Luise Pusch studied English, Latin and linguistics at the University of Hamburg. In 1972 she received her doctorate in English.[1] In 1978, she qualified for the linguistics faculty at the University of Konstanz. From 1979 to 1984 she was a Heisenberg Fellow in the field of feminist linguistic research. Before feminist linguistics became her specialty, she worked on syntactic issues such as construction of gerunds. From 1982 to 1985 she held professorships in English and German in Leibniz University Hannover and in the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 1985, she was named adjunct professor at the University of Konstanz. In 1990-1991, she was professor for women's studies at the University of Münster.[2] Since 1986, Pusch has been partnered with U.S. Germanist Joey Horsley from Boston, and splits her time between there and Hannover.[3]
Careeredit
In the mid-1970s, U.S. feminists such as Robin Lakoff and others had begun to pay attention to the gender discrimination inherent in the language itself, and the way it was used. Feminist linguistics didn't originally develop out of the academic linguistic discipline, but from theoreticians within oppressed groups.[4] From those beginnings, it was brought into the field of linguistics by two professors of linguistics, Senta Trömel-Plötz and Pusch who started the program of Feminist linguistics at the University of Konstanz. The first essays to appear in Germany about the topic were in 1979 in the journal Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie, and in 1980 in Linguistische Berichte.[4]
Since the 1970s Pusch has been committed to a gender-appropriate language, for example in essays, commentary, discussions, lectures and workshops.
In 1976 she started to write the autobiographical novel Sonja about her relationship to a suicidal partner. After finishing it in 1979 it got published in 1980 under the pseudonym Judith Offenbach and turned out to be a significant influence to the German-language lesbian movement of the time.
In her 1980 essay, "German as Men's Language: Diagnosis and Therapy Ideas" (Das Deutsche als Männersprache. Diagnose und Therapievorschläge) , she wrote that standard German has a built-in bias favoring males, that this is problematic, and that the simplest solution to the problem lies in partial de-genderization of the language. To that end, the feminine suffixes -in and -innen could be done away with and (contrary to the existing usage of the language) the male article (der / ein) of the noun would be replaced by the female version (die / eine); female professors would become, simply, "die Professor" (instead of Professorin) or "eine Schriftsteller" (writer) instead of Schriftstellerin.
Due to the expected non-acceptance of such a proposal, she pleaded for the stepped up use of Binnen-I (e.g., SchülerIn (schoolchild) ) in order to avoid use of the paired-word form, Schülerinnen und Schüler (schoolgirls and schoolboys). Besides her linguistic work, she built a biographical database containing the biographies of 30,000 women.[5]
Awardsedit
The association BücherFrauen [de], a network of women in the book industry, chose Luise F. Pusch as "BookWoman of the Year" 2004.[6] On her 70th Birthday, Pusch was honored with the commemorative Sprachwandlerin award.[7] The Darmstadt-based Luise Büchner Society awarded Pusch their 5th Luise Büchner Prize for Media studies in November 2016.[8]
Publicationsedit
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as publisher: ——— (1983). Feminismus: Inspektion der Herrenkultur - Ein Handbuch [Feminism: Inspection of Men's Culture - A Handbook]. NF. 1192. (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-11192-2.
——— (1984). Aufsätze und Glossen zur feministischen Linguistik [German as Men's Language: Essays and Commentary on Feminist Linguistics] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-11217-1.
as publisher: ——— (1985). Schwestern berühmter Männer: Zwölf biographische Portraits [Sisters of Famous Men: Twelve biographical Portraits]. TB (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN3-458-32496-8.
as publisher: ——— (1987). Berühmte Frauen: Kalender [Famous Women: Calendar]. Suhrkamp Taschenbücher, 4537 (in German). Vol. Band 1515. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-38015-X. ISSN 0930-9721.
as publisher: ——— (1988). Töchter berühmter Männer: Neun biographische Portraits [Daughters of Famous Men: Nine biographical portraits]. TB 979 (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN3-458-32679-0.
