(Original German) Sigrid Metz-Goeckel GFP Interview

Описание: An interview with Sigrid Metz-Goeckel, interviewed by Slawomira Walczewska in October of 2017.

Sigrid Metz-Goeckel was born in August 1940 in Pietraszyn, a village in southern Poland, close to the Czech border. She is a scientist and a frontier worker between science and science policy. She has been committed to social justice and improving the situation of women as a member of civil society, which led her to found the "Defiant Women" Foundation (Stiftung Aufmüpfige Frauen) in 2004. She studied Economics at Mainz University (1960-61) and Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt (1961-1966), and then pursued doctoral studies in social psychology and political science at the University of Gießen (1968-1972). She became a Sociology Professor at the Technical University Dortmund (Technischen Universität Dortmund) in 1976. Between 1976 and 2005, she was director of the Center for Higher Education of the University of Dortmund and an expert member of numerous commissions and councils, including for the German parliament. She also acted as initiator and spokesperson for the first graduate program in women's studies (1993-1999) and doctoral program of the Hans Blöcker Foundation from 2001-2008.

More info about this interview and the Global Feminisms Project (GFP) can be found at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/globalfem...

Thank you to:
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Groundworks Media Lab and Duderstadt Center
The Germany Site Team: Slawomira Walczewska