Browsing by Subject "Gender Studies (Research)"
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A plural platform of opinions or a basis for division and hostility? Facebook newsfeed framing and its impact on the Dutch political moral
(2018)With this research I want to move beyond where other literature and large-scale studies on the impact of Facebook and new media have stopped. Previous scholarship has underexposed individuals’ experiences with the platform ... -
Against Overpopulation: A Critique of Environmental Malthusianism
(2022)In this thesis I analyse the argument that there are “too many people” on Earth and that we need to reduce the world population. I trace how the argument has been used throughout history, starting with the work of Thomas ... -
Caring Against the Family: Kinship, State, and Social Reproduction
(2020)Traditionally, the nuclear family is posited as the prime location to meet both material and relational needs. Within poststructuralism, this primacy emerges out of a heteronormative framework of legitimation, in which ... -
Controlling Bodies in the Face of Extinction
(2019)This thesis will discuss how the fear of extinction is tied to the control of bodies in several ways within the novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Dawn by Octavia E. Butler. Firstly I discuss how the fear ... -
Conversations on Insider Activism: Civil servants & social justice activism in the municipality of Rotterdam
(2021)This thesis investigates how civil servants negotiate their social justice activism in the workspace. With the use of a narrative focused interview method, stories of lived experiences by civil servants with an activist ... -
Creators of Change: A comparative analysis on the collaborative network of the feminist triangle in Iceland and the Netherlands and their contribution to the developments of gender equality policies
(2018)Gender equality is currently a hot topic in international policymaking. Since the UN’s Decade for Women (1976-1985) several countries have integrated gender equality as one of their goals in governance. In recent studies, ... -
Deportation, Deportabilities and racial formations: Colonial continuities of European deportation practices and their externalization
(2022)This thesis explores the European migration control and its externalization in its colonial continuities, through the focus on the entanglement of deportations, deportabilities and racial formations. In doing so, this ... -
Diffractive Power & Intra-Active Subjectivity: A (Re)turn to Queer Women's Self-Writing
(2021)As a contribution to present and future conceptualizations of power and subjectivity in feminist research and practice, this thesis (re)turns to past accounts of queer women’s self- writing. By tracing the formations of ... -
Drawing a Blank; A Content Analysis of Dutch Colonial Literature
(2019)This thesis analyzes the ways in which skin colors are described in the three novels Hoe hij raad van Indië werd (1888), De stille kracht (1900) and Rubber (1931). These novels were written by Dutch authors and are concerned ... -
GENDER EQUALITY IN THE POLITICAL SPHERE OF CYPRUS
(2020)In this research, I investigate the reasons for women’s underrepresentation in the political sphere of Cyprus as it is interpreted from the experiences of eight women politicians from a wide political spectrum. The ... -
“I am not defined by this box”: An Analysis of Cisgender-Transgender Couples Navigating Identity in the Netherlands
(2021)The present thesis has investigated the relational constitution of gender/sex/sexuality within Dutch cisgender-transgender relationships. This has been done through a discussion of cisgender-transgender relationships and ... -
“I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.”: Exploring Megan Rapinoe’s Anthem Protest as a Negotiation of the Athlete’s Reproduction of the Nation
(2022)In 2016, United States’ women’s national soccer team (USWNT) athlete Megan Rapinoe made headlines when she kneeled during the national anthem. Doing so, Rapinoe followed the example of fellow athlete Colin Kaepernick, who ... -
“I Was Her Legs and Her Arms” Micro politics of care and re/organisation of social reproduction in the case of migrant eldercare work
(2019)What is symptomatic of the current (neoliberal) organisation of social reproduction is its return to the household, relying on its traditional character while simultaneously being commodified (Bakker, 2007). One such ... -
Multisensority as Medium: An Analysis of Curatorial Practice
(2019)During the 1990s, two developments transformed the world of museum curation. First, “installation” art became a regular feature of museum exhibitions. Second, curation, in the sense of “installing” artworks, gained in ... -
Narratives of integration and work in Norway: Rethinking integration, transnational belongings and affective labour
(2020)There are legitimate concerns about the barriers against immigrant women’s integration and their relatively low participation in the Norwegian labour market. However, research from Norway has shown that in public discourses ... -
On feminist militancy, collectives, and care: an ethnography on a contemporary Italian feminist movement
(2023)In this thesis, I consider feminist militancy and organizing as a political and discursive microcosm, an opportunity to enhearten the revolutionary spirit of feminist thinking and envision new and subversive social relations. ... -
Reliving the Past, Regarding the Future: Tracing Critical Hope in Queer and Kinky Performance
(2018)This thesis analyzes critical hope, a concept derived from critical pedagogy studies, as a queer way of re-configuring temporality through working with queer and kinky performance. Firstly, I argue that queer theories of ...