Franziska Schutzbach

Franziska Schutzbach (* 1978 ) is a gender researcher and sociologist who lives in Switzerland .

Live and act

Franziska Schutzbach studied sociology , media studies and gender studies at the University of Basel and graduated in 2008 with a Magistra Artium . In 2019 she was awarded a dissertation on Generativity Politics at the University of Basel . Reproductive Health, Population, and Gender. The example of the World Health Organization promotes . She worked as a lecturer at the University of Basel, the Technical University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Her research, teaching and publications focus on reproductive politics and gender relations, right-wing populism and anti-feminism . Her book, published in 2018, deals with the rhetoric of the right . In her text Dominant masculinity and neo-reactionary world views in the pick-up artist scene , Schutzbach dealt with the “radicalization and politicization of the masculist scene”. She particularly examined the Pick-Up Artists, which started in the USA as a kind of self-help group for insecure men who wanted to learn to "conquer" women and are now active in large parts of the world in blogs and forums, but also offline . According to Inga Barthels in Tagesspiegel , Schutzbach documents how this group is increasingly working with right-wing national movements, and analyzes the connections between anti-gender discourses, anti-feminism and right-wing populism that can be observed throughout the western world.

She writes for the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart , is on the board of Terre des Femmes Switzerland and a member of the Basel-Stadt Equal Opportunities Commission . Schutzbach was in 2016 co-initiator of Twitter - Hashtags #SchweizerAufschrei , along the lines of #Aufschrei a broad public debate on Germany in sexual violence and sexual harassment triggered in Switzerland.

A post in her private blog from May 2016 resulted in a campaign by Weltwoche and Basler Zeitung against Schutzbach in November 2017 . Schutzbach had claimed that it would not work to push back right-wing national forces in Europe, namely the Swiss People's Party (SVP), "in a formal-democratic way". It therefore needs civil and “parliamentary disobedience”. For example, she suggested that other MPs should leave National Council meetings "in which an extreme right-wing opened their mouths" and "taxi companies and airlines should no longer transport right-wing nationalists".

Publications (selection)

Right-wing rhetoric: an overview of right-wing populist discourse strategies . Xanthippe, Zurich / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-905795-60-8 .
Dominant masculinity and reactionary worldviews in the pick-up artist scene . In: Feminist Studies 2018, pp. 305–321.
From anti-feminism to 'antigenderism' - a diagnosis of the times using the example of Switzerland . Together with Andrea Maihofer , in: Hark, Sabine ; Paula Villa (Ed.) (2015): (Anti-) genderism: Sexuality and gender as arenas of current political disputes . Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3144-9 .
Population, crisis, nation . In: Karin Hostettler, Sophie Vögele (ed.): This side of the imperial gender order. (Post-) colonial reflections on the West . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2343-7 , pp. 77-106