Ute Gerhard (sociologist)

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Ute Gerhard (born February 1939 in Cologne ) is a German sociologist , lawyer and professor emerita at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She was the first to hold a chair for women and gender studies at a German university.

Professional development

Ute Gerhard studied law , sociology and history in Cologne, Göttingen and Bonn . In 1962 she passed her first state examination in law. After the birth and care of her three daughters, she received her doctorate in 1977. phil. at the University of Bremen with the dissertation Relationships and Prevention. Women's work, family and rights . In 1987 she completed her habilitation with the text Equality Without Adjustment. Women in Law at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hanover .

From 1987 until her retirement in 2004 she was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and Research on Gender Relations at the University of Frankfurt, which was founded on her initiative in 1997. In 1999 she held the Käthe Leichter visiting professorship at the University of Vienna and in 2002 the Carl Schurz Memorial Professorship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Her main research interests were the history and theory of feminism , women and law, social policy and general legal sociology . Ute Gerhard was president of the Evangelical Action Group for Family Issues (eaf) from 2003 to 2009 .

She publishes on historical and current topics of the women's movements and feminist theories and is one of the co-founders of the journal Feministische Studien , of which she is a member of the advisory board. From 1995 to 2012 she was co-editor of L'Homme magazine . European journal of feminist history .

Publications (selection)

  • Circumstances and hindrances. Women's Labor, Family and Women's Rights in the 19th Century. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt 1978.
  • At the expense of women. Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1988.
  • Equality Without Equalization: Women in Law . CH Beck , Munich 1990.
    • Engl .: Debating women's equality: toward a feminist theory of law from a European perspective. Rutgers Univ. Press 2001.
  • Unheard of. The history of the German women's movement. Rowohlt , Reinbek 1990.
  • Women in the History of Law. From the early modern times to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1997.
  • Respite. Feminism as a Democratic Project. Fischer , Frankfurt 1999.
  • as publisher: Feminism and Democracy: European Women's Movements of the 1920s. Helmer Verlag , Königstein 2001.
  • Women's movement and feminism. A story since 1789. CH Beck, Munich 2009.
  • with Petra Pommerenke and Ulla Wischermann (eds.): Classics of feminist theory: Basic texts. Volume 1: 1789-1919. Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2008, ISBN 978-3-89741-242-2
  • with Ulla Wischermann, Susanne Rausche (eds.): Classics of feminist theory: basic texts. Volume 2: 1920-1985. Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2010.

Books

  • Women's movement and feminism: a story since 1789, 3rd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71841-0
  • For a different kind of justice: Dimensions of feminist legal criticism , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50836-8

Autobiography

  • How I became a sociologist - a reconstruction. In: Ulrike Vogel (Hrsg.): Paths to sociology and women and gender studies. Autobiographical notes from the first generation of female professors at the university . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-90078-1 , pp. 50–59.

Awards

literature

  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
  • Martina Friese: Ute Gerhard: circumstances and hindrances. In: Martina Löw, Bettina Mathes (Ed.): Key works in gender research. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-13886-3 , pp. 97–119.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. (ruk): Sociologist and feminist Ute Gerhard - "The community of women has given me wings". January 23, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2020 (German).
  2. History | eaf. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ Former editors of "L'Homme ZFG" since 1990. (PDF, accessed on January 18, 2016)
  4. ^ Hessian Ministry of Science and Art : Press release No. 100/2001: Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Dr. Ute Gerhard. (July 11, 2011, accessed July 17, 2012)
  5. Konstanze Plett: Laudation for Ute Gerhard on the award of the "Law and Society" award 2002. In: Zeitschrift für Rechtsssoziologie. 23rd vol. (2002), pp. 131-135.