Review of: Heike Kahlert, Christine Weinbach (Hg.): Zeitgenössische Gesellschaftstheorien und Genderforschung. Einladung zum Dialog. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2012.

Authors

  • Katrin Späte Universität Münster

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1094

Keywords:

Feminismus, Geschlecht, Gender, Moderne, Wissenschaftstheorie

Abstract

With their edition of nine reconstructions, integrations, and revisions of sociological theories about the development and structural features of modern societies, Heike Kahlert and Christine Weinbach invite to a dialogue between social theories and gender studies. The analyses of the status of gender in classic works from Pierre Bourdieu to Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault to Luhmann show straightforwardly the lightness of grand thoughts and what they could accomplish if the ‘superstructure gender’ was considered. The “invitational texts” offer multiple suggestions for further research regarding everything “society as a whole” – even if most of it can already be found written elsewhere.

Author Biography

Katrin Späte, Universität Münster

seit 2002 Soziologin am Institut für Soziologie mit den Schwerpunkten Sozialstruktur und Kultur, soziologische Theorie, Geschlechterforschung, Integration, Bildungssystem, Didaktik

Published

2013-12-20

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