Gendervraagstukken binnen detentie, terug van (nooit) weggeweest (Edito)
status: published
Gedetineerde vrouwen in Belgische gevangenissen: een minderheidsstatuut
status: published
Reseña de Modalidades de memoria y archivos afectivos: Cine de mujeres en Centroamérica
International audience
Dutch Divergence? : Women’s work, structural change, and household living standards in the Netherlands, 1830-1914
Women’s work has never been a linear process of extending participation. Instead, female labour force participation (FLFP) has extended and curtailed throughout time. This dissertation studies a period of contraction: the nineteenth-century Netherlands. This country makes an important case study to explore the factors influencing the trajectory of ...
Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in easter...
For more than two decades, the exploitation and trade of minerals has fuelled armed conflict and fostered a climate of insecurity that has led to the deaths of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (Katanga, Ituri, Maniema, North and South Kivu). This has been seen as a consequence of prolonged socioeconomic and poli...
‘Even fish have an ethnicity’: livelihoods and identities of men and women in war-affected coastal Trincomalee, Sri Lank...
Located within the nexus between identity and livelihoods, this thesis explores how the economic activities of fisher livelihoods are shaped by socio-cultural, political and identity dynamics, and how fisher livelihoods, in turn, shape and reproduce these dynamics in post-war Sri Lanka’s coastal district of Trincomalee. The analysis focuses on the ...
Microcredit to women and its contribution to production and household food security
The contents of this dissertation are based on a quantitative and qualitative survey that was conducted to assess the contribution of microcredit access of women to production and household food security status, and the factors associated with enterprise performance and food security outcomes. In order to do so four main issues were addressed: (a) ...
Women’s participation in tourism in Zanzibar : an enactment perspective
To shed more light on the position of women in tourism, in this thesis I examined the ways women in Zanzibar have incorporated working in tourism in their daily lives by comparing those who work in tourism as entrepreneurs with employees, working in hotels and restaurants. Conceptually my thesis is framed within Weick’s theory of enactment, with sp...
Le mouvement des femmes au Sud-Kivu, République démocratique du Congo : Une analyse de la société civile
The report is the result of a research among women's organisations in the civil society of South-Kivu.
Behind the veil of agricultural modernization : gendered dynamics of rural change in the Saïss, Morocco
The Moroccan countryside is marked by rapidly changing rural realities. The Moroccan government frames and promotes these changes as linear development towards modernity and progress for all thereby only focusing on the experiences of some audacious men – ‘entrepreneurs’ and ‘modernizing farmers’. The aim of the study is to unveil Morocco’s agricul...
