Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Christine von Oertzen

Research Scholar

PD Dr.

Residence: since June 15, 2005


Profile

Christine von Oertzen's work considers gender relations in society and science. Her first monograph explored gender politics and social change in West Germany: an English-language version of this book was published in 2007. The focus of her most recent investigation is the creation and maintenance of female academic networks in western Europe and North America since the late-nineteenth century. Dr. von Oertzen's new monograph, "Science, Gender, Internationalism: A Transnational History of Female Academic Networking," will be published by the Wallstein press in Göttingen later this year; an English-language translation of this study is also forthcoming.

Christine von Oertzen earned her Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin in 1998. She subsequently taught at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender at the Technical University in Berlin. From 2002 to 2005, she served as a Research Fellow at the German Historicial Institute Washington, D.C. In 2009, she joined the faculty of the history department at the Technical University Braunschweig as a Privatdozentin. 


Selected publications

von Oertzen, Christine. Wissenschaft, Weiblichkeit, Weltgemeinschaft: Zur transnationalen Vernetzung von Akademikerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010 (in press).

Oertzen, Christine von. The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, and social change in West Germany, 1955-1969. New York [u.a.]: Berghahn Books, 2007.

Oertzen, Christine von . Teilzeitarbeit und die Lust am Zuverdienen. Geschlechterpolitik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der Bundesrepublik, 1948-1969. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1999.

Oertzen, Christine von. "Völkerverständigung durch akademische Vernetzung : die International Federation of University Women 1919-1945." In: Politische Netzwerkerinnen : internationale Zusammenarbeit von Frauen 1830-1960, eds.: Schöck-Quinteros, Eva; Schüler, Anja; Wilmers, Anika; Wolff, Kerstin. Berlin: Trafo, 2007.

Oertzen, Christine von . "Rückblick aus der Emigration: Die Akademikerinnen Erna Barschak (1888-1958), Susanne Engelmann (1885-1963?) und Lucie Adelsberger (1895-1971)." In: Erinnerungskartelle. Zur Konstruktion von Autobiographien nach 1945, eds.: Schaser, Angelika. Bochum: Winkler, 2003.