Ursula Richter (sociologist)

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Ursula Maria Richter (born May 30, 1942 in Wustung , Sudetenland ) is a German sociologist whose books primarily deal with the life models and perspectives of women from the perspective of the social sciences .

Life

From 1976 she studied sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After completing his graduate studies (diploma in sociology), he studied research at the universities of University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Los Angeles . Then the doctoral studies took place at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Vienna . In 1989 she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna. From 1992 Richter was a lecturer at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Miyazaki, and in 1998 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia , Vancouver . From 1999 to 2002 Ursula Richter was a professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Miyazaki. She has lived as a freelance writer since 2003. In 2006 and 2007 she accepted a position as a lecturer at Fuzhou University and at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou in Fujian Province , China. She has three grown children.

job

In her first book, Ursula Richter examined love relationships in which women are significantly older than men, and placed this topic on a new, empirically solid basis. To love a younger man. New Relationship Opportunities for Women was published in 1989 by Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart. The book is based on Ursula Richter's dissertation in sociology and has enriched the popular science debate in particular since its publication (reviews and stories in Der Spiegel, among others ).

To love a younger man has been translated into Japanese and Korean , as has its 1991 successor, in which Ursula Richter examines the status of female vengeance in our society: the vengeance of women, forms of female self-assertion .

In her publication, The Smile of the Geisha (Ehrenwirth-Verlag), the author deals with the modern reality of the geisha . Ursula Richter has taught at Miyazaki University ( Miyazaki , Japan ) for 10 years . She now lives as a freelance writer in Lower Bavaria.

Works

  • To love a younger man. New relationship opportunities for women . Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7831-1010-6
  • When women love younger men . Kösel Verlag, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-466-30420-2
  • When women love younger men . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, series Die Frau in der Gesellschaft, Frankfurt / Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-14124-9
  • Women's revenge, forms of female self-assertion . Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7831-1114-5
  • Women's revenge, forms of female self-assertion . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-11771-9
  • Younger men . In: Alice Schwarzer (Ed.): The latest Emma book . dtv, Munich 1991 ISBN 3-423-11375-8
  • What does grandma mean here! The self-image of today's grandmothers . Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7831-1291-5
  • What does grandma mean here! . dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-36052-6
  • Thoughts about life paths and role models . In: Hans Christian Meiser (Ed.): Staying young. The secret of youth in old age . Fischer TB Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12695-9
  • Brides of the night. The spiritual eroticism of ancient Japan . Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-404-70126-7
  • with Sakue Ogawa: New opportunities for partnership . Dogakusha Publishing House, Tokyo 1997
  • Himiko - Sun Queen and Shaman , in: Marina Grünewald (Ed.): Schamaninnen , Smaragd-Verlag, Neuwied, 1999, ISBN 3-926374-78-0
  • with Sakue Ogawa: What does gender mean here? . Asahi Publishing House, Tokyo 1999
  • with Sakue Ogawa: Love again and again . Dogakusha Publishing House, Tokyo 2002
  • Dr. Toshikatsu Yamamoto , stations in a life . Publishing house for holistic medicine Dr. Erich Wühr GmbH, Kötzting / Bayer.Wald 2003 ISBN 3-927344-65-6
  • The Geisha's Smile - Secrets of the Japanese Art of Living . Ehrenwirth, Stuttgart, 2005 ISBN 3-431-03629-5
  • The life of the geisha. The reality behind the white mask . Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 2007 ISBN 978-3-404-60586-6
  • with Christine Weiner: Years of Fire. Love, lust and passion with Forty-Something . Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-66419-1
  • From sixty on I live differently than you think. How we women discover a new decade . Pendo Verlag, Munich and Zurich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86612-169-0
  • Women love younger men. Another way to be happy . Kreuz Verlag in Verlag Herder GmbH, Freiburg i. B., 2010, ISBN 978-3-7831-3489-6
  • From sixty on I live differently than you think. From the life of an experienced woman . Shaker Media, Aachen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86858-676-3

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personal data
SURNAME Judge, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Ursula Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wustung , Sudetenland