Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Elisabeth Beck- Gernsheim ( born 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German sociologist. She is since 2009 a visiting professor at the Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway, Trondheim.

Elisabeth Beck- Gernsheim is primarily concerned with issues of social change and the changing role of the family in society. She is married to the sociologist Ulrich Beck.

Writings (selection )

  • The halved lives. 1980
  • From the birth rate to normal life. 1984
  • The question of children. 1988
  • With Ulrich Beck: The Normal Chaos of Love. 1990
  • What comes after the family?. 1998
  • Jews, German and other landscapes of memory. Frankfurt am Main, 1999. ISBN 3-518-41074-1.
  • We and others. 2004 ( expanded new edition 2007)
  • The question of children today - over woman's life, fertility and birth rate. 2006
  • With Ulrich Beck: Remote love. Life forms in the global age. 2011

Papers

  • A Heart for clones. Genetic medicine: advances in practice, the arguments remain. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 13, 1998.
  • Nation and hallucination. "Our " culture during the election campaign: How German are the Germans? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 4, 1998.
  • " A Turk is not in the opera" - what to know about German Turks. In: Robertson -von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Culture and Justice ( = cultural studies interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol 2). Baden -Baden, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5
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