Ulla Wischermann

Ulla Wischermann (* 1952 ) is a German sociologist who specializes in gender research . She was a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Ulla Wischermann studied German , pedagogy and journalism and passed her first state examination in 1977 for teaching at grammar schools at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

From 1978 to 1982 she was a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Communication and Aesthetics at the University of Bremen . From 1978 to 1980 she worked as a research assistant at the Deutsche Presseforschung at the University of Bremen in the project “The illustrated mass press in Germany” (funded by the DFG) and from 1979 to 1981 on the project “Women and Law” at the Department of Social Sciences . In addition, from 1979 to 1982 she received a teaching position in the social affairs department at the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences in Emden and in the teaching post secondary level 2 with a professional specialization at the University of Bremen.

From 1983 to 1988, Ulla Wischermann was a research assistant at the Feminist Archive and Documentation Center in Frankfurt am Main, responsible for the departments of history, women's movement and media. From 1989 to 1995 she was a research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and worked on the research projects "Hessian women politicians in the post-war period" (funded by the Hessian state parliament) and "On the politics and culture of the women's movement around the turn of the century" (funded by the DFG).

In 1992, Wischermann received teaching assignments in the social sciences department of the Philipps University of Marburg and the Justus Liebig University of Gießen . From 1994 to 1998 she was the spokesperson for the women's and gender studies department in the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK).

From 1996 to 2002 Ulla Wischermann was a research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2002 she completed her habilitation in the social sciences department at Goethe University with the subject of “Women's Movements and the Public Around 1900” in sociology and until 2007 was the Goethe University's women's representative. In 2003, she took over the representation of a professorship in the department of cultural studies in the field of language and communication at the University of Lüneburg , and from 2004 to 2005 she took over the representation of a professorship in the department of social sciences with a focus on women and gender studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

From 2009 to autumn 2017 she was professor in the social sciences department at Goethe University with a focus on gender studies, media sociology, public theories and social movement research and executive director at the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies .

engagement

Ulla Wischermann has been co-editor since 1988 and was temporarily managing director of the magazine “Feministische Studien. Journal for interdisciplinary women's research ”. Since 1997 she has been co-editor of the international review magazine "Feminist Europa".

In 1997 she began working for the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE) and the Advanced Thematic European Network of Activities in Women's Studies (ATHENA). She is currently a member of the working group " Joint PhD Training ".

Ulla Wischermann has been a member of the “German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies” (DGPuK) since 1990, and since 1998 a member of the DFG graduate college “Public and Gender Relations: Dimensions of Experience” at the Cornelia Goethe Center of the Goethe University and the University of Kassel Member of the scientific advisory board of the “Archives of the German Women's Movement” in Kassel, since 2002 academic adviser at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University and since 2008 member of the women's commission of the City of Frankfurt.

Publications

Monographs

• 1983: Women's Issues and the Press: Women's Work and Women's Movement in the Illustrated Press of the 19th Century. Phil. Diss. Munich, New York, London, Paris (= Studies on Journalism Bremer Reihe, vol. 24).
• 1998: Women's journalism and journalism: From the Vormärz to the revolution of 1848. Weinheim.
• 2003: Women's movements and publics around 1900: networks - counter-publics - protests. Helmer. Koenigstein.
• 2013: with Elisabeth Klaus: journalists. A history in biographies and documents 1848–1990. Muenster.

Anthologies

• 1977: with Regina Henneke, Beate Mühl (ed.): The role of women in the labor dispute in Erwitte: photo and text documentation. Muenster.
• 1986: with Ute Gerhard-Teuscher, Heide Schlüpmann (Ed.): Politics of Autonomy. = Feminist Studies No. 2
• 1988: with Hartwig Gebhardt (Ed.): Die Staatsbürgerin. Offenbach a. M. 1886. True to the original reprint of Germany's first workers' magazine. Munich, New York, London, Paris.
• 1989: with Juliane Jacobi-Dittrich (ed.): Gegen- / public. = Feminist Studies No. 1
• 1991: with Sabine Schilling, Sigrid Weigel, Claudia Opitz (eds.): Cultural and sexual differences. = Feminist Studies No. 2
• 1993: with Elke Schüller, Ute Gerhard (ed.): Citizens between party and movement: Women's politics in Hesse 1945–1955. Frankfurt.
• 1994: with Pia Schmid (ed.): Sisterhood: Schwestern und others. = Feminist Studies No. 1
• 1994: with Christina Klausmann (ed.): Women's movements. = Feminist Studies No. 2
• 1996: with Gudrun Marci-Boehncke , Petra Werner (eds.): BlickRrichtung women: Theories and methods of gender-specific reception research. Weinheim.
• 1997: Multimedia = Feminist Studies No. 1
• 2001: with Elisabeth Klaus, Jutta Röser (ed.): Communication sciences and gender studies. Opladen.
• 2006: with Anja Weckwert (Ed.): The Century of Feminism. Helmer. Koenigstein.
• 2008: with Ute Gerhard, Petra Pommerenke (eds.): Classics of Feminist Theory, Vol. I. Königstein.
• 2008: with Tanja Thomas (Ed.): Media - Diversity - Inequality. Wiesbaden.
• 2008: with Rita Casale, Ute Gerhard (eds.): New Feminism? = Feminist Studies No. 2
• 2010: with Claudia Gather, Regine Othmer (eds.): Complex Family = Feminist Studies No. 2
• 2010: with Susanne Rauscher, Ute Gerhard (ed.): Classics of Feminist Theory, Vol. II. Königstein.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulla Wischermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Further publications: http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/44676874/Publikationen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/44676916/Vita
2. ↑ http://www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/das-centrum/lösungen/
3. ↑ http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/44676916/Vita
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100312152200/http://www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/cgc-m-wischermann-ww.shtml