Claudia Honegger is professor emerita of sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. In 1980, she received her doctorate in sociology, from the University of Bremen. She completed her habilitation in sociology, in 1990, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She is a founding member of the journal Feministische Studien. Her primary areas of research and teaching include feminism and Critical Theory, the history and sociology of gender, and qualitative social research. Her publications include Die Hexen der Neuzeit: Studien zur Sozialgeschichte eines kulturellen Deutungsmusters (1978); Die Ordnung der Geschlechter: Die Wissenschaften vom Menschen und das Weib(1991); Gender: Die Tücken einer Kategorie (2001), co-edited with Caroline Arni and Strukturierte Verantwortungslosigkeit: Berichte aus der Bankenwelt (2010), co-edited with Sighard Neckel and Chantal Magnin.