Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 17, Issue 4, 2014

Abstract There is a consensus in the neuroscientific literature that brains are either male or female, and that ‘brain sex’ is a fixed, immutable trait. Feminist critics have challenged this idea, raising questions, for example, about brain plasticity (the role of sociocultural factors in the emergence and endurance of brain structure and function). However, neuroscientific studies of sex/gender differences still rarely consider these fac Read More

Abstract Somalische vrouwen zijn reeds lang militair actief in de Ogaden, een Somalische regio in Oost-Ethiopië. In de Ogadenoorlog (1977-1978) tussen Somalië en Ethiopië namen zij diverse rollen op zich. Dit artikel onderzoekt wat deze rollen waren en welke motieven Somalische vrouwen vandaag aanhalen voor hun deelname aan de Ogadenoorlog. Daarnaast argumenteer ik dat deze vrouwelijke oud-strijders een belangrij Read More

Abstract Dr Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a feminist, Palestinian professor at the Hebrew University in East Jerusalem. Drawing on her practises as a social worker for vulnerable Palestinian women, she passionately advocates that critical scholarship should attentively listen to the personal stories of women and girls. For Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, she spoke about often unnoticed and unclassified acts of women’s resista Read More

Abstract Homonationalism is a recent topic of debate in the field of queer studies, with scholars such as Jasbir Puar and Jin Haritaworn, Tauqir, & Erdem arguing that homonationalist discourse others Muslims by constructing them as homophobic and thus ‘backwards’, as opposed to Western ‘progressive’ acceptance of homosexuality. However, these arguments have not adequately addressed the adoption and reinforcement Read More