Frigga Haug (née Langenberger) (born November 28, 1937) is a German socialist-feminist sociologist and philosopher.

Life

Frigga Langenberger was born in

Mülheim Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compa ...

. She studied sociology and philosophy at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

. In 1963, she interrupted her studies to move to Cologne and give birth to a daughter. In 1965 she married a second time to the philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug. She graduated in sociology in 1971, and gained a PhD in sociology and social psychology in 1976. Haug's magazine ''Das Argument'' grew out of her opposition to nuclear rearmament. She joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) in protest at the

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, and also developed a feminist perspective. In 1988 she founded the book imprint ''Adiadne''.

Works

* ''Kritik der Rollentheorie und ihrer Anwendung in der bürgerlichen deutschen Soziologie'' ritique of role theory and its application in bourgeois German sociology Frankfurt: Fischer, 1972. * ''Beyond female masochism: memory-work and politics'', London/New York: Verso, 1980. * ''Erinnerungsarbeit'' emory work Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, 1990 * (ed.) ''Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Feminismus'' istorical-critical dictionary of feminism Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, 3 vols, 2003–2011.

References

1937 births Living people German women philosophers German sociologists German socialist feminists German women sociologists 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers 20th-century German women writers 21st-century German women writers People from Mülheim Free University of Berlin alumni {{Germany-sociologist-stub