Brigitte H. Bechtold, Ph.D

Sociology
   and Director, Center for Research on Poverty (CROP) 

Anspach Hall 137
(989) 774-3424
Brigitte.H.Bechtold@cmich.edu
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Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1982
M.A., Michigan State University, 1970
Lic., Free University of Brussels, 1967
Cand., Free University of Brussels, 1965
 
 

Teaching Expertise

Research Methods
Sociology of sex and gender
Gender and Development
Social Problems
Sociology of knowledge
 
 
 

Research Interests

Game Theoretic Models of Gender Violence
The Social Thought of V. Woolf
Feminist Research Methods
Gender Wage Gap
Multidimensional Definition of Slavery
Socio-Economic Causes of Infanticide
Political Economy of Poverty
 
 

Selected Publications

"Infanticide in 19th-Century France:  A Quantitative Interpretation."  Review of Radical Political Economics  33, No.2. (40 pages forthcoming).

"More than A Room and Three Guineas: Understanding
Virginia Woolf's Social Thought," Journal of International Women's Studies 1 no. 2 (May 2000); pp. 1-18

"Social Services for Immigrant Women in European Nations: Lessons from the Council of Europe's Project on Human Dignity and Social Exclusion," Chapter 10, pp. 198-218 in Gender, Migration and Public Policy, Gregory Kelson and Debra DeLaet, ed. Macmillan Publishers 1999. With Ludmila Dziewiecka-Bokun.
 

 

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