Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Current Issue

Abstract Research has shown that the LGBTQ+ community – which encompasses sexual and gender minority individuals (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer identities) – experiences health disparities and barriers in accessing healthcare. The current work examined the two sides of the coin of healthcare discrimination: on one hand, the consequences of healthcare discrimination events in LGBTQ+ patients (S Read More

Abstract This article explores women’s religious exit in the Netherlands. It draws on life story interviews with women who disengaged from orthodox Calvinist churches and Apostolic communities. Women’s religious exit is assessed in terms of experiences of liminality, with a focus on negotiations of notions of self, others and belonging. In conversation with the empirical data, liminality is conceptualised as a gendered two-fold traje Read More