——— (1990). Alle Menschen werden Schwestern: feministische Sprachkritik [All the People Become Sisters: Feminist Linguistics.] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-11565-0.
as publisher, with Sibylle Duda: ——— (1992). WahnsinnsFrauen [Insane Women]. TB 1876 (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-38376-0.
——— (1993a). Ladies first: ein Gespräch über Feminismus Sprache und Sexualität [Ladies First: A Conversation About Feminism, Language and Sexuality] (in German). Bamberg: Palette. ISBN3-928062-07-7.
——— (1993b). Ladies first: Ein Gespräch über Feminismus, Sprache und Sexualität [Ladies First: A Conversation About Feminism, Language and Sexuality] (in German). Bamberg: Palette. ISBN3-928062-07-7.
as publisher: ——— (1994). Mütter berühmter Männer: Zwölf biographische Portraits [Mothers of Famous Men: Twelve Biographical Portraits]. TB 1356 (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN3-458-33056-9.
as publisher, with Sibylle Duda: ——— (1995). WahnsinnsFrauen. Zweiter Band [Insane Women. Vol. 2]. TB (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-38993-9.
as publisher, with Sibylle Duda: ——— (1999b). Wahnsinns Frauen. Dritter Band [Insane Women. Vol. 3]. TB (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-39334-0.
with Susanne Gretter (pub.): ——— (1999c). Berühmte Frauen: 300 Portraits [Famous Women: 300 Portraits] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN3-458-16949-0.
with Susanne Gretter (pub.): ——— (2001). Berühmte Frauen 2: 300 Portraits [Famous Women 2: 300 Portraits] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN3-458-17067-7.
——— (2008). Die Eier des Staatsoberhaupts und andere Glossen [The Head of State's Eggs, and Other Writings] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-0280-8.
——— (2009). Der Kaiser sagt Ja: und andere Glossen [The Kaiser says, 'Yes': and Other Writings] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-0455-0.
with Joey Horsley: ——— (2010). Frauengeschichten. Berühmte Frauen und ihre Freundinnen [Women's Stories: Famous Women and Their Women Friends] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-0634-9.
——— (2011). Deutsch auf Vorderfrau. Sprachkritische Glossen [Female-First German: Linguistic Commentary] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-0863-3.
——— (2013). Die dominante Kuh. Neue Glossen [The dominant cow. New Writings] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-1223-4.
——— (2014). Gerecht und Geschlecht: neue sprachkritische Glossen [Right and Gender: New Linguistic Writings] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-1428-3.
Offenbach, Judith (1981). Sonja: eine Melancholie für Fortgeschrittene [Sonja: Melancholia for Intermediates] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-37188-6.
"Mit Wissen und Witz im Einsatz für die Frau" [With Wisdom and Wit in Service to Women]. Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Mainz: VRM. 28 November 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
Luise F. Pusch; list of contributors at fembio.org. "FemBio Frauen Biographieforschung" [Women's Biographical Research]. Retrieved 18 February 2018. {{cite web}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
Louis, Chantal (13 January 2014). "Luise Pusch: Die Frauensprachlerin" [Luise Pusch: The Female Linguist]. Emma (in German). Cologne: Emma Frauenverlags. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
——— (1978). Kontrastive Untersuchungen zum italienischen gerundio: Instrumental- und Modalsätze und das Problem der Individuierung von Ereignissen [Contrastive Analysis of Italian Gerunds: Instrumental and Modal Sentences and the Problem of the Individuation of Events] (post-doctoral thesis at the University of Konstanz) (in German). Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN3-484-10321-3.
——— (1999a). Die Frau ist nicht der Rede wert: Aufsätze, Reden und Glossen [The Woman Is Not Worth Mentioning: Essays, Speeches and Commentary]] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-39421-5.
