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Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 20, Issue 1, 2017
Volume 20, Issue 1, 2017
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Mannen gaan vóór
More LessAbstractA hundred years ago, Dutch men won the fight for the vote. This revision of the constitution was a product of ‘pacification’ – a deal between confessional and liberal and social democratic parties. In historiography, the arrangement of women’s suffrage in 1917 is seen as, at best, a much less interesting historic fact than this victory of men. The new constitution granted women the right to be candidates, but women, of all classes, had to wait until men would grant them the right to actively vote themselves. This essay sheds light on the last years of the struggle for women’s suffrage by exploring the adventures of the association ‘De Neutrale Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht’ (The Neutral Association for Women’s Suffrage). The leaders of this association left the large ‘Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht’ (Association for Women’s Suffrage). According to Wilhelmina Drucker, one of the leaders of ‘De Neutrale’ and the most outspoken advocate of the purity of equal rights claim, the 1917 arrangement was a victory of the male sex, and not a class victory. In the course of events, the majority of ‘De Neutrale’ also resigned to the promise of a vote in the future. The political establishment watched over the hegemonic privilege of men as long as possible.
Exploration of this ‘small history’ in the long history of citizens’ political rights sheds light on the problematic relation between gender and citizenship until the very end of the struggle for the vote. It highlights the clash in the women’s suffrage movement between a radical minority and the realistic majority and the difficult relationship between the idea of equal rights for all citizens as a core democratic principle, and the force of day to day power politics of political parties.
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Een man! Zelfs een vader! Over feminisme!1
By Mineke BoschAbstractIn this contribution Bosch, sharply criticises Ewoud Engelen’s pamphlet De mythe van de gemaakte vrouw. Nieuw licht op het feminisme (The myth of the fabricated woman. New light on feminism, 2016), which he wrote at the request of debate center ‘Nieuw Licht’. Instead of an analysis of De Beauvoir’s relevance for contemporary feminisms, he gives us a generalising diatribe against ‘career feminists’ who are encapsulated by neoliberalist lust for power and betray good old sociocritical feminism. It places him in the same category of good old socialists such as Pieter Jelles Troelstra, accusing suffragists of ‘bourgeois feminism’ (damesfeminisme).
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Entangled histories
More LessAbstractIn this article I investigate changing household labour relations and women’s work in the Dutch empire. I question how colonial connections affected the division of work between men, women, and children, not only in the colony – the Dutch East Indies (i.c. Java), but also in the metropolis – the Netherlands. Entanglements can be found in the influences of colonial economic policies on both colony and metropolis, as well as in the more indirect effects of colonial exploitation and taxation, and, finally in the sphere of sociopolitics and ideologies. I will analyse the entanglements between the Netherlands and Java in these domains, comparing similarities and differences, but also paying attention to the connections and transfers between both parts of the Dutch empire. Although some of the conditions and developments were highly specific to the Dutch empire, I aim to show that the method of comparing and establishing direct and indirect connections between different parts of an empire can lead to new insights that can also be applied to other parts of the world and different time periods.
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Gendered study progress in Flemish academic bachelor programmes
Authors: Els Consuegra & Sebastiano CincinnatoAbstractIn Flanders (Belgium), less than half the students enrolling in university succeed. Previous research has linked this to students’ gender, socio-economic, migration, and socio-cultural background. However, most Flemish studies focus on study success in the first year of university. Additionally, the research investigates the effects of socio-demographic and educational background of students, but in an additive way without much attention to the intersections of different axes of diversity. In this exploratory study, we want to investigate the relationship between student gender and students’ representation and study progress in academic bachelor programmes and to what extent the gender effect is homogeneous or divergent for different subpopulations of students. We use data from the Flemish Database Higher Education. Findings indicate, firstly, that the humanities show less gender segregation and more social diversity in general than the fields of STEM (sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics) and medicine. Secondly, in general, men tend to take more time to complete the bachelor programme except for middle class students where women are more at risk for study delay.
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Emancipation on thin ice
Authors: Michiel De Proost & Gily Coene
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Editorial
Authors: Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza, Rolando Vázquez & Sophie Withaeckx
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