Birgit Sauer

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Birgit Sauer (born August 2, 1957 in Brackenheim ) is a political scientist and professor at the University of Vienna . One focus of her work is gender research in political science. From 2001 to 2003 she was chairwoman of the Austrian Society for Political Science .

Life

After studying to be a teacher in political science and German language and literature in Tübingen and Berlin and completing her legal clerkship , Sauer became a research assistant in the political science department at the Free University of Berlin in 1987 . It was there in 1993 with a dissertation on political myths of a socialist society with an analysis of political interpretation patterns in days and holidays of DDR doctorate .

After visiting professorships at Konkuk University in Seoul and the University of Klagenfurt and working as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg , she joined the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna in 1996. From 2001 to 2006 she was initially an associate professor, and since then has been working as a university professor at the Institute for Political Science. Since 2004 she has been the spokesperson for the Gender Kolleg at the University of Vienna.

Sauer's other teaching assignments, each lasting one semester outside the University of Vienna, were the "International Visiting Professorship for Women and Gender Studies" at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz and then a visiting professorship in the USA at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton .

Her main research interests are governance and gender , politics and culture, politics of gender relations, and state and institutional theories .

In addition to her research and teaching activities, Sauer was a board member of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy from 1992 to 2000 and was co-editor of the association's yearbooks for several years. From 1991 to 1993 she was the spokesperson for the Political and Gender Working Group in the German Association for Political Science ; from 1994 to 2001 she was a member of the advisory board; In 2001 she became a member of the Ethics Committee. She has been on the advisory board of Femina Politica magazine since 2012 . From 1996 to 1999 she was a board member and from 2001 to 2003 chairwoman of the Austrian Society for Political Science.

She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the yearbook for research on Islamophobia and has a teaching position at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna .

Awards

Publications (selection)

Monographs

as an author:

  • Gender and politics. Institutional conditions, hindrances and opportunities (= old and new inequalities, volume 1). wvb , Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936846-89-8 .
  • The ashes of the sovereign. State and Democracy in the Gender Debate (= Politics of Gender Relations , Volume 16). Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 2001, ISBN 3-593-36743-2 (Habilitation thesis University of Vienna 2000, 360 pages).
  • Myths of a real socialist society, a contribution to the analysis of political patterns of interpretation in festivals and holidays in the GDR . Microfiche edition 6 microfiches: 24x, Berlin 1992, DNB 941636895 (dissertation FU Berlin 1993, 470 pages).

as (co-) editor:

  • with Roland Atzmüller et al. (Ed.): Capitalism in Transformation. Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2019, ISBN 978-1-78897-423-3 .
  • with Katharina Pühl: Social analysis critical of capitalism. Queer feminist positions. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89691-107-0 .
  • with Brigitte Bargetz and Gundula Ludwig: Governmentality and Gender. Political theory following Michel Foucault. Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-39968-3 .
  • with Gundula Ludwig, and Stefanie Wöhl: State and Gender. Foundations and current challenges of feminist state theory. Nomos , Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-5034-7 .
  • (with Ute Behning) What does gender mainstreaming do? Approaches to evaluation through policy analyzes. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37608-3 .
  • (with Sieglinde Rosenberger ) Political Science and Gender. Concepts - Links - Perspectives. WUV / ( UTB ), Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2479-1 .
Essays
  • Limiting and delimiting the political: Gender studies in political science. In: Hadumod Bußmann , Renate Hof (Ed.): Genus. Gender studies in the cultural and social sciences. A manual. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-520-82201-7 , pp. 366-401.
  • Gender democracy . Ways out of androcracy ? In: SOWI. Journal for History, Politics, Economy and Culture, issue 3/2005, pp. 15–26.
  • (together with Ute Behning) From criticism to analysis: the problem of evaluating gender mainstreaming. In: Ute Behning, Birgit Sauer (Ed.): What does gender mainstreaming do? Evaluation through policy analysis. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 2005, ISBN 3-593-37608-3 , pp. 11-25.
  • (together with Katharina Pühl) Gender relations in neoliberalism . Construction, transformation and feminist-political perspectives. In: Urte Helduser, Daniela Marx, Tanja Paulitz, Katharina Pühl (eds.): Under construction? Constructivist Perspectives in Feminist Theory and Research Practice. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 2004, ISBN 3-593-37539-7 , pp. 165-179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b dieuniversitaet-online.at: V.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Sauer . Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  2. derStandard.at - Women's Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 for Valie Export, Käthe Leichter State Award to political scientist Birgit Sauer . APA notification dated October 19, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015.
  3. The parliamentary week from November 6 to 12, 2017: Awarding of the Lupac Science Prize . OTS notification dated November 3, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017.