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Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften

Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef

Portrait Mona Motakef © Aliona Kardash​/​TU Dortmund

Research Focus

In my research and teaching, I am interested in how gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation become relevant in how people lead their lives. I am interested in this from a subject-oriented perspective and in light of changes in social policy, paid and unpaid work, and family. My research is situated in the interpretative paradigm. I have researched gender relations in precarious life arrangements, inequality, and the ambivalent recognition of diverse families. At TU Dortmund University, I am head of the HBS doctoral program “New Challenges in Aging Societies”. I am the first spokesperson for the “Women's and Gender Studies” section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), a liaison lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation, and I am committed to the editorial board of the journal Feminist Studies (feministische studien), a journal for interdisciplinary women's and gender studies.