Karin Hausen

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Karin Hausen (born March 18, 1938 in Hamburg ) is a German historian . She is considered one of the pioneers in women and gender studies .

Life

Karin Hausen studied history , German literature and sociology at universities in Berlin , Marburg , Münster , Paris and Tübingen and received her doctorate in 1969 under Gerhard A. Ritter at the Free University of Berlin . From 1978 to 1995 Karin Hausen was professor for economic and social history at the Institute for History at the Technical University of Berlin . There she founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZIFG) in 1995, which she headed from 1995 until her retirement in 2003 as a professor for interdisciplinary women and gender studies.

Hausen is one of the pioneers in women's and gender history in German-speaking countries. Another focus of her work is the history of colonialism and technology . Together with Gisela Bock and Heide Wunder , she founded the history and gender series at Campus Verlag and the historical women's research group in 1992 . She was co-editor of L'Homme from 1995 to 2012 . European Journal of Feminist History and is a member of the Advisory Board of Feminist Studies .

Karin Hausen was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her achievements in historical research .

Karin Hausen is the mother of a daughter born in 1973.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Gender history as social history (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 202). Göttingen 2012.
  • German colonial rule in Africa. Economic interests and colonial administration in Cameroon before 1914 (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Volume 9). Zurich / Freiburg 1970.

Editorships

  • with Reinhard Rürup : Modern history of technology . Cologne, Berlin 1975.
  • with Heinz-Gerhard Haupt : The Paris Commune of 1871. Success and failure of a revolution . Frankfurt / Main, New York 1979.
  • Women are looking for their story . Munich 1983.
  • with Helga Nowotny : How masculine is science? . Frankfurt / Main 1986.
  • with Heide Wunder: Women's History - Gender History . Frankfurt / Main, New York 1992.
  • with Gertraude Krell: female gainful employment. Research on the past and present . Mering, Munich 1993.
  • Gender hierarchy and division of labor. On the history of unequal employment opportunities . Göttingen 1993.

Essays

  • The polarization of the "sexual characters" - a reflection of the dissociation of work and family life . In: Werner Conze (Ed.): Social history of the family in modern times in Europe . Stuttgart 1976, pp. 363-393.
  • Women's History in the United States . In: History and Society . Volume 7, 1981, pp. 347-363.
  • Big laundry. Technical progress and social change in Germany from the 18th to the 20th century . In: History and Society . Volume 13, 1987, pp. 273-303.
  • The German householder's fear of the emancipation of women . In: Freedom - Equality - Sisterhood. Men and women at the time of the French Revolution. Documentation of a conference at the Philipps University of Marburg from 14. – 16. June 1989. Hessian State Center for Political Education. Wiesbaden 1989, pp. 122-148.
  • Doing business with the gender order. An essay . In: Karin Hausen (ed.): Gender hierarchy and division of labor. On the history of unequal employment opportunities . Göttingen 1993, pp. 40-67.
  • Employment of women and employed women in Germany since 1945. Research Notes . In: Gunilla Budde (ed.): Women work. Female gainful employment in East and West Germany after 1945 . Göttingen 1997, pp. 19-45.
  • Gender and Economy . In: Gerold Ambrosius , Dietmar Petzina , Werner Plumpe (eds.): Modern economic history. An introduction for historians and economists . Munich 1996, pp. 89-103.
  • The non-unity of history as a historiographical challenge. On the historical relevance and offense of gender history . In: Hans Medick , Anne-Charlott Trepp (ed.): Gender history and general history. Challenges and Perspectives (= Göttingen Talks on Historical Science. Volume 5), Göttingen 1998, pp. 15–55.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothee Nolte: On the 80th birthday of Karin Hausen . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ The authors. In: Ute Gerhard (ed.): Women in the history of law. From early modern times to the present. Beck, Munich 1997, p. 943 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Karin Hausen's website , accessed on August 8, 2014.
  4. ^ History and Gender , Campus Verlag website, accessed on August 8, 2014.
  5. ^ Former editors of "L'Homme ZFG" since 1990. PDF .
  6. ↑ feministische-studien.de: Advisory Board. ( Memento of September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 24, 2012.
  7. ^ Cross of merit on ribbon for TU Professor Hausen . In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft , accessed November 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ The first of its kind . In: Friday of July 27, 2012, accessed on May 29, 2016.
  9. ^ Louise Schroeder Medal for Karin Hausen , accessed on March 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hausen, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg