Carol Hagemann-White

Carol Hagemann-White (born August 15, 1942 in New Jersey (USA)) is an American sociologist who has lived and worked in Germany since 1964.

Educational biography

Carol Hagemann-White earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Harvard University in 1964 . She then came to Germany with an “Airlift Thanksgiving Scholarship” from the Load Adjustment Bank and studied philosophy for a semester at the University of Bonn . In 1965 she moved to the Free University of Berlin , where she studied philosophy, sociology and history and graduated in 1970 with a doctorate in philosophy on the subject of being and class consciousness: philosophical anthropology as a denial of totality using the example of Arnold Gehlen . From 1970 to 1977 Hagemann-White worked as a research assistant for Dieter Claessens at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. There she completed her habilitation in sociology in 1976.

Teaching

After a year-long substitute professorship (sociology) at the University of Giessen in 1977/1978 , Hagemann-White taught sociology as a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin from 1978 to 1984. At the same time, she supervised adult education as part of the University of Maryland in Berlin program from 1979 to 1982. This was followed by two teaching assignments at the University of Münster in the department of social pedagogy in 1983 and as part of a pilot project "Specialists in psychosocial care" from the FU and the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Pedagogy 1983/84, before Hagemann-White became part-time professor for political science with a focus on women's studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1985. Since 1988 she has been a full professor for general pedagogy / women's studies in the Department of Education and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück .

other activities

As part of her freelance work, she took part in the scientific support of the first women's shelter in West Berlin from 1977 to 1980 . On behalf of the German Youth Institute , she prepared an expert report for the 6th youth report in 1981/82.

Carol Hagemann-White is co-founder of the women's research section in the German Society for Sociology and was its spokesperson from 1981 to 1983. In 1983 she founded the Berlin Institute for Social Research and Social Science Practice eV and worked there until 1993 as honorary managing director and in project management.

From 1983 to 1986 Hagemann-White conducted research in the DFG project "Women and Men in University Service" at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1992 to 1997 she was the scientific director of the "Institute Woman and Society" (ifg) in Hanover.

Carol Hagemann-White is a member of various international professional associations and scientific societies, for example the International Sociological Association (ISA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) and in Europe the European Women's Studies Association (WISE) and the European Women's Health Network (EWHNET).

In addition, she is also active in German organizations, such as the Union for Education and Science (GEW), in the women's research section of the German Society for Educational Science (DgfE).

In March 1998 she was awarded the German-Swedish Humboldt Prize for internationally outstanding research by the Swedish Tercentenary Foundation in Stockholm . In connection with the award, she then spent a year and a half until October 1999 as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Uppsala University in Sweden .

Research spectrum

Carol Hagemann-White has an extensive spectrum in the research areas of basic research on women's politics, feminist theory and gender identity and interaction. In doing so, she is primarily oriented towards US women's and gender studies, the results of which she tries to incorporate into West German research.

Publications

• with Reinhart Wolff: living conditions and upbringing. Basics of socialization research. Frankfurt / M. 1975, ISBN 3-87877-038-3 Pb.
• Women's movement and psychoanalysis. Frankfurt / M. 1979.
• Socialization: female-male? Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-8100-0473-1 .
• We are not born bisexual…. in: Carol Hagemann-White / Maria S. Rerrich [eds.], FrauenMännerBilder. Men and Masculinity in the Feminist Discussion. Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-921680-72-7 .
• Women's research - the way into the institution. Ideas, personalities and structural conditions using the example of Lower Saxony . Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89370-198-2 .
• with Barbara Kavemann, Dagmar Ohl: Partiality and solidarity. Practical experience and disputes about violence in the gender relationship. Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89370-252-0 .
• Experiences of violence by men and women. Carol Hagemann-White and Hans-Joachim Lenz in: Klaus Hurrelmann and Petra Kolip (2002): Gender, Health and Illness. Bern-Gottingen-Toronto-Seattle. Publisher Hans Huber.

literature

• 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 .
• Carol Hagemann-White: Paths and Bridges. In: Ulrike Vogel (Hrsg.): Paths to sociology and women and gender studies. Autobiographical notes from the first generation of female professors at the university. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, pp. 125-137, ISBN 978-3-531-90078-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anette Treibel: Introduction to Sociological Theories of the Present. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, 5th updated and improved edition, p. 147.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carol Hagemann-White in the catalog of the German National Library