Sabine Hark

German sociologist

Free University of Berlin (PhD, 1995)
Goethe University Frankfurt

Scientific careerFields

Sociology of gender

Institutions

Technical University of Berlin
University of Cologne

Sabine Hark (born 7 August 1962 in Nonnweiler) is a German feminist and sociologist,^[1] and sits on the editorial board of the journal Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies).^[2]

Education

She studied sociology and political science at Mainz and Frankfurt am Main. She received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1995.

Career

From 1997 until 2005 she has taught "sociology of gender" at the University of Potsdam. Since 2009 she has been director of "The center for interdisciplinary women's and gender's studies" at the Technical University of Berlin. A central part of her research is the deconstruction of lesbianism with respect to feminine identity.

Selected bibliography

Books

Hark, Sabine (2005). Dissidente partizipation: eine diskursgeschichte des feminismus (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518293539.

Book review: Schlichter, Annette (December 2008). "Book review: Sabine Hark, Dissidente Partizipation: Eine Diskursgeschichte des Feminismus. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005". Feminist Theory. 9 (3): 367–368. doi:10.1177/1464700108095859. S2CID 143676150.

Chapters in books

Hark, Sabine; Villa, Paula–Irene (2010) [2009], "Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit – Einleitung zur deutschen Ausgabe", in McRobbie, Angela (ed.), Top girls: Feminismus und der Aufstieg des neoliberalen Geschlechterregimes (in German), Wiesbaden: VS-Verl, pp. 7–16, ISBN 9783531162720.
- From the original book in English: McRobbie, Angela (2009). The aftermath of feminism: gender, culture and social change. Los Angeles London: SAGE. ISBN 9780761970620.
Butler, Judith; Hark, Sabine (2018), "Defamation and the Grammar of Harsh Words", in Sweetapple, Christopher (ed.), The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany, Applied Sexology, Psychosocial-Verlag, pp. 203–207, ISBN 978383797444-7, ISSN 2367-2420^[3]

Journal articles

Hark, Sabine (May 2009). "Was ist und wozu Kritik? Über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen feministischer Kritik heute". Feministische Studien (in German). 27 (1): 22–35. doi:10.1515/fs-2009-0104. S2CID 141045558.
Hark, Sabine (May 2013). "Feministische Theorie heute: Die Kunst, ≥Nein≤ zu sagen". Feministische Studien (in German). 31 (1): 65–71. doi:10.1515/fs-2013-0113. S2CID 141587838.

References

^ Dowling, Siobhán (24 September 2009). "Letter from Berlin: Does Angela Merkel Deserve to Be a Feminist Icon?". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^ "Feministische Studien: Editorial Board". Retrieved 9 February 2015.
^ "The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany (PDF-E-Book). Essays on Racism, Capitalism and Sexual Politics". Psychosozial-Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2018-09-22.