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Karen Hagemann
Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "A West-German Sonderweg? Women, Work and the 'Time Politics' of Child Care and Education" Monday, 5 February 2007 12:00 p.m. 8417 Social Sciences Sponsored by: The Center for German and European Studies FEMSEM (Sociology of Gender Brownbag) Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) Department of Sociology This talk is part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic World" Karen Hagemann is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published widely on the history of welfare states, labor culture and women’s movements, as well as the history of the nation, the military, and war. She is currently directing the international and interdisciplinary research project "The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg? The 'Time Politics' of Public Education in Post-War Europe: An East-West Comparison." Her recent books include: Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (edited with Ida Blom and Catherine Hall, 2000); Home/Front. Military and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany (ed. with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 2002); Mannlicher Mut und Teutsche Ehre. Nation, Militär und Geschlecht zur Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege Preussens (2002); Masculinities in Politics and War: Rewritings of Modern History (ed. with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh, 2004); Frieden-Gewalt-Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung (ed. with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, 2005); "Perspectives on Child Care and Education in Eastern and Western Europe," co-edited with Sonja Michel, special issue of the journal Social Politics 12:2 (2006).
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