Christina Benninghaus

Dr. Christina Benninghaus is a Senior Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany. She has taught at the Universities of Halle, Bochum, Gießen, Bielefeld, and at Wadham College, University of Oxford (2017-2021). Her research has focused on the history of girlhood, on social protest and on the history of reproduction, including artificial insemination, voluntary and involuntary childlessness, male sterility, and adoption as a reproductive technology.
In 2023, she initiated and co-authored a position paper on the state of the art of women’s and gender history (https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2983040). In recent years, her research has focused on the possibilities and problems of writing gender history on the basis of visual sources.
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