Pusch, Luise F. (6 June 2015). [Curriculum Vitae]. luisepusch.de (in German). Archived from the original on 15 March 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
Stötzel, Georg; Wengeler, Martin; Böke, Karin (1995). Kontroverse Begriffe: Geschichte des öffentlichen Sprachgebrauchs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 4. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN978-3-11-014106-1. OCLC 802718544. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
von Bönninghausen, Inge; Pusch, Luise F. (2014). Die Sprachwandlerin - Luise F. Pusch Zurufe und Einwürfe von Freundinnen und Weggefährtinnen; [eine Femmage zum 70. Geburtstag von Luise F. Pusch] [The Language Translator - Luise F. Pusch. Calls and suggestions from girlfriends and companions; [A femmage for the 70th birthday of Luise F. Pusch]] (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN978-3-8353-1427-6. OCLC 873424441.
Further readingedit
Inge von Bönninghausen: Die Sprachwandlerin - Luise F. Pusch. Zurufe und Einwürfe von Freundinnen und Weggefährtinnen. Eine Femmage zum 70. Geburtstag von Luise F. Pusch. [The Language Translator - Luise F. Pusch. Calls and suggestions from girlfriends and companions. A femmage for the 70th birthday of Luise F. Pusch] Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN978-3-8353-1427-6.
Ilse Lenz [de], Hiltrud Schroeder [de]: Die Neue Frauenbewegung in Deutschland. Abschied vom kleinen Unterschied. [The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the Small Difference] VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN978-3-531-14729-1.
Eva Rieger (pub.): Diese Frau ist der Rede wert: Festschrift für Luise Pusch. [This Woman Is Worth Mentioning: Festschrift for Luise Pusch] Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2004, ISBN3-8255-0477-8.
External linksedit
Press clippings about Luise F. Pusch (in German)
Pusch's blog (in German)
Chantal Louis: Luise Pusch: Die Frauensprachlerin. 2014 interview with Emma Pusch.
January 01, 1970
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Luise F Pusch news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message Luise F Pusch born 14 January 1944 in Gutersloh Germany is a German linguist She is regarded as the co founder of feminist linguistics in Germany along with Senta Tromel Plotz Luise F PuschLuise F Pusch in September 2013Born 1944 01 04 4 January 1944 age 80 GuterslohNationalityGermanOccupationLinguistYears active1970s Known forco founder of German feminist linguistics Contents 1 Life and education 2 Career 3 Awards 4 Publications 5 See also 6 References 7 Works cited 8 Further reading 9 External linksLife and education editLuise Pusch studied English Latin and linguistics at the University of Hamburg In 1972 she received her doctorate in English 1 In 1978 she qualified for the linguistics faculty at the University of Konstanz From 1979 to 1984 she was a Heisenberg Fellow in the field of feminist linguistic research Before feminist linguistics became her specialty she worked on syntactic issues such as construction of gerunds From 1982 to 1985 she held professorships in English and German in Leibniz University Hannover and in the University of Duisburg Essen In 1985 she was named adjunct professor at the University of Konstanz In 1990 1991 she was professor for women s studies at the University of Munster 2 Since 1986 Pusch has been partnered with U S Germanist Joey Horsley from Boston and splits her time between there and Hannover 3 Career editIn the mid 1970s U S feminists such as Robin Lakoff and others had begun to pay attention to the gender discrimination inherent in the language itself and the way it was used Feminist linguistics didn t originally develop out of the academic linguistic discipline but from theoreticians within oppressed groups 4 From those beginnings it was brought into the field of linguistics by two professors of linguistics Senta Tromel Plotz and Pusch who started the program of Feminist linguistics at the University of Konstanz The first essays to appear in Germany about the topic were in 1979 in the journal Osnabrucker Beitrage zur Sprachtheorie and in 1980 in Linguistische Berichte 4 Since the 1970s Pusch has been committed to a gender appropriate language for example in essays commentary discussions lectures and workshops In 1976 she started to write the autobiographical novel Sonja about her relationship to a suicidal partner After finishing it in 1979 it got published in 1980 under the pseudonym Judith Offenbach and turned out to be a significant influence to the German language lesbian movement of the time In her 1980 essay German as Men s Language Diagnosis and Therapy Ideas Das Deutsche als Mannersprache Diagnose und Therapievorschlage she wrote that standard German has a built in bias favoring males that this is problematic and that the simplest solution to the problem lies in partial de genderization of the language To that end the feminine suffixes in and innen could be done away with and contrary to the existing usage of the language the male article der ein of the noun would be replaced by the female version die eine female professors would become simply die Professor instead of Professorin or eine Schriftsteller writer instead of Schriftstellerin Due to the expected non acceptance of such a proposal she pleaded for the stepped up use of Binnen I e g SchulerIn schoolchild in order to avoid use of the paired word form Schulerinnen und Schuler schoolgirls and schoolboys Besides her linguistic work she built a biographical database containing the biographies of 30 000 women 5 Awards editThe association BucherFrauen de a network of women in the book industry chose Luise F Pusch as BookWoman of the Year 2004 6 On her 70th Birthday Pusch was honored with the commemorative Sprachwandlerin award 7 The Darmstadt based Luise Buchner Society awarded Pusch their 5th Luise Buchner Prize for Media studies in November 2016 8 Publications editThis section may contain excessive or irrelevant examples Please help improve the article by adding descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples February 2021 as publisher 1983 Feminismus Inspektion der Herrenkultur Ein Handbuch Feminism Inspection of Men s Culture A Handbook NF 1192 in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 11192 2 1984 Aufsatze und Glossen zur feministischen Linguistik German as Men s Language Essays and Commentary on Feminist Linguistics in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 11217 1 as publisher 1985 Schwestern beruhmter Manner Zwolf biographische Portraits Sisters of Famous Men Twelve biographical Portraits TB in German Frankfurt am Main Insel ISBN 3 458 32496 8 as publisher 1987 Beruhmte Frauen Kalender Famous Women Calendar Suhrkamp Taschenbucher 4537 in German Vol Band 1515 Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 38015 X ISSN 0930 9721 as publisher 1988 Tochter beruhmter Manner Neun biographische Portraits Daughters of Famous Men Nine biographical portraits TB 979 in German Frankfurt am Main Insel ISBN 3 458 32679 0 1990 Alle Menschen werden Schwestern feministische Sprachkritik All the People Become Sisters Feminist Linguistics in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 11565 0 as publisher with Sibylle Duda 1992 WahnsinnsFrauen Insane Women TB 1876 in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 38376 0 1993a Ladies first ein Gesprach uber Feminismus Sprache und Sexualitat Ladies First A Conversation About Feminism Language and Sexuality in German Bamberg Palette ISBN 3 928062 07 7 1993b Ladies first Ein Gesprach uber Feminismus Sprache und Sexualitat Ladies First A Conversation About Feminism Language and Sexuality in German Bamberg Palette ISBN 3 928062 07 7 as publisher 1994 Mutter beruhmter Manner Zwolf biographische Portraits Mothers of Famous Men Twelve Biographical Portraits TB 1356 in German Frankfurt am Main Insel ISBN 3 458 33056 9 as publisher with Sibylle Duda 1995 WahnsinnsFrauen Zweiter Band Insane Women Vol 2 TB in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 38993 9 as publisher with Sibylle Duda 1999b Wahnsinns Frauen Dritter Band Insane Women Vol 3 TB in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 39334 0 with Susanne Gretter pub 1999c Beruhmte Frauen 300 Portraits Famous Women 300 Portraits in German Frankfurt am Main Insel ISBN 3 458 16949 0 with Susanne Gretter pub 2001 Beruhmte Frauen 2 300 Portraits Famous Women 2 300 Portraits in German Frankfurt am Main Insel ISBN 3 458 17067 7 2008 Die Eier des Staatsoberhaupts und andere Glossen The Head of State s Eggs and Other Writings in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 0280 8 2009 Der Kaiser sagt Ja und andere Glossen The Kaiser says Yes and Other Writings in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 