THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER FOR GENDER RESEARCH (IZG)

BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY, GERMANY

2016 (1982)

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Board directors
  • Advisory Board

Objectives

  • Planning, development and implementation of research projects and the publication of research results
  • Coordination of courses in the field of gender studies
  • Support for students and scientists in the planning and implementation of work projects
  • Organization of lecture series, guest lectures, colloquia
  • Promotion of contacts and communication between gender researchers at the university and national and international organizations.

Research and results

Projects (47) Related to Heritage and Humanities:

  • Money and gender (Birgitta Wrede, 2002-2005). Publications: Wrede, Birgitta “Ambivalent Relationships: Women and Money”, Concerning girls, subject: Sterntaler – girls, poverty and money, 19, 1, (2006), p. 4-9.
  • Fatherhood in Late Modernity. Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames (Mechtild Oechsle, Ursula Mueller, Sabine Hess). Publication: Oechsle, Mechtild; Müller, Ursula & Hess, Sabine (eds.) Fatherhood in Late Modernity. Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames. Leverkusen, Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 2012.

Ongoing projects

Publications in 2024 (in german):

  • Kallenberg V. “Women’s History, Jewish Experience & the Search for Coherence. On the intellectual history of Gerda Lerner’s The Female Experience (1977). In: Kallenberg V, König T, Erhart W, (Eds.), Gender as experience. Theories, empiricism, political practice. Bielefeld; Accepted.
  • Kallenberg V, König T, Erhart W, (Eds.), Gender as experience – Experiencing Gender. Theories, Empirics, Political Practice, Bielefeld: transcript; draft.
  • Kallenberg V., Feminist Movements (1960s–Present).