Gudrun-Axeli Knapp
Gudrun-Axeli Knapp (born November 22, 1944 in Winterberg ) is a German social scientist and professor emerita at the Psychological Institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover . Her research, teaching and publications focus on social psychology of gender difference, sociology of gender relations and feminist theory .
life and work
Gudrun-Axeli Knapp completed an apprenticeship as a state-certified gymnastics teacher at the Doris Reichmann School in Hanover from 1963 to 1965 . In 1965 she emigrated to Chicago , where she took various jobs, including at the Chicago Health Club . In the USA, her interest in gaining insight into social and historical contexts was aroused, because she perceived social injustice and inequality more intensely than in her home environment in Germany, and was shocked by the images of the war in Vietnam and “as a German” with the National Socialist Past was faced. In 1969 she returned to Germany and after a traineeship worked as an editor for the Hanover press until 1972 .
In 1971 she passed an immaturity examination and began studying sociology , social psychology and political science at the University of Hanover. In 1980 she became Dr. phil. PhD. The book publication of her dissertation under the title Industrial Work and Instrumentalism. The story of a preliminary judgment appeared in 1981.
She had lectureships at the universities of Hanover, Dortmund, Innsbruck, Vienna and substitute professorships at the universities of Münster and Kassel. In 1990 he completed his habilitation in Bremen in the field of social sciences, with a focus on social psychology with a paper on radicalism in feminist science . In 1991 she was appointed to the professorship for women and gender studies at the University of Hanover.
With her anthology Im Widerstreit - Feminist Theory in Motion , Gudrun-Axeli Knapp presented an extensive retrospective of 25 years of feminist theory formation in 2012.
"Overall [...] the anthology Im Widerstreit presents itself as a huge and impressive fund of intellectual inspiration that should be recommended without reservation as a 'classic' feminist theory."
Memberships
- Women's Research Section in the German Society for Sociology (DGS); from 1987 to 1991 section councilor in the women's research section.
- British Sociological Association
- Working group for women scientists in Hanover
Publications (selection)
- Working on the difference. Interventions of feminist theory , Innsbruck / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5331-5 .
- In conflict. Feminist Theory in Motion , Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18267-4 .
- with Regina Becker-Schmidt : Feminist Theories for Introduction , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-88506-313-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gudrun-Axeli Knapp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Gudrun-Axeli Knapp at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gudrun-Axeli Knapp: Straightforward detours , in: Ulrike Vogel (Hrsg.): Paths to sociology and women and gender studies . Autobiographical notes of the first generation of female professors at the university, VS Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14966-0 , pp. 178-189
- ↑ In Contrast - Outlines of a Program of Feminist Theory . Review by Tina Jung, in: querelles-net vol. 14, No. 1 (2013), online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knapp, Gudrun-Axeli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knapp, Axeli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterberg |