Gisela Bock (historian)

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Gisela Bock (born July 28, 1942 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian . She is a pioneer in women's and gender history .

life and work

Gisela Bock studied history in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin , Paris and Rome . After completing her doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on the history of political ideas in the early modern period using the example of Tommaso Campanella , she was a research assistant for the history of North America and then National Socialism at the Free University of Berlin. After her habilitation in 1984 at the Technical University of Berlin, she worked as a professor at the European University Institute in Florence and from 1989 to 1997 as a professor of gender history at the University of Bielefeld . From 1997 until her retirement in 2007 she was Professor of Modern History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

In the 1970s Gisela Bock was involved in the women's movement . She was one of the initiators of the “Lohn für Hausarbeit” campaign, which sparked a fundamental discussion on the gender division of labor, is one of the pioneers of feminist criticism of science in the German-speaking world, and was instrumental in the development and institutionalization of women's and gender history.

Her study of the social, political and intellectual history of women in European history. From the Middle Ages to the present (2000 and 2005) has been translated into seven languages. In her book Zwangssterilization im Nationalozialismus (1986), a study of 400,000 forced sterilizations of - according to the National Socialists - "hereditary inferior" men and women, she takes the view that the gender policy of National Socialism was shaped by racial politics as well as vice versa. In the volume Genocide and Gender. Jewish Women in the National Socialist Camp System (2005), which emerged from a conference that she organized in 2003, brings together the results of research on gender research and Nazi research from twenty years. In 2014 her book Gender Stories of Modern Times was published. Ideas, politics, practice gathering important studies new and old. In the same year a commemorative publication for Gisela Bock was published: Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders , edited by Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug .

Together with Ida Blom, Karen Offen and others, Bock founded the International Federation for Research in Women's History in 1987 , and with Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder she founded the working group on historical women and gender research in 1989/90 and the history and gender series at Campus Verlag in 1992 .

In 2018 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class by the Federal President .

Fonts (selection)

German

  • Thomas Campanella. Political interest and philosophical speculation (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome , Volume 46), Niemeyer, Tübingen 1974, ISBN 3-484-80069-0 (also: Dissertation, FU Berlin, Faculty 13 - History, 1971).
  • The Other Labor Movement in the United States 1905–1922. The Industrial Workers of the World , Trikont, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-88167-005-X .
  • with Barbara Duden : work out of love - love as work. On the origin of housework in capitalism , in: Women and Science. Contributions to the Berlin Summer University for Women July 1976 , Courage, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-921710-00-6 , pp. 118-199.
  • Forced sterilization under National Socialism. Studies on race politics and women's politics (= writings of the Central Institute for Social Science Research of the Free University of Berlin , Volume 48), Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11759-9 ; Reprint: Verlagshaus Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-86991-090-1 (also: habilitation thesis, TU Berlin 1984).
  • History, women's history, gender history , in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 14, 1988, pp. 364–391.
  • Just normal women. Perpetrators, victims, followers and spectators in National Socialism , in: Kirsten Heinsohn u. a. (Ed.): Between career and persecution , Campus, Frankfurt 1997, pp. 245–277.
  • Editor together with Margarete Zimmermann : Die European Querelle des Femmes. Gender debates since the 15th century , Metzler, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Women in European History , CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-406-52795-1 . Revised new edition, Beck'sche Reihe 2005. Translations: Italian 2001, 2003, 2006; spanish 2001; english 2002; Romanian 2002, Slovenian 2004; Turkish 2005, Serbian 2005.
  • National Socialism and Women , in: Bernd Sösemann (Hrsg.): National Socialism and German Society. Introduction and overview. DVA , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05617-X and WBG , Darmstadt 2002, without ISBN.
  • Editor: Genocide and Gender. Jewish women in the National Socialist camp system , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2005.
  • Gender history in old and new ways. Times and spaces , in: Jürgen Osterhammel , Dieter Langewiesche and Paul Nolte (eds.): Ways of society history , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 45–67.
  • Editor together with Daniel Schönpflug : Friedrich Meinecke in his time. Studies on life and work , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006.
  • Women's rights as human rights: Olympe de Gouges' “Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens” , in: European History Topic Portal (2009).
  • Editor together with Gerhard A. Ritter : Friedrich Meinecke. New letters and documents , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2012.
  • Gender stories of the modern age. Ideas, politics, practice (= critical studies on the science of history . Volume 213). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol, CT 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-37033-9 .

English

  • Women's History and Gender History. Aspects of an International Debate , in: Gender and History , Volume 1, 1989, pp. 7-30.
  • Editor with Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli: Machiavelli and Republicanism , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990.
  • Editor with Pat Thane: Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s – 1950s , Routledge, London 1991.
  • Editor with Susan James: Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity , Routledge, London 1992.
  • Ordinary Women in Nazi Germany. Perpetrators, Victims, Followers, and Bystanders , in: Women in the Holocaust , edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman, Yale University Press, New Haven, London 1998, pp. 85-100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ilse Lenz : The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 , pp. 148 ff., 215 ff.
  2. ^ Review notes at Perlentaucher .
  3. ^ "Different horror, same hell", review by Veronika Springmann in: Querelles , No. 17 (2005).
  4. Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug (eds.): Gender History in a Transnational Perspective. Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders , Berghahn, New York, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-274-4 ( reviews and table of contents on the publisher's website ).
  5. Ida Blom in the English language Wikipedia : Ida Blom .
  6. website of IFRWH .
  7. Campus website for the series .
  8. www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / press releases / Federal President Steinmeier awards 28 orders of merit on honorary office day. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  9. Review .