Projects
The female perspective of personality variation in a wild songbird: integrating female competition within life history University of Antwerp
The female perspective of personality variation in a wild songbird: integrating female competition within life history. University of Antwerp
Capacity building programme on domestic violence, sexual violence and female genital mutilation: A program aiming to improve the identification, the treatment/care/support for and the referral of victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and female ge Ghent University
Given the particularly high prevalence of sexual and domestic violence as well as female genital mutilation in Belgium, it is likely that every healthcare provider working within a Belgian hospital will regularly come into contact with victims of sexual and domestic violence as well as female genital mutilation. Consequently, it is imperative that each of these healthcare providers has the basic competences to better identify violence, ...
The many Voices of Female Authorship. Strategic Multilingualism in Life Writing and the Shaping of Female Authorship and Authority in the Age of Enlightenment.' KU Leuven
This project seeks, for the first time, to give fundamental insight in how multilingualism, as a rhetorical tool, informed early modern women’s processes of authorial identity formation.
As an early modern woman, taking ownership over a text was far from self-evident. In fact, women writers had to carefully craft and renegotiate their authorial identities in their writing. Their life writing in particular was essential to both their ...
Representation of female activists. The female body and resistance in the MENA region University of Antwerp
Female Genital Cutting in a Comparative Perspective. An Examination of changes in prevalence, type and degree of medicalization of the practice in multiple African countries. University of Antwerp
A research to the 'ambiguous identities' of female religious groups in ninth- to eleventh-century Saxony KU Leuven
When researching the observance and institutional identity of communities of women religious in the ninth to the eleventh century, historians took the Aachen council of 816 as an objective yardstick to evaluate female religious life. This council classified female religious life into two distinct groups, according to the Rule of Benedict and the canonical Institutio sanctimonialium. Despite the regulations of the Aachen council, the ...
National angels, homefront warriors and wounded doves of peace. The rhetorical construction of female identity in women’s literary writings of the Great War in Italy (1914-1919) Ghent University
When you think about war literature, the first things that cross your mind are the testimonies of soldiers who fought in the trenches. Yet, it might surprise you that WWI also marked a prolific period for female writing. Indeed, there are archives full of texts, impatiently waiting to be explored but overlooked by literary scholars. This is remarkable, since Italy developed a unique debate in 1914, when the country was not yet at war, ...
The role of detained female adolescents’ quality of life in explaining offending outcomes in emerging adulthood Ghent University
It is not well understood why some detained female adolescents refrain from offending whereas others do not. The majority of prospective studies with these females adopt a risk management (instead of a strength-based empowering) perspective, thereby risking to overlook crucial keys to support females’ rehabilitation. The present study takes an important next step towards a strength-based empowering perspective on detained female adolescents ...