Tim Rütten
researcher staffCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
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Tim Rütten has been working as a research associate at the Charité Institute of Medical History since June 2023. He is currently involved in the research project "Risky Hormones" / "Risky Hormones, pregnant patients and the contested science of birth defects: the rise and fall of hormone pregnancy tests in the FRG and UK, 1950-81" (DFG/AHRC). Previously, he was a research fellow at the University of Vienna in Women's and Gender History/Nineteenth-Century History from 2015 to 2020 and a junior fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Linz in Vienna from 2020 to 2022. He wrote his dissertation on the discourse of maidservants in the early modern period.
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Memberships
- ÖGGF
- fernetzt Junges Forschungsnetzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte
Research focus
- Gender history of modern times
- History of medicine
- History of culture and science
- History of work
Selected publications
Ein schmutziges Geschäft, in: ÖZG 3/2022, Wien 2023, 35 – 57.
Gemeinsam mit Jessica Richter, Editorial. Ungleichheit, Prekarität und Eigensinn, in: ÖZG 3/2022, 5 -10.
Gemeinsam mit Jessica Richter, „[S]ie war männersüchtig, vergnügungssüchtig, unrein, faul ‚bis zum Exceß’[…].“ Wandel und Kontinuität im häuslichen Dienst im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Elisabeth Loinig, Oliver Kühschelm, Willibald Rosner, Stefan Eminger (Hg.), Niederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert 2, St. Pölten 2021.
Wahnsinn aus Heimweh im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Dienstmägde zwischen Normalisierung, Disziplinierung und Delinquenz, in: Alexia Bumbaris, Veronika Helfert, Jessica Richter, Brigitte Semanek und Karolina Sigmund, Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte un/diszipliniert? Aktuelle Beiträge aus der jungen Forschung (= Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte 11), Linz 2016.
Vita Tim Rütten
Tim Rütten studied Medieval and Modern History, German Philology and Philosophy in Cologne and Paris. From 2015 to 2020, he worked at the Institute of History at the University of Vienna as a prae-doc for women's and gender history/nineteenth-century history and as a lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt. This was followed by a fellowship as a junior fellow at the IFK/Vienna of the Kunstuni Linz from 2020 to 2022. As part of the fellowship, he spent three months in Urbino, Italy and nine months in Urbana-Champaign, USA as a visiting researcher. In 2023, he completed his dissertation Querelle des servantes. The Discourse of Servants (16th - 18th centuries) defended. Currently, Tim Rütten is a research associate in the Risky Hormones project at the Charité in Berlin. His research interests lie in gender history of the early modern and modern periods, the history of science and medicine.
