Birgit Geissler
Birgit Geissler (born January 2, 1949 in Tann (Rhön) ) is a German sociologist and professor at Bielefeld University .
Work areas
Her main focus is labor market sociology ; Her topics also include aspects of the sociology of gender and time . It focuses in particular on service work, in particular household-related services, as well as employment biographies, life planning and life course policy and the structuring of time in work and lifestyle.
Together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger , she published research results on gender and care arrangements, life prospects for women and their decisions for part-time work and other work models, as well as on family policy and sociocultural context in international comparison.
Fonts (selection)
- Birgit Geissler, Katja Pohlheim: Household services - the potential need: The use of paid services in the private household , VS Verlag, August 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16515-8
- Claudia Gather, Birgit Geissler, Maria S. Rerrich: World market private household. Paid Housework in Global Change , Westphalian Steam Boat, November 2007, ISBN 978-3-89691-215-2
- Carlo Knöpfel, Birgit Geissler, Ludwig Gärtner, Albert Schnyder: Sozialalmanach 2002: Der flexibilisiert Mensch , Caritas-Verlag, January 2002, ISBN 978-3-85592-070-9
- Birgit Geissler, Friederike Maier, Birgit Pfau-Effinger: FrauenArbeitsMarkt , Edition Sigma, 1998, ISBN 978-3-89404-626-2
- Mechtild Oechsle , Birgit Geissler: The unequal equality , Leske + Budrich, 1998, ISBN 978-3-8100-2156-4
- Birgit Geissler, Mechtild Oechsle , Gudrun Braemer: Life planning of young women. On the contradicting modernization of female résumés , Beltz Deutscher Studienverlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-89271-692-1
- Lutz Leisering, Birgit Geissler, Ulrich Mergner: Modern life courses in transition. Job - Family - Social Aid - Illness , Deutscher Studienverlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-89271-425-5
- Hella Baumeister, Doris Bollinger, Birgit Geissler: Professional biography and job market crisis , VS Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-8100-0913-5
- Henri Bents, Hans-Hermann Braune, Birgit Geissler, Rainer Zoll : The unemployed, I could shoot them all. Workers in the Economic Crisis , Bund-Verlag, April 1988, ISBN 978-3-7663-0848-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Prof. Geissler Home, Bielefeld University. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Geissler, Birgit |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tann (Rhön) |