Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (born 14 October 1946 in Freiburg), is a German sociologist. She holds a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.^[1]

After studying sociology, psychology, and philosophy in Munich, she obtained her PhD in 1973. After several fellowships, she graduated from Munich University in 1987.

Her main research interest is in social changes and the changing situation of the institution of the family. She was married to German sociologist Ulrich Beck until his death in 2015.

• Das halbierte Leben (1980)
• Vom Geburtenrückgang zum ganz normalen Leben (1984)
• Welche Gesundheit wollen wir?: Dilemmata des medizintechnischen Fortschritts. Suhrkamp. 1995. ISBN 9783518119563.
• Die Kinderfrage. C. H. Beck. 2006 [First published 1988]. ISBN 9783406547768.
• Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe (1990)
  • Ulrich Beck; Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (1995). The normal chaos of love. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-7456-1382-6.
• Was kommt nach der Familie? (2000)
  • Reinventing the family: in search of new lifestyles. Wiley-Blackwell. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7456-2214-9.
• Individualization: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences. SAGE. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7619-6112-3.
• The social implications of bioengineering. Humanities Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-391-03841-7.
• "Ein Türke geht nicht in die Oper" – was Deutsche über Türken wissen, in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2), Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5

• Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim: Die Kinderfrage
• "Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim", LMU Ringvorlesung: "Wir und die anderen" Voraussetzungen für Gewalt und Frieden
• Private Homepage of Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim