Aletta Research plan 2010-2015

The Research Plan ‘Historicising Boundaries; Dis/organising Gender Relations’ outlines the academic profile and ambitions of Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, for the period between 2010 and 2015.

Over the past few years Aletta has steadily built its academic profile, through a series of in-house, regular research publications and the (co-)organisation of national and international academic conferences. Aletta has built up its contacts with the academic world, through amongst other things a...

New affiliated researcher Sunita Steenbakker:

My research titled ‘I am who I am’, focusses on the perceptions of sexual attractiveness, sexual behaviour and sexual self identity among women from ethnic cultural minorities in Amsterdam, who are (also) sexually attracted towards women.

The research consists of three subjects: a literature study on sexual feelings, sexual behaviour and construction of self identity among women who are attracted towards women from several cultural background in the Netherlands. A significant segment consist of a need assessment on sexual and menta...

Introduction by Aletta's director

I am writing this introduction to the second academic newsletter (register/subscribe here) in the midst of the bustle generated by the conference of the International Federation for Research on Women's History. The corridors, the library and all public spaces are filled with women academics (and a few men) passionately discussing their lines of research.

Our staff, including many volunteers, are performing miracles, ensuring a smooth logistical performance. In the meantime the regular work of an archive and research library continues. We are collaborating in a research cum advocacy project on violence against second generation migrant women; main r...

Academic Project in the Picture

Aletta is participating in NESKAKGORA-Daphne III, the Integrated Initiative for Preventing Violence, Abuse and Discrimination against Migrant Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Europe.

NESKAKGORA is a two-year multidisciplinary project co-financed by the European Commission under its DAPHNE programme, and headed by the Faculty of Law of the University of the Basque Country. NESKAKGORA-Daphne III aims to examine and assess the forms of violence, and types of discrimination to w...

European Women’s Thesaurus online in new layout

Looking for information on Amazons, Anorexia nervosa, Black feminism, Child abuse, Feminist media or Images of women? These are just a few terms from the European Women’s Thesaurus, a tool for indexing and retrieving women’s information in databases, on internet and in the collections of libraries and archives. The Thesaurus is now online on our website Aletta.nu in a new lay-out.

User information

The online Thesaurus provides users with access to the rich cross-references and multiple levels of relationships within the thesaurus. By clicking on a thesaurus term, the user can browse the thesaurus-related terms and choose the relevant ones, enabling her to search the c...

News from our special professors: Sexual Politics in Jakarta

On 16 April the Indonesian version of ‘Sexual Politics in Indonesia’ (Palgrave, 2002) was launched in Jakarta. Due to the threats the hardcore Muslim Militia, FPI (Muslim Defenders’ Front) had expressed to anything related to socialism, just prior to the presentation, the event was held in the headquarters of the National Commission on Human Rights.

Invitations were only sent through SMS. A planned TV show was cancelled. Yet many people attended the day. Speakers commemorated that communism is still banned in Indonesia, after Suharto grabbed power following a putsch of leftist officers on 30 September 1965. Communist young women were falsel...

Academic Symposium Aletta's Anniversary

On Friday the 3th of December 2010, Aletta will organise a one-day academic symposium in celebration of the Institute's 75th anniversary. More details will soon follow on our website.

The theme of the symposium will be 'Collecting and Creating Primary Sources on the History of Women and Gender Relations'. Confirmed speakers include: Prof. Mieke Aerts, Prof. Gloria Wekker and Prof. Saskia Wieringa....

External News: ATGENDER

After a very successful startup, ATGENDER is proudly celebrating its first anniversary in September 2010. The association was founded to create a permanent structure for the growing field of gender research, education and documentation in Europe; as we enter our sophomore year, we welcome the rapidly growing amount of members and look forward to launching our new online portal.

While currently still under development, the brand new website will offer visitors the opportunity to connect with fellow researchers, activists and organizations. As the multilingual associations and number of individuals in the field of women’s rights, gender equality and diversity continue to gr...