologne, Hamburg and West Berlin; the Frankfurt women's school was one of the largest in Germany. It existed until 2013.

Feminist Theory in Education

Barbara Rendtorff's work focuses on theories of gender and gender relations, the transmission of gender images and stereotypes in childhood, youth and school as well as gender aspects in educational theories and institutions. In addition to numerous publications, conferences and events, she led various research projects at the University of Paderborn, for example the projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , Current Discrepancies in Gender Concepts in Education - a Danger to Equal Opportunities (2013-2015) and the research project on the subject of sexualized people Assaults and Schools - Prevention and Intervention (2012–2015).

Private

Barbara Rendtorff and her partner Heiner Goebbels have a son and a daughter.

Publications

Books (selection)

• Barbara Rendtorff, Birgit Riegraf, Elke Kleinau: Education - Gender - Society . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-407-25743-7 .
• Claudia Mahs, Barbara Rendtorff, Thomas Rieske (eds.): Education, violence, sexuality. On the relationship between gender and violence in upbringing and education . Barbara Budrich Verlag, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-8474-0705-8 .
• Claudia Mahs, Barbara Rendtorff, Anne Warmuth (Eds.): Emphasize - Ignore - Counteracting? For the pedagogical handling of gender types . Beltz-Juventa publishing house, Weinheim 2015.
• Barbara Rendtorff, Birgit Riegraf, Claudia Mahs and for the Gender Equality Monika Schröttle (Ed.): Knowledge, Knowledge, Intervention. Gender Studies Perspectives . Beltz-Juventa publishing house, Weinheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-7799-3301-4 .
• Barbara Rendtorff, Birgit Riegraf, Claudia Mahs: 40 Years of Feminist Debates. Summary and outlook . Beltz-Juventa publishing house, Weinheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-7799-2931-4 .
• Elke Kleinau, Barbara Rendtorff: Difference, Diversity and Heterogeneity in Educational Discourses . Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8474-0331-9 .
• Elke Kleinau, Barbara Rendtorff (Hrsg.): 'Own' and 'different' - boundaries and entanglements. Gender research and psychoanalytic pedagogy in dialogue. Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2012.
• Vera Moser, Barbara Rendtorff (Ed.): Risky Lives? Gender Orders in Reflexive Modernity. (= Yearbook Women and Gender Studies in Educational Science. Volume 8). Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86649-567-8 .
• Barbara Rendtorff, Claudia Mahs, Verena Wecker (eds.): Gender research. Theories, theses, introductory topics . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2011.
• Barbara Rendtorff: Education of the sexes . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021137-7 .
• Barbara Rendtorff: Gender and symbolic castration. About body, matrix, death and knowledge . Ulrike Helmer publishing house, Königstein / Taunus 1996.
• Barbara Rendtorff, Iris Nikulka, Barbara Köster, Dörthe Jung: About female desire and sexual difference and the lack in the prevailing discourse. Autonomous women's education using the example of the Frankfurt women's school . Society for social science research and education for women, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Barbara Rendtorff: Feminine principle - feminine practice. Basics for a feminist educational work . Focus Verlag, Gießen 1985. (2nd edition. 1990.)

Articles (selection)

• From the history of feminist theory and practice - the work of the Frankfurt women's school. A contribution to historical memory. In: Feminist Studies. 1/2018.
• What can gender studies learn from psychoanalysis? And vice versa? In: Charlotte Busch, Britta Dobben, Max Rudel, Tom David Uhlig (eds.): The crack through sex. Feminist Contributions to Psychoanalysis . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2018.
• Doing gender revisited. In: Scholand, Barbara, Kampshoff, Marita (eds.): School as a field - teaching as a stage - gender as practice . Beltz-Juventa publishing house, Weinheim 2017.
• Sexualizations as elements of defense against foreigners. In: Feminist Studies. 2/2017.
• Gender-related markings and disambiguation. In: Nadine Balzter, Florian Klenk, Olga Zitzelsberger (Eds.): Queering MINT: Impulses for a deconstructive teacher education . Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen 2016.
• Contradictions and inconsistencies - On the current approach to gender in the context of education In: Katharina Walgenbach, Anna Stach (ed.): Gender in social transformation processes . Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen 2015.
• Thematization or de-thematization - How can we deal with gender aspects in the context of schools? In: Juliette Wedl, Annette Bartsch (Eds.): Teaching Gender? For the reflective handling of gender in school lessons and in teacher training . transcript, Bielefeld 2015.
• Heterogeneity and difference. About the trivialization of terms and the loss of their productivity. In: Hans-Christoph Koller et al. (Hrsg.): Heterogenität - To the boom of an educational concept . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014.
• Rousseau's Sophie. In: Simon Bunke et al. (Ed.): Rousseaus Welten . Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.
• Reflections on Sexuality, Power and Gender. In: Werner Thole et al. (Ed.): Sexualized violence, power and pedagogy . Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Weinheim 2012.
• 'Walter has a sausage ...' - Sexual other. In: Elke Kleinau, Barbara Rendtorff (Hrsg.): Eigen und anders. Contributions from women's and gender studies and psychoanalytic pedagogy . Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen 2012.
• What children play when they play - gender-typical aspects in children's play. In: Marcel Klaas et al. (Ed.): Kinderkultur (en). VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Rendtorff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Barbara Rendtorff's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Authors: Rendtorff, Barbara. literaturkritik.de , accessed on November 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Barbara Rendtorff: Feminine principle - feminine practice. Basics for a feminist educational work . Focus Verlag, Giessen 1985.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Prof. Dr. Barbara Rendtorff. University of Paderborn, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Barbara Rendtorff: Gender and symbolic castration. About body, matrix, death and knowledge . Ulrike Helmer publishing house, Königstein / Taunus 1996.
5. ↑ Phantasm of Completeness. A study of the importance of gender difference. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 23, 1997. Retrieved October 25, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Prof. (ret.) Dr. Barbara Rendtorff. Professor, Center for Gender Studies (ZG), University of Paderborn. Network Women's and Gender Research NRW, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Senior Prof. Dr. Barbara Rendtorff. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Barbara Rendtorff, Iris Nikulka, Barbara Köster, Dörthe Jung: About female desire and sexual difference and lack in the prevailing discourse. Autonomous women's education using the example of the Frankfurt women's school . Material volume 7 - Facets of feminist theory formation, Association of Social Science Research and Education for Women, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
9. ↑ Material Volume - Facets of Feminist Theory Formation. Volume 1-26. Frankfurter Frauenschule, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
10. ↑ To the concept of the Frankfurter Frauenschule: Barbara Rendtorff: From the history of feminist theory and practice - The work of the Frankfurter Frauenschule. A contribution to historical memory. In: Feminist Studies. 2018, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
11. ^ Wolfgang Grün: Weibermacht, Weiberlist . In: The time . 4th January 1985.
12. ↑ Women's school closes after 32 years. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. December 5, 2013, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Research projects Prof. Dr. Barbara Rendtorff. University of Paderborn, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Homepage. Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW. Network Women's and Gender Research NRW, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
15. ↑ On gender stereotypes in school see: Claudia Mahs, Barbara Rendtorff, Anne Warmuth (Eds.): Betonen - Ignorieren - Gegensteuern? For the pedagogical handling of gender types . Beltz-Juventa publishing house, Weinheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-7799-3259-8 .
16. ↑ Heiner Goebbels. Munzinger Archive, 2019, accessed on October 25, 2019 .