1st Edition
Sharing the Difference Feminist Debates in Holland
Introduction: Dutch treats and other strangers
Reading Dutch feminism
Rosi Braidotti
Part 1: The equality-difference debate in the Netherlands
Introduction
1. Just the same or just different?
A feminist debate
Mieke Aerts
2. Which difference makes the difference?
On the conceptualization of sexual difference
Irene Costera Meijer
3. The construction of dilemmas in feminism
Aafke Komter
Part 2: New perspectives in historical research
Introduction
4. Gualberta Alaide Beccari and the tempting perspective of the moral regeneration of humanity (1868–1906)
Marjan Schwegman
5. Productions of sexual differences in Catholic ‘Life Schools’, 1947–1968
On firm convictions and doubts
Hélène Vossen
6. The young, intelligent woman
Marianne Beelaerts
Part 3: The body
Introduction
7. ‘Let the body talk’, or can children learn to protect themselves against incest?
Saskia Grotenhuis
8. Wombs, pigmentation and pyramids
Should anti-racists and feminists try to confine ‘biology’ to its proper place?
Annemarie Mol
9… and lust for all!
The end of the sexuality debate in the women’s movement?
Evelien Tonkens and Monique Volman
Part 4: French thought and psychoanalysis
Introduction
10. Baubo or Bacchante?
Sarah Kofman and Nietzsche’s ‘affirmative’ woman
Joke J. Hermsen
11. Coming to your senses…
On the scopic order and woman’s disorder
Angela Grooten
12. The vanished woman and styles of feminine subjectivity
Feminism – deconstruction and construction
Karen Vintges
Biography
Joke J. Hermsen is a Dutch writer and philosopher, who studied art & philosophy in Paris and now lives and works in Amsterdam. She has a particular interest in time, memory and art, and has written extensively about the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch and Lou Andreas Salomé.
Alkeline van Lenning retired as Dean of the Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) bachelor’s program at Tilburg University. She has combined teaching, in the Netherlands and abroad, with management positions, the latter always being concerned with academic education.
