Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 19, Issue 2, 2016

Abstract In this special issue, we evaluate the integration of gender in academic education in the Netherlands, focusing mostly on disciplinary study programmes. We show that while gender has become a permanent feature of Dutch academic teaching, there are substantial differences between disciplines and universities. We observe that the integration of gender in compulsory core curricula is weak. If gender is discussed at all i Read More

Abstract Over the past decades, gender and politics has become a vibrant and recognised international research field. Scholars have shown that gender is central to politics. Gendered equalities and inequalities are shaped and reproduced in political processes and institutions. In this article, we examine to what extent gender perspectives and insights are currently integrated in Dutch political science education. Based on a sy Read More

Abstract In this educational memo, we will explore in which measure and form gender and sexuality studies is a part of the Dutch sociology curriculum, and in particular the present situation at the University of Amsterdam and Radboud University. Both universities have a rich history in gender studies, but represent different perspectives within sociology. Looking at both curricula, a general image emerges of social-cultu Read More

Abstract1 The article contains three paragraphs. The first section is a historical retrospective. After reminding the audience to the content of the discipline and its specific methods, we describe how the efforts to include women’s worlds as a subject of study became slowly accepted at the various universities and how, thereafter, due to theoretical developments, ‘women studies’ turned into gender studies. In a next paragra Read More

Abstract In this article, we evaluate the integration of gender as a category of historical analysis within the curriculum of history programmes at seven Dutch universities. We do so as ‘integration’ was the term used by most of our informants to characterise the inclusion of gender in the curriculum. We understand integration to mean attention for gender in all courses or wherever appropriate, which – we suggest – does Read More

Abstract Addressing biological sex and sociocultural gender differences in health and illness is essential to deliver high quality of care to both men and women. Sex and gender issues should therefore be structurally integrated in medical education. An often-used strategy to implement these issues is gender mainstreaming, which aims to reduce gender bias and change existing practices by involving regular actors in educatio Read More

Abstract Gender Studies have reached their institutionalised status at universities in the Netherlands by working along the tracks of integration and autonomy. The first track consisted of integrating gender into existing monodisciplinary science and scholarship in order to gender sensitise them. The second track entailed setting up a discipline of one’s own. Women’s Studies, now Gender Studies, built feminist academic infrastruct Read More