Heike Kahlert

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Heike Kahlert (* 1962 in Hameln ) is a German sociologist with a focus on women and gender studies .

Scientific career

Heike Kahlert studied sociology, economics , psychology and modern German literature at the University of Hamburg . In 1995 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the theory and politics of gender difference in Bielefeld . She received her habilitation with a paper on sociological analysis of demographic change and her Venia Legendi for sociology from the University of Hildesheim .

From 2001 to 2011 Heike Kahlert worked as a research assistant and project manager at the Chair of Macrosociology in Rostock . At the same time, she was visiting professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg in 2007 and was a Maria Goeppert Mayer visiting professor for international women and gender studies in Hildesheim in 2008/2009 . In 2011 she was visiting professor at the Center of Gender Excellence at the Universities of Örebro and Linköping (Sweden), where she carried out the research project The Paradox of Gender Equality. A Case Study on Cooling Out in Career Planning of Young Academics in Changing Scientific Organizations .

From the 2011 summer semester to the 2013 summer semester, Heike Kahlert represented the professorship for sociology with a focus on “Social Developments and Structures” (formerly Ulrich Beck ) at LMU Munich . Since August 2014 she has held the chair for Sociology / Social Inequality and Gender at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum .

She has been an affiliated member of the Center for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University in Sweden since 2012 .

Heike Kahlert is co-founder of the magazine Gender and co-editor of the Forum Women's and Gender Studies series of the German Society for Sociology .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Feminine subjectivity. Gender difference and democracy in discussion. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-593-35606-6 .
  • Gender mainstreaming at universities. Instructions for quality-conscious action (= politics and gender. 12). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3824-5 .
  • Generativity and Gender in Aging Welfare Societies. Sociological analyzes of the “problem” of demographic change. (= Gender and society. 50). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18181-3 .
  • Careers at risk. Young scientists in the mirror of research (= scientific careers. 1). Budrich, Opladen et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-86649-397-1 .

Editor and co-author

  • and co-author: Feminist Sociology. An introduction (= Campus series. 1063). Campus Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-593-34714-8 (2nd, expanded and revised new edition. (= Campus series. 1092). Ibid 1997, ISBN 3-593-35706-2 ).
  • with Claudia Lenz: The redefinition of the political. Thought movements in dialogue with Hannah Arendt. Ulrike Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 2001, ISBN 3-89741-078-8 .
  • with Claudia Kajatin: work and networking in the information age. How new technologies are changing gender relations (= series “Politics of Gender Relations”, vol. 26). Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2004, ISBN 3-593-37609-1 .
  • with Barbara Thiessen and Ines Weller: Think outside the box - change structures. Gender studies between disciplines (= studies in interdisciplinary gender research. Vol. 12). VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14522-3 .
  • with Peter A. Berger : Institutionalized inequalities. How education blocks opportunities. Juventa, Weinheim et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7799-1583-9 (several editions).
  • with Peter A. Berger: The demographic change. Opportunities for the reorganization of gender relations (= series “Politics of Gender Relations”, vol. 32). Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2006, ISBN 3-593-38194-X .
  • as editor with Hella Ehlers, Gabriele Linke, Dorit Raffel, Beate Rudlof and Heike Trappe : Gender difference - and no end? Social sciences and humanities contributions to gender research (= gender discussion. 8). Lit, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1647-6 .
  • with Waltraud Ernst: Reframing Demographic Change in Europe. Perspectives on Gender and Welfare State Transformations (= Focus gender. 11). Lit, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10411-3 .
  • with Christine Weinbach: Contemporary social theories and gender research. Invitation to dialogue. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17486-0 .
  • with Sandra Beaufaÿs and Anita Engels: Simply great ? New gender perspectives on careers in science. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39596-8 .

Lexicon contributions and essays

  • Two kinds of sociologies? On the relationship between feminist and traditional science, on the occasion of a conference on Norbert Elias. In: Sociology. Issue 3, 1995, ISSN  0340-918X , pp. 23-31.
  • Androcentrism / Androcentrism. Interdisciplinarity. Rationality. Knowledge / science. Science, feminist. In: Renate Kroll (Ed.): Metzler Lexikon. Gender studies. Gender research. Approaches - people - basic concepts. JB Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2002, ISBN 3-476-01817-2 .
  • The economic charm of equality in the realignment of German family policy. In: Rita Casale , Edgar Forster (ed.): Inequality of gender equality. Gender politics and theories of human capital (= yearbook women and gender studies in educational science. Vol. 7). Barbara Budrich, Opladen et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-359-9 , pp. 143-156, ( online ).
  • "You are a professional or nothing, sneaker or patent-leather shoe, there is nothing in between." - Career action of the next generation of academics in subjects and gender comparison. In: Political Science. Newsletter of the German Association for Political Science. No. 144, spring 2011, ZDB -ID 1496927-0 , pp. 143–151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Heike Kahlert, Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum
  2. ↑ Martina Keilbach: Review of: Beaufays, Sandra; Engels, Anita; Kahlert, Heike (Ed.): Simply great? New gender perspectives on careers in science. Frankfurt am Main 2012. In: H-Soz-u-Kult , April 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kahlert, Heike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahlkert, Heike (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin