On December 9, 2025, on the occasion of Cornelia Goethe's 275th birthday, this year's Cornelia Goethe Salon will take place which will be organized by the Sponsors of the Cornelia Goethe Center. On this evening, the Cornelia Goethe Prize, worth €2,000, will be awarded for outstanding academic work in the field of women's and gender studies. This year, Sophie Bauer will receive the prize for her sociological dissertation "‘Das Natürlichste was eine Frau haben kann’ - Eine Soziologie der Menstruation".
Sophie Bauer was a doctoral fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation and, as a member of the GRADE Center Gender, submitted her dissertation at the Institute of Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since October 2023, she has been a research assistant in the “Biotechnology, Nature, and Society” department of the Institute of Sociology. She is also a member of PRiNA, an interdisciplinary group of young researchers on the “Politics of Reproduction.”
In July, her dissertation was published by Campus Verlag: »Das Natürlichste, was eine Frau haben kann«, ein Buch von Sophie Bauer - Campus Verlag
Recently, Sophie Bauer has collaborated with the Gunda Werner Institute, the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy, and Alisa Tretau with disruptif e.V. (Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger) to curate the festival “Reproductive Futures: Feminist Visions for Equitable Care,” which will take place from November 21-22, 2025. The festival aims to bring together actors from science, art, activism, and practice to shed light on central questions about the future of reproduction, family, and care work in an interdisciplinary and intersectional way.
We warmly congratulate Sophie Bauer!