Birgit Bütow

Birgit Bütow (* 1961 in Kleinmachnow ) is a German sociologist and social work scientist who researches and teaches in particular on issues relating to girls and women.

Bütow studied sociology at the University of Leipzig , passed the diploma examination in 1986 and received his doctorate in 1990 . Then she worked at the German Youth Institute in Munich. Since 1994 she has been teaching as a professor at the Ernst Abbe University in Jena . In 2005 she received her habilitation from the TU Dresden for educational sciences with a focus on social pedagogy . In addition to the University of Applied Sciences in Jena, she teaches at the University of Marburg ( private lecturer ) and the University of Zurich ( visiting professor ).

From 2000 to 2005, Bütow was chairwoman of Pro Familia , the Thuringian regional association.

Fonts (selection)

• Strange Eastern women. Women's emancipation in the GDR and the new federal states (as published by Heidi Stecker), Bielefeld: Kleine, 1994, ISBN 3-89370-188-5
• Girls in cliques. Socio-spatial construction processes of gender in female adolescence , Weinheim; Munich: Juventa-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7799-1374-7
• Social work after the socio-educational century: Position determinations of social work in the post-welfare state (as ed.), Opladen: Budrich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86649-112-0
• Social work and gender. Challenges beyond universalization and essentialization (as edited by Chantal Munsch), Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89691-234-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Bütow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birgit Bütow (Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena)