# Gabriele Dietze

Gabriele Dietze (born 1951 in Wiesbaden) is a German culturologist, university teacher, gender-theorist, essayist and author.

## Life and work

Gabriele Dietze studied philosophy, German studies and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1977, she received the Magister Artium in Neuerer German Philology.
In 1979, she published The Overcoming of Speechlessness, the first German anthology of theoretical writings from the new women's movement. From 1980 to 1991, she worked as chief editor at Rotbuch Verlag in Berlin. From 1987 to 2001, she was editor of the Rotbuch crime series and worked as a freelance author, essayist and literary critic.
In 1996, he received his Promotion as a Dr. phil. with the Dissertation Genre and Gender. Gender relations in the American Private detective novel in American Studies with a focus on Cultural Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the FU Berlin. In 2003, she studied American Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin with the thesis "Justice Negotiation. On the competition between race and gender emancipation discourses from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the O.J. Simpson Trial Habilitation.
She worked at various universities as a research assistant, private lecturer and visiting professor, among others. at Columbia University in New York City, as Max-Kade Professor of German at the University of Virginia, as a multiple Harris Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and as a Bosch visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Basel and at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has worked on numerous academic research projects.
Her research interests include German and American literature and culture as well as issues of gender research. She wrote numerous books and essays.
For her concepts of ethnosexism and sexual exceptionalism, Gabriele Dietze is criticized for arguing antifeminist and homophobic.

## Publications

* Sexueller Exzeptionalismus. Überlegenheitsnarrative in Migrationsabwehr und Rechtspopulismus. transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4708-2.
* Ethnosexismus. Sex-Mob-Narrative um die Kölner Sylvesternacht. In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 2 (1), 2016.
* Weiße Frauen in Bewegung. Genealogien und Konkurrenzen von Race- und Genderpolitiken. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 3-89942-517-0.
* Kritik des Okzidentalismus. Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu (Neo-)Orientalismus und Geschlecht. Hrsg. von Claudia Brunner, G. D., Edith Wenzel. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1124-3 (2. Auflage 2010).
* Gender als interdependente Kategorie. Neue Perspektiven auf Intersektionalität, Diversität und Heterogenität. G. D. in Ko-Autorschaft mit Katharina Walgenbach, Antje Hornscheidt und Kerstin Palm. Budrich, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto 2007 (2., durchgesehene Auflage, ISBN 978-3-86649-496-1).
* Gender Kontrovers. Grenzen einer Kategorie. Festschrift für Renate Hof. Hrsg. von G. D, Sabine Hark. Ulrike Helmer, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-89741-215-6.
* „Holy war" and Gender. Violence in religious discourses / „Gotteskrieg" und Geschlecht. Gewaltdiskurse in der Religion. Hrsg. von Christina von Braun, Ulrike Brunotte, G. D., Daniela Hrzàn, Gabriele Jähnert, Dagmar Pruin. Lit, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8109-1.
* Weiß – Weißsein – whiteness. Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassismus. Hrsg. von Martina Tissberger, G. D., Jana Husmann-Kastein, Daniela Hrzán. Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006 (2., durchgesehene Auflage 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57982-4).
* Multiple Persönlichkeit. Krankheit. Medium oder Metapher. Hrsg. und eingeleitet von Christina von Braun, G. D. Neue Kritik, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-8015-0326-7.
* Hardboiled woman. Geschlechterkrieg im amerikanischen Kriminalroman. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-50411-7.
* Todeszeichen. Freitod in Selbstzeugnissen. Gesammelt und eingeleitet von G. D. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1981 (überarbeitete Neuauflage 1989, ISBN 3-472-61329-7).
* Die Überwindung der Sprachlosigkeit. Texte aus der neuen Frauenbewegung. Eingeleitet und herausgegeben von G. D. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1979 (= Sammlung Luchterhand. Bd. 276), ISBN 3-472-61276-2 (2. Aufl. 1981, 3. Aufl. 1989).