Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 26, Issue 3/4, 2023

Abstract In this article, we describe to what extent culture-bound gender norms are reproduced in interactions between childcare workers and parents in daycare. This is important because more and more families want to share responsibilities for paid work and child rearing equally, but in many families this does not work out that way. Prevailing gender norms may provide an explanation for this. We used an online question Read More

Abstract This article explores the relationship between marriage and conversion from a critical gender perspective, based on a comparative ethnographic study of women’s conversion to Judaism, Islam and Christianity in the Netherlands. In the study of religion and gender, a valuable conceptual framework developed that questions the limited representation of religious women (as somehow ‘oppressed’) and recognise Read More

Abstract In contemporary debates on multiculturalism and immigration, gender (equality) remains crucial in drawing lines between the Western European self and non-Western Others. A crucial figure in these debates is the veiled Muslim woman, who is marked to be both the victim of a perceived oppressive patriarchal religion and a cultural threat to Western modernity and its freedoms (with regards to gender and sexu Read More

Abstract This article discusses the TikTok trends on deified forms of (post)femininities posted under the regularly co-occurring hashtags: #darkfemininity, #divinefemininity, and #feminineenergy. Through digital methods in tandem with feminist critical discourse analysis, this research clarifies, construes, and contextualizes these trends and developments in their historical as well as contemporary contexts. It addresses Read More

Abstract With the multiplication of queer identity categories and the lack of knowledge transfer in queer communities, ‘female masculinity as a culture’ seems to die out (Halberstam, 1998, p. 269). While comics by Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa highlight the word dyke1, it has barely been investigated academically (Jones 2012). To fill this research dearth, we adopted an interdisciplinary mixed-method approach consis Read More

Abstract This paper will look at the influence of digital media platforms and the aural storytelling medium on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ representation in independent audio fiction podcasts. It has been argued that independent fiction podcasting is a unique place for LGBTQ+ content in the current media landscape. This paper aims to investigate what affordances independent fiction podcasts have to aid this inclusion Read More