Heinz-Jürgen Voß (social scientist)

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Heinz-Jürgen Voss (born December 17, 1979 in Ilmenau ) is a German social scientist and biologist . His research and teaching focuses on biological-medical gender theories, sexology , queer studies and intersectionality .

Life

Voss is a son of the mathematician Heinz-Jürgen Voss and the mathematician and science historian Waltraud Voss . From 1998 to 2004 he completed a degree in biology with a diploma at the TU Dresden and the University of Leipzig . This was followed in 2010 by a doctorate in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Bremen with the dissertation Gender Deconstruction from a Biological-Medical Perspective , which was published as a book under the title Making Sex Revisited . Since 2007 he has worked as a lecturer at various universities in both fields of his academic education. The Merseburg University of Applied Sciences appointed him to the professorship for sexology and sexual education in March 2014.

Plant and positions

Voss has published books and numerous articles that deal in particular with gender and sexuality. He developed his main ideas in two writings: In Making Sex Revisited (2010) he deals with gender theories and gender constructions in biology and medicine from antiquity to the present. Gender. Against Naturalness (2011) is an introduction to gender research. Both books have received numerous reviews. The focus of interest is on his deconstruction of the apparently unambiguous determination of sex through genes and chromosomes .

In an interview with the magazine Chrismon Voss said that the species Homo sapiens does not consist of two complementary sexes, but that "innumerable" sexes exist. When asked about the latest research, he replied: “Up until the 1920s, there was talk of gender diversity. With the Nazis came the theory of a largely clear biological dichotomy, which is still taught in biology studies, although current research has long advanced. Such simple theses puzzled me, and I realized that the supposedly natural dichotomy brings a lot of suffering. ”Even after 1945, Nazi researchers had shaped science. The scientific processing has only just begun. Voss is thus building on the work of science historian Helga Satzinger and biologist and gender researcher Anne Fausto-Sterling . In his volume Intersexuality - Intersex he comments critically on the position of the German Ethics Council from 2012 on the situation of intersex people in Germany. Above all, he criticizes the fact that the Ethics Council sticks to the designation of intersex as a disease and that "the central concerns of intersex activists, to refrain from surgical and hormonal interventions in early childhood, have not been included in its recommendations".

In addition to his work on gender and biology, Voss has been present in the field of sexual education and the prevention of sexualised violence since 2014. As a research professor and head of the research project “Protection of Children and Young People from Sexual Traumatization” he is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the funding line Sexualized Violence in Educational Institutions . As part of the funding line, an ethics declaration and a curriculum on sexual education and the prevention of sexualised violence were created. Voss also heads the EU project "TRASE - Training in Sexual Education for People with Disabilities" and other third-party funded projects at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences .

In 2017, Heinz-Jürgen Voss co-edited the “Third German Men's Health Report” on the sexuality of men, in 2018 the volume of results for the “Sexual Violence in Educational Contexts” funding line financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Award

Voss's dissertation, Making Sex Revisited: Deconstruction of Gender from a Biological and Medical Perspective , was published in book form and was awarded the International Humanities Translation Grant in 2011 .

Confrontation with Akif Pirinçci

Because of her sex education positions, social scientist Elisabeth Tuider was exposed to defamatory abuse and threats of violence through social media , initiated by bestselling author Akif Pirinçci . Elisabeth Tuider was then supported by Heinz-Jürgen Voss, among others, who was then also reviled by Akif Pirinçci. The former chairman of the Gender Studies Society , Sabine Hark , spoke in this context of a "clear quality difference compared to previous anti-feminist attacks".

Voss filed a criminal complaint against Pirinçci and obtained an injunction under civil law. As a result, Pirinçci is not allowed to repeat the insults that have been put forward when threatened with a fine of 250,000 euros. In November 2014, the Bonn public prosecutor's office issued an order of 12,000 euros against Pirinçci for insult , against which he appealed. In January 2015, Pirinçci accepted a € 8,000 fine for insulting.

Publications (books, editorships)

