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Regina Wecker Mötteli (born April 21, 1944 in Berlin ; resident in Trogen ) is a German - Swiss historian .

Life

Wecker attended schools in Berlin-Tegelort and Berlin-Tegel and graduated with a high school diploma in modern languages . From 1963 to 1969 she studied history , English , Jewish and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . From 1969 to 1975 she studied history, English and philosophy / pedagogy at the University of Basel , where she also received her doctorate in 1975. It was there that she received her habilitation in 1992 for modern general and Swiss history and in 1993 she was appointed assistant professor for women's and gender history . In 1997, her assistant professorship was transformed into an associate professorship for women's and gender history. In 1998 she received the Science Prize of the City of Basel. She retired at the end of August 2009 .

Regina Wecker is significantly involved in anchoring gender history and in building gender research in Switzerland. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of wage labor, legal history and the history of civil rights and nationality. Her recent research deals with the history of eugenics (racial hygiene) and biopolitics . From 2004 to the end of 2013 she was President of the Swiss History Society (SGG). She is a member of the board of the Swiss Social Archives and the Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF).

From 1980 to 1996 she was the residents' councilor of her municipality in Reinach . From 1980 to 1986 she was a member of the Constitutional Council of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft .

Wecker is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • History and understanding of history with Edmund Burke . Lang, Bern 1981, ISBN 3-261-04720-8 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1975).
  • Women in Switzerland. From the problems of a majority. 2 volumes. Klett and Balmer, Zug 1983, ISBN 3-264-80012-8 , ISBN 3-264-80013-6 .
  • Between economy and ideology. Work in the life context of women in the canton of Basel-Stadt 1870–1910. Chronos, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-905312-27-1 (habilitation thesis, University of Basel, 1997).
  • with Brigitte Studer and Gaby Sutter: The «woman in need of protection». For the construction of gender through maternity insurance, night work ban and special protection legislation. Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-905313-10-3 .

As editor:

  • with Andrea Maihofer : Reproduction = Reproduction. Böhlau, Cologne 2003.
  • with Sabine Braunschweig, Gabriela Imboden, Bernhard Küchenhoff, Hans Jakob Ritter: How National Socialist is Eugenics? What is National Socialist about Eugenics? International debates on the history of eugenics in the 20th century. Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78203-2 .
  • with Sabine Braunschweig, Gabriela Imboden, Hans Jakob Ritter: Eugenics and Sexuality. The regulation of reproductive behavior in Switzerland, 1900–1960. Chronos, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0340-1131-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography , fraubuenden.net, accessed on December 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ unibas.ch ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.sgg-ssh.ch
  4. ↑ http://www.gendercampus.ch/de/sggf
  5. ^ Entry about Regina Wecker in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Alarm clock, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wecker Mötteli, Regina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin