CENTER FOR GENDER STUDIES

BASEL UNIVERSITY, SWITZERLAND

2001

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Emeritus
  • Co-leads
  • Assistants
  • PRIMA Grantee Team
  • Administration staff
  • Library staff
  • Researchers

Objectives

  • The research profile of Basel Gender Studies combines social, cultural and scientific traditions. Multidimensional relationships of gender, class, «race»/ethnicity and sexuality are analyzed. Research practice is about content-related, epistemological and methodological approaches. We conduct research in the form of research projects and doctoral projects.
  • To offer a broad interdisciplinary study program that ranges from different subjects such as law and economics to cultural and social sciences to the natural sciences.

Research and results

  • Literature study: Change of the family (Andrea Maihofer and Tomke König, 2001). Publication in german: Maihofer, Andrea, Tomke Böhnisch and Anne Wolf, Change in the family. Literature study. The Hans Böckler Foundation, Dusseldorf, 2001.
  • New families. New arrangements of family and work? (Andrea Maihofer, Phil Tomke King, 2002-2003).
  • Gender Studies – Offer, Demand and Transformational Potential in Society.An International Comparative Study (Andrea Maihofer, Brigitte Liebig, Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao, Monique Dupuis, 2004-2006).
  • Politics of Parenthood. The Politics of Parenthood and its Impact on Women’s Employment. Case Studies in Switzerland and Canada (Justyna Sempruch, 2004- 2007).
  • Mentoring programs for young female scientists and their structural effects at the University of Basel (Ulle Jäger, 2007-2008).
  • Killings in the social vicinity – a qualitative analysis of official (re)construction work (Andrea Maihofer, Daniela Gloor, Hanna Meier, 2005-2008).
  • How do couples live? Change, persistence and gender relations in the design, use and maintenance of spaces (Tomke König, 2006-2010).
  • Gender in Motion: The paradoxes of persistence and change in notions of gender and gender relations (Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Walter Sisulu University, Sheila Meintjes 2007-2010).
  • Not Just Boys’ Fun? (Andrea Maihofer and Marion Schulze, 2009-2010)
  • Why do some men become fathers and some don’t? Conditions of fatherhood today. An analysis of the interrelationships of biographical experiences, masculinity and fatherhood (Andrea Maihofer, 2007-2010).
  • Family gender arrangements. An empirical study of negotiation processes in couple relationships (Tomke König, 2004). Book published in German.
  • How do men deal with health in everyday life? An empirical study on the connection between health-related actions of middle-aged men and masculinity (constructions) (Andrea Maihofer, Elisabeth Zemp Stutz, 2012-2014).
  • Anticipated parenthood and employment – On the interrelationship of family and career ideas of young adults (Andrea Maihofer, 2014-2016).
  • «We are going to marry». An ethnography of the enactment of intimate couple relationships in contemporary marriage practices (Andrea Maihofer, Fleur Weibel, 2013-2017).
  • The emergence of conceptions of families in (German-speaking) Switzerland (Andrea Maihofer, 2016-2017).
  • Sexual Scripts as Palimpsest: Sexuality in Contemporary Theoretical Debates and Literary Storytelling (Christa Binswanger, 2018). Book published in German.
  • Doing Diversity – A toolbox for equal opportunities officers, researchers and teachers at Swiss universities (Andrea Zimmermann, 2018-2020).
  • Gender relations in the Swiss cultural sector. A qualitative and quantitative analysis with a focus on artists, cultural institutions and associations (Andrea Zimmermann, 2019-2021). Results available in its website.
  • Literature Review. Gender Equality Measures in Academia (Andrea Zimmermann, 2021).

Ongoing projects

  • Gender & Science. Analyzing and Transforming Gender Structures in the NCCR MSE (Andrea Zimmermann).
  • Gendered Security Strategies. How Gender Matters in the Policy and Practice of ‘Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism’ (Elizabeth Mesok, 2020-2025).
  • Pink. En/Gendering a Color (Dominique Grisard).
  • Analogue, hybrid, online. Difference-sensitive teaching (Diana Baumgarten, 2022-2024).