  • Relationship between somatic mutations in tumor tissue and known germline mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in hereditary breast cancer. Grin Verlag, Munich / Ravensburg 2004/2007, ISBN 978-3-638-83821-4 .
  • Criticism with method? Research methods and social criticism. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02136-8 .
  • Making Sex Revisited. Deconstruction of gender from a biological-medical perspective. Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1329-2 . OPEN ACCESS
  • Gender. Against naturalness. 3rd unchanged edition. Butterfly Verlag , Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89657-663-7 .
  • Intersex - intersex. An intervention. Unrast, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-119-8 .
  • with Zülfukar Çetin and Salih Alexander Wolter: Interventions against the German “circumcision debate ”. Edition Assemblage, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-942885-42-3 .
  • Biology & homosexuality. Theory and application in a social context. Unrast, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89771-122-8 .
  • with Salih Alexander Wolter: Queer and (anti) capitalism. Butterfly publishing house, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89657-061-1 .
  • with Michaela Katzer (ed.): Gender, sexual and reproductive self-determination: practice-oriented approaches. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8379-2546-3 .
  • with Zülfukar Çetin: Gay Visibility - Gay Identity: Critical Perspectives. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8379-2549-4 .
  • with Doris Bardehle, Theodor Klotz, Bettina Staudenmeyer and Stiftung Männergesundheit (Eds.): Third German men's health report: Sexuality of men. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8379-2683-5 .
  • with Doris Bardehle, Theodor Klotz, Bettina Staudenmeyer and Stiftung Männergesundheit (Hrsg.): Sexuality of Men - 3rd German Men's Health Report (Condensed version). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8379-2716-0 .
  • Musicalizing the Idea of ​​Homosexuality: On the Topicality of Guy Hocquenghem. Psychosocial, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8379-2783-2 .
  • with Salih Alexander Wolter: Queer and (Anti) Capitalism. (in: Christopher Sweetapple, The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany: Essays on Racism, Capitalism and Sexual Politics Psychosozial, Gießen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8379-2840-2 . OPEN-ACCESS (English translation by: Heinz-Jürgen Voß and Salih Alexander Wolter: Queer and (anti) capitalism. Schmetterling-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89657-061-1 .)
  • with Martin Wazlawik, Alexandra Retkowski, Anja Henningsen, Arne Dekker (eds.): Sexual violence in educational contexts: current research and reflections. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-18001-0 .
  • with Michaela Katzer: Gender and sexual self-determination through art and media: New approaches to sexual education. Psychosozial Verlag, Giessen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8379-2858-7 .
  • with Kim Ritter: Being Bi: Bisexuality between invisibility and chic. Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3402-1 .
  • with Christopher Sweetapple and Salih Alexander Wolter: Intersectionality. From anti-discrimination to a liberated society? Butterfly Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-89657-167-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae. ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Medizin.uni-halle.de , accessed on August 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medizin.uni-halle.de
  2. ↑ Kerstin Bischl: Review of: Voss, Heinz-Jürgen: Making Sex Revisited: Deconstruction of gender from a biological-medical perspective . Bielefeld 2010 In: H-Soz-Kult. June 24, 2011. Accessed online April 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Biographical Notes , heinzjuergenvoss.de, accessed on March 19, 2014.
  4. ^ "Between Movement and Science". Congratulations, Professor Heinz-Jürgen Voss! In: salihalexanderwolter.de , March 8, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Daniela Heitzmann: The cultural interpretation pattern "gender difference". Heinz-Jürgen Voß's criticism of Claudia Honegger and Londa Schiebinger . Gender , issue 2/2013, pp. 114–128 ( PDF )
  6. ↑ a b Hanna Lucassen: Neither man nor woman , interview with Heinz-Jürgen Voß, Chrismon (magazine), September 2013, accessed on August 16, 2014.
  7. ^ Heinz-Jürgen Voß: Intersexuality: Activism and research, their interlocking and intersectional development. In: Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld (Hrsg.): Research in Queer Format. Current contributions from LGBTI *, queer and gender research. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2702-2 , p. 122.
  8. ^ Esp .: Helga Satzinger: Difference and Heredity - Gender Orders in Genetics and Hormone Research 1890–1950 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009.
  9. ↑ see Congenital or Developed? On the biology of gender development , Gen-Ethischer Informationsdienst Spezial No. 9, December 2009 as well as Making Sex Revisited (2010) and Gender: Against the Naturalness (2011).
  10. ↑ Review by Simone Emmert in Querelles.net, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2013)
  11. ↑ Recommendations for research on sexual violence in educational contexts
  12. ↑ Curriculum of junior and research professorships - draft phase
  13. ↑ Further current research projects - compiled at the University of Merseburg
  14. ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: Excellent Works October 2011
  15. ↑ Erik Schneider et al. (Ed.): Normierte Kinder. 2nd Edition. Transcript Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2417-5 , authors, p. 399.
  16. ^ Elisabeth Tuider and others: Sexual education of diversity. Practical methods on identities, relationships, the body and prevention for school and youth work. 2nd, revised edition. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7799-2088-5 .
  17. ^ Daniel Kunz: Stefan Timmermanns, Elisabeth Tuider: Sexualpädagogik der Vielfalt. Review on socialnet, September 8, 2009, accessed July 26, 2014.
  18. ↑ a b c Simone Schmollack, Martin Reeh: Pirinçci provokes a murder call. In: Taz . July 27, 2014.
  19. ↑ Against right-wing hatred - for a committed sexologist. Society for Sexology, July 21, 2014.
  20. ↑ Christian Jakob: Hatred and heteronormativity. In: Jungle World . No. 30, July 24, 2014.
  21. ↑ Sarah Schaschek: Brutal threats on the Internet: hatred and agitation against gender researchers. In: The time . August 12, 2014.
  22. ^ A b Dispute between researcher from Merseburg and successful author Pirinçci. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 2nd December 2014.
  23. ↑ riot author Akif Pirinçci: fine for libel. In: Spiegel Online. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  24. ↑ Akif Pirinçci has to go to court for insult. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. November 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Heinz-Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Heinz-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau