Brigitte H. Bechtold, Ph.D

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

Anspach Hall 137
(989) 774-3424
becht1bh@cmich.edu
Web page
 

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

 

European Studies

Global Social Justice

Research Methods
Sociology of sex and gender
Sociology of knowledge
 
 

Research Interests

 

Game Theoretic Models of Gender Violence
The Social Thought of V. Woolf
Gender Wage Gap
Socio-Economic Causes of Infanticide

Sociological Study of European Allotment Gardens
Political Economy of Poverty
 
 Current projects

Current research activities:  Gender socialization in children's literature (Pippi Longstocking); weekend gardens in European countries, and their contribution to non-material aspects of social welfare; survey of inductive/deductive approaches in economics literature; role of mathematics in feminist scholarship; using the world values survey to teach about globalization.

Additional research interests:  Minimum wage issues, including studies of living wages in Michigan; human poverty, especially in relation to globalization; the changing gender wage gap for sex-segregated occupations.

 

Selected Publications

"Children's Issues in Morocco," chapter forthcoming in Children's Issues Worldwide; The Middle East and North Africa, ed. by Ghada Talhami.

Bechtold, Brigitte and Donna Cooper Graves, Killing Infants:  Studies in the Worldwide Practice of Infanticide.  Lewiston, NY:  Edwin Mellon Press, 2006.   This book also contains a substantive introductory chapter (co-authored) and an additional chapter authored by me, entitled "The Changing Value of Female Offspring in Late 19th Century France; Evidence from Secondary Sex Ratios."

The "Art and Political Economy" special issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics.  2004, Volume 36 (September).

"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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