0455 0 with Joey Horsley 2010 Frauengeschichten Beruhmte Frauen und ihre Freundinnen Women s Stories Famous Women and Their Women Friends in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 0634 9 2011 Deutsch auf Vorderfrau Sprachkritische Glossen Female First German Linguistic Commentary in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 0863 3 2013 Die dominante Kuh Neue Glossen The dominant cow New Writings in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 1223 4 2014 Gerecht und Geschlecht neue sprachkritische Glossen Right and Gender New Linguistic Writings in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 1428 3 Offenbach Judith 1981 Sonja eine Melancholie fur Fortgeschrittene Sonja Melancholia for Intermediates in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 37188 6 See also edit nbsp Feminism portal nbsp Germany portal nbsp Linguistics portal Feminist language reform Gender neutral language Gender neutral pronoun Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender role in language German orthography German nouns Grammatical gender in German Language and gender Language and thought Lavender linguistics Sapir Whorf hypothesis Women s studiesReferences edit Pusch 1978 Vita 2015 Louis 2014 a b Stotzel 1995 p 518 Fembio 2018 Pusch 1999a von Bonninghausen 2014 AZ 2016 Works cited edit Mit Wissen und Witz im Einsatz fur die Frau With Wisdom and Wit in Service to Women Allgemeine Zeitung in German Mainz VRM 28 November 2016 Retrieved 19 February 2018 Luise F Pusch list of contributors at fembio org FemBio Frauen Biographieforschung Women s Biographical Research Retrieved 18 February 2018 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a author2 has generic name help Louis Chantal 13 January 2014 Luise Pusch Die Frauensprachlerin Luise Pusch The Female Linguist Emma in German Cologne Emma Frauenverlags Retrieved 19 February 2018 1978 Kontrastive Untersuchungen zum italienischen gerundio Instrumental und Modalsatze und das Problem der Individuierung von Ereignissen Contrastive Analysis of Italian Gerunds Instrumental and Modal Sentences and the Problem of the Individuation of Events post doctoral thesis at the University of Konstanz in German Tubingen Niemeyer ISBN 3 484 10321 3 1999a Die Frau ist nicht der Rede wert Aufsatze Reden und Glossen The Woman Is Not Worth Mentioning Essays Speeches and Commentary in German Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp ISBN 3 518 39421 5 Pusch Luise F 6 June 2015 Vita Curriculum Vitae luisepusch de in German Archived from the original on 15 March 2008 Retrieved 19 February 2018 Stotzel Georg Wengeler Martin Boke Karin 1995 Kontroverse Begriffe Geschichte des offentlichen Sprachgebrauchs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in German Vol 4 Berlin Walter de Gruyter ISBN 978 3 11 014106 1 OCLC 802718544 Retrieved 5 January 2018 von Bonninghausen Inge Pusch Luise F 2014 Die Sprachwandlerin Luise F Pusch Zurufe und Einwurfe von Freundinnen und Weggefahrtinnen eine Femmage zum 70 Geburtstag von Luise F Pusch The Language Translator Luise F Pusch Calls and suggestions from girlfriends and companions A femmage for the 70th birthday of Luise F Pusch in German Gottingen Wallstein ISBN 978 3 8353 1427 6 OCLC 873424441 Further reading editInge von Bonninghausen Die Sprachwandlerin Luise F Pusch Zurufe und Einwurfe von Freundinnen und Weggefahrtinnen Eine Femmage zum 70 Geburtstag von Luise F Pusch The Language Translator Luise F Pusch Calls and suggestions from girlfriends and companions A femmage for the 70th birthday of Luise F Pusch Wallstein Gottingen 2014 ISBN 978 3 8353 1427 6 Ilse Lenz de Hiltrud Schroeder de Die Neue Frauenbewegung in Deutschland Abschied vom kleinen Unterschied The New Women s Movement in Germany Farewell to the Small Difference VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden 2008 ISBN 978 3 531 14729 1 Eva Rieger pub Diese Frau ist der Rede wert Festschrift fur Luise Pusch This Woman Is Worth Mentioning Festschrift for Luise Pusch Centaurus Herbolzheim 2004 ISBN 3 8255 0477 8 External links editPress clippings about Luise F Pusch in German Pusch s blog in German Chantal Louis Luise Pusch Die Frauensprachlerin 2014 interview with Emma Pusch Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Luise F Pusch amp oldid 1217141089, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
