Learning and Belonging in Ladies-Only Kickboxing

Kickboxing has been promoted to young Muslim and Moroccan-Dutch women as a tool for empowerment. How can we understand their participation in sports? How are their practices influenced by dominant discourses, policies, and media on the female Muslim body?

Jasmijn Rana • October 24, 2017

Will women talk about the war?

How do women talk about violent experiences? How can we understand women’s stories of war without reproducing stereotypes of female victimhood or subservience? Rosi Aryal won the Speckmann award with her MA research on war time violence in Sierra Leone.

Rosi Aryal • February 16, 2016

A new boost for feminism

The word feminism has negative connotations. Yet, the stereotypes of feminists as ‘man-hating’, unsexy, complaining women have recently been shaken by Emma Watson, Beyoncé, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How did they give feminism a new stimulus?

Floor Hendriks • November 25, 2014 • 6 comments

January: Fieldwork Month

January is traditionally known as the leatherworking month or wolf month, but I spent this January involved in the anthropological tradition of fieldwork, by supervising four groups of students carrying out field research on De Veluwe.

Henrike Florusbosch • February 06, 2014

14.8%

Before the millenium the Netherlands had one of the lowest percentages of female full professors in the world. What has changed since then and what does it tell us about gender equality in academia?

Henrike Florusbosch • November 27, 2013 • 3 comments

Glamour ladies

Rethinking modernity by studying 20th century Asian divas.

Bart Barendregt • June 25, 2013

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