Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies

💭 In een nieuw #essay ontleedt Ruben Hordijk 'Dochters van Lucy' van Jan Van Zanden - een drie miljoen jaar #gendergeschiedenis samenvat in 187 pagina's, zonder #feminisme, #kolonialisme of klassenanalyse.

💥 Tijd voor feministische #counternarratieven!

👉 Lees het essay: lnkd.in/e6UNeCGa

💥 Birth is not meant to be violent

In their PhD research, Rodante van der Waal examines obstetric violence and the fight for reproductive justice - calling for abolitionalist care that dismantles harmful healthcare systems.

👉 Read the full #PhD summary: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🎓 #Diversiteitsmanagement belooft verandering - maar kan ook ongelijkheid versterken. In haar #proefschrift onderzocht Nina van Douwen het doen van #diversiteitswerk binnen het Nederlandse leger.

👉 Lees haar inzichten en aanbevelingen op onze website: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Ik mag dit jaar de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing verzorgen.
Wees welkom!

💥 How can male femininities disrupt gender norms and power structures?

✨ Albert Solanes Valldaura reviews 'Male Femininities' - a critical collection on gender, embodiment, and resistance beyond the binary.

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#bookreview #genderstudies #queertheory

🤘Metal and Feminist Resistance

💥 Ilse Claassen explored how Indonesian metal band Voice of Baceprot challenges colonial power and gender oppression through sound and style.

👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#DecolonialFeminism #GenderStudies #MetalStudies #Indonesia #VoiceOfBaceprot

🤳 How do hijab fashion influencers reshape #Muslim #femininity online?

💡 In her new article, Laura Mora shows how #Instagram visibility both challenges Islamophobic stereotypes and reproduces other inequalities through entrepreneurial and hyper-feminine ideals.

👉 Read it here: lnkd.in/e-VFywMS

💥 Our new issue is out - perfect for some holiday reading. It brings together a range of timely, thought-provoking research topics.

A good moment for fresh insights as we head into the new year! ✨

👉 Discover the issue: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#genderstudies #feministresearch #academia

📖 #Boekentip: 'Handicap: Een Bevrijding' van Anaïs Van Ertvelde. Dr Laura Mora noemt het “een boek dat confronteert en de ogen opent”

💭 Een aanrader voor wie kritisch wil nadenken over culturele constructie van handicap, in relatie tot gender en seksualiteit.

🔗 Lees de review: lnkd.in/e7YXWkXH

✨ 30-urenwerkweek getest bij Femma! ✨

Francisca Mullens onderzocht de effecten van zo'n verkorte werkweek: meer #werk-privébalans en tijd voor zelfzorg, maar ook nieuwe werkuitdagingen.

👉 Lees meer: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

💭 Zou jij een kortere werkweek willen?

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✨ Throwback to our Singlehood Special Issue launch!

Single people still face barriers in housing, finances, and everyday expectations. Singlehood activism means engaging policymakers, challenging stigma, and valuing the social families we create beyond coupledom.

👉 Read the issue: lnkd.in/eiTirTwe

Portret hoogleraar Judi Mesman feestelijk onthuld in Senaatskamer Een heel bijzonder moment in de Senaatskamer van het Academiegebouw: het portret van hoogleraar Judi Mesman is onthuld. ‘De Universiteit Leiden geeft slechts haar voornaamste wetenschappers een plek i...

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❣️ Singlehood is far more complex than we often think

A new study by Van Gasse, Claessens and Mortelmans shows how gender and migration background shape young adults’ experiences and expectations around singlehood.

👉 Read more: lnkd.in/ePc3aide

#GenderStudies #Singlehood #Intersectionality

📢 Call for Papers!

What stories of HIV/AIDS remain untold? For our special issue, we are looking for intersectional narratives of HIV/AIDS in literature and media.

✔️ Interested? Submit your abstract by 21 Nov 2025

👉 Read the full call: lnkd.in/eyTAKM35

#CallForPapers #GenderStudies #HIVAIDS

🔮 On Halloween, our TikTok feeds are full of witches, goddesses and femme fatales - showing how femininity goes dark and divine. Laila van Berge explores TikTok trends like #darkfemininity, revealing how empowerment and stereotypes intertwine.

✨ Read all about it: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

💜 The politics of asexual grief 💜

In her latest essay, Kathi Ammann reclaims asexual grief as a queer political affect - arguing how feeling ‘out of place’ can resist norms of compulsory sexuality.

📖 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#Asexuality #QueerTheory #GenderStudies #Queer

📢 Belgium’s Welfare Minister proposed allowing supervision of pregnant women - even involuntarily - if seen as a risk to their unborn child. The debate raises urgent questions about #autonomy and #care.

❗ Time to revisit this TvG article on reproductive justice: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🌈 How do queer Iranians find love & solidarity under a restrictive regime? In “Queering Iran, Digitally”, Ladan Rahbari shows how a Telegram dating channel can be a space for activism, community & resistance.

👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#GenderStudies #Iran #Queer #Activism

💥 In her new essay, Ea Utoft (@eautoft.bsky.social) calls for integrating feminist and anti-racist activism into singlehood research, uncovering how singles actively resist stigma and reclaim agency.

👉 Read the full essay: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#Singlehood #Feminism #GenderStudies

🎬 How are single women represented on screen?

A study of Dutch films & TV by Sandra Becker and Willemien Sanders shows single female characters are mostly young, white, middle-class & heterosexual - revealing a stark lack of diversity.

👉 Read the full article: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

✨ Singlehood isn’t just personal - it’s political.

In our latest issue, Mante Vertelyte interviews Kinneret Lahad on researching singlehood, connecting it to affect theory and intersectionality.

👉 Read the interview: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#Singlehood #GenderStudies #Feminism

Open access‼️

A bit personal for me, but here I am, writing for @tvgenderstudies.bsky.social about my experiences as a WoC with a PhD, navigating both the academia and the dating scene.

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✨ Singlehood is on the rise - but what meanings do we attach to it? Mio Birk's new article explores how cultural narratives frame singlehood: as concern, opportunity, and protest, revealing the politics behind what might seem like a personal choice.

👉 Read more: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

🚨 Trump’s recent remarks on autism reduce it to harmful stereotypes. We counter this by highlighting research in gender & disability studies, recognising the complexities and lived experiences of neurodivergence.

Read these articles:
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💭 In her new work, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻-𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘂 reflects on being a single, childfree woman of colour with a PhD. Through autoethnography, she explores the triality of race, gender & singlehood in academia - a highly neoliberalised and often hostile workplace.

🔗 Read here: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

✨ 'Planning Trips, Not Weddings' by Kimberly Martinez Phillips explores how single, childfree women of colour are redefining singlehood, creating their own identities, and resisting the idea of damsels in distress waiting for Prince Charming.

👉 Read full article: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

What do cat ladies, herbivores and incels have in common?

They all feature in my newly published essay on the competing meanings of Global Singlehood.

Read it in the special issue 'Towards Intersectional Feminist Singlehood Studies' in @tvgenderstudies.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

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My New Article is Here! The second article from my dissertation research “Planning Trips not Weddings: Intersecting Single and Childfree Women of Color” has now been published online in the new issue of Tijdschrift voor Gend...

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✨ As #singlehood is rising, it deserves more scholarly attention - moving beyond its framing as a byproduct of coupledom.

📚 Our new issue therefore explores #intersectional singlehood and what it teaches us about power, identity, and belonging.

📖 Read now: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...