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Margrit Brückner

b. 1946

German sociologist and professor

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Born 1946. Margrit Brückner is a German sociologist and university teacher.

Margrit Brückner (born 1946) is a feminist German sociologist and a retired professor of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Her publications on girls and women at work, and, especially, her work on violence against women, have become core academic texts. Another of her more notable specialities involves her contributions to the international debate on (social) care.

Life Margrit Brückner was born during the aftermath of war at Mennighüffen

As a sixteen year old she had been a beneficiary of a new schools exchange programme and spent time at a school in a small town in the United States, enabling her to improve her English language skills and acclimatize to the very different unwritten social rules governing the behaviour of school-age girls. She also trained to become group analyst and supervisor (" Gruppenanalytikerin und Supervisorin"), terms which even she has subsequently struggled to translate into English.

Celebrations 1984 Elisabeth Selbert Prize for her doctoral dissertation, "Die Liebe der Frauen...." 2008 Laura Maria Bassi Prize from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Publications (selection)

Die Liebe der Frauen – Über Weiblicheit und Mißhandlung. Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt 1983. Zweitveröffentlichung: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Reihe: Die Frau in der Gesellschaft, 1. Auflage 1988, 2. Auflage 1990, 3. Auflage 1991. Frauen- und Mädchenprojekte. Von feministischen Gewissheiten zu neuen Suchbewegungen. Leske + Budrich, Opladen, 2. Auflage 1998. Wege aus der Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen. Eine Einführung. 2., veränderte Auflage, Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt a.M. 2002, , produced with Lothar Bönisch: Geschlechterverhältnisse, gesellschaftliche Konstruktionen und Perspektiven ihrer Veränderung, Juventa, Weinheim/ München 2001. with Christa Oppenheimer: Lebenssituation Prostitution – Sicherheit, Gesundheit und soziale Hilfen. Ulrike Helmer, Königstein 2006.

Essays

Understanding Professional Care from the Viewpoint of Care Receivers and Care Givers – The Necessity of a Special Care Rationality. In: Social Work & Society, International Online Journal. Vol. 10, No 2 (2012) Special Issue: „Working at the Border“ Selbst(für)sorge im Spannungsfeld von Care und Caritas. In: Mechtild Jansen and others (ed.): Selbstsorge als Themen in der (un)bezahlten Arbeit. Broschüre der Hessischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. 2012, S. 9–28 Diversitätsblockaden in asymmetrischen Care Prozessen. In: Herbert Effinger and others (ed.): Diversität und soziale Ungleichheit, analytische Zugänge und professionelles Handeln in der Sozialen Arbeit. Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2012, S. 119–130

Contributions to compendia

Care. In: Gudrun Ehlert et al. (Hrsg.): Wörterbuch Geschlecht und Soziale Arbeit. Juventa, Weinheim: 2011 Care – Sorgen als sozialpolitische Aufgabe und als soziale Praxis. In: Hans-Uwe Otto, Hans Thiersch and others (ed.) Handbuch Sozialarbeit/ Sozialpädagogik. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 2011

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Born
1946, Rinteln
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Employers
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Awards
Tony Sender Award

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German sociologist and professor

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Margrit Brückner was born in 1946 in Rinteln.

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Margrit Brückner is a sociologist and university teacher.

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Margrit Brückner is German.

Sources & further reading

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