Projects
Male feminism: the participation of men in womenU+2019s emancipation movements in Belgium, France and the Netherlands (1960-1990). Ghent University
The present study aims to investigate if Belgian, French and Dutch feminist groups of the 1960s, 70s and 80s set up coalitions with men with regard to mobilization for the legalisation of abortion and contraception, the critique of power relations and labor divisions within marriage and the prevention of violence against women. Both oral and written sources will be used (interviews, archives, feminist press and literature).
Can Islamism and feminism mix? Islamist perspectives on gender and Islamist women’s activism in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Ghent University
This research project sets out to analyze Islamist feminism in the Tunisian post-Ben Ali era. It envisages an understanding and assessment of the activism of Islamist women in Tunisia by connecting the formation of a critical theory of ‘Islamist feminism’ to an empirical study of concrete movements and practices in the field.
Transnational Perspectives on Swedish Feminism: The European Roots of the Debate on the “Woman Question” in Swedish Periodicals (1858–1908) Ghent University
According to the government website, “Sweden has the first feminist government in the world”. Compared to other European countries, the “woman question,” in Sweden, seems to have been treated in a model fashion. What happened, in the second half of the nineteenth century, to propel a geographically remote, sparsely populated and relatively poor country to this position? This question has not been answered in international scholarship, which ...
Towards Postfeminist Thinking? A Wittgensteinian Solution to a Semantic-Political Problem in Contemporary Feminist Theory. University of Antwerp
Woman must dress her self: Thinking through the design poetics of female fashion designers using feminist theory (1960-2010) Ghent University
This project explores the interplay between second, third, and fourth-wave feminist theory and five female fashion designers working actively between 1960 to 2010. We focus on theorists and designers born in the 1930s and 1940s in order to examine the historical connections, interactions, development, and evolution of these two groups. Through the application of feminist theories to female fashion designers and their designs, we aim to show ...
Sketch That Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Feminist Activism Against Gender-Based-Violence KU Leuven
With the new millennium, gender-based violence (GBV) has entered Italian mainstream discourse. Notwithstanding the visibility achieved, activists have denounced the simplification of feminist stances against GBV promoted by mainstream media. These have been accused of re-objectifying the victims, justifying perpetrators and confirming stereotypes. As a result of a growing awareness of the risks connected to the popularisation of the GBV ...
Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding in Kosovo Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Promotor: Vjosa Musliu
Challenging White Feminist Histories: (Anti-)Racism in the Historical Culture on post 1970-women’s movements in Dutch-speaking Belgium Ghent University
The historiography on post-1970 women’s movements in Dutch-speaking Belgium lacks a focus on (anti-)racism. This research broadens this perspective by using the framework of intersectionality and transnational feminism as a critical inquiry, while simultaneously respecting the genealogy of both frameworks which were inherently connected to aspirations of social justice. This is translated to three interrelated research objectives that are ...
Betraying patriarchy? Men and masculinities in 19th- and early 20th-century European feminisms. Transnational networks and individual trajectories of men committed to the womenU+2019s cause. Ghent University
This project aims to integrate feminist history and masculinity studies in an intellectual and social history of the involvement of men in the feminist movement. The correlation between the personal and the political is placed at the heart of the gender analysis of male feminist identities, through the study of individual (intellectual) trajectories and transnational networks of a sample of European feminist men.