TY - JOUR
T1 - Second-Wave Feminism in Dutch Universities
T2 - Revisiting the Work of Feminist Scholars and Its Consequences for Dutch Architectural History
AU - Hoekstra, Rixt
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professor of architectural history was concerned that the scope might be too small. However, when Van Kessel and Kuperus showed up a week later with a card-index box with the names of 239 female building engineers, they were allowed to continue the research. Van Moorsel, who by this time was a specialist in women’s studies, agreed to act as a second supervisor. Other members of the department criticized the thesis for being too sociological. While this research was at best tolerated within academic circles, it received a positive echo outside of academia. Van Kessel and Kuperus received a government grant from the Ministry of Culture, Office of Emancipation, to cover the expenses of the thesis (Van Kessel 2019). In 1983, a year after their graduation, the thesis resulted in an exhibition at the gallery of Amazone, a feminist foundation in Amsterdam. The exhibition was called Van Boschplan tot Bijlmer bajes [From Bosch Plan to the Bijlmer Prison] and contained information about twelve female designers who had been active in Amsterdam, and included the work of the urban planner Jakoba Mulder (1900–1988), who had designed the landscape park Amsterdamse Bos [Forest of Amsterdam] in the 1930s; the couple Joop Pot (1909–1972) and Koos Pot-Keegstra (1908–1997), who designed the Overamstel prison, also called the Bijlmer prison, in the 1970s; and Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966), the architect who worked within the architectural style of the Amsterdam School (Figure 7). The show drew the attention of the local and
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article charts the emergence and development of feminist architectural history in the Netherlands by focusing on the activities of six women whose work spans the 20th century. In doing so, it not only situ-ates their experiences in the context of second-wave feminism within Dutch academia, but it also stresses the historical and geographical specificities concerning feminism's impact in the field of architecture. I argue that interdisciplinarity and the connection between grassroots activism and scholarship were defin-ing characteristics of feminist architectural history in the Netherlands. Moreover, I show how the work of these figures has contributed to the formation of two major areas of interest in the field: gendered analyses of the private sphere and of domesticity, and the ‘herstory’ approach of writing the histories of ‘forgotten’ women into the canon of Dutch architectural history. Both these approaches remain of great relevance for architectural history in the country.
AB - This article charts the emergence and development of feminist architectural history in the Netherlands by focusing on the activities of six women whose work spans the 20th century. In doing so, it not only situ-ates their experiences in the context of second-wave feminism within Dutch academia, but it also stresses the historical and geographical specificities concerning feminism's impact in the field of architecture. I argue that interdisciplinarity and the connection between grassroots activism and scholarship were defin-ing characteristics of feminist architectural history in the Netherlands. Moreover, I show how the work of these figures has contributed to the formation of two major areas of interest in the field: gendered analyses of the private sphere and of domesticity, and the ‘herstory’ approach of writing the histories of ‘forgotten’ women into the canon of Dutch architectural history. Both these approaches remain of great relevance for architectural history in the country.
KW - UT-Gold-D
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85096380097
U2 - 10.5334/AH.374
DO - 10.5334/AH.374
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096380097
SN - 2050-5833
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Architectural Histories
JF - Architectural Histories
IS - 1
ER -