Project

Male feminism: the participation of men in women’s emancipation movements in Belgium, France and the Netherlands (1960-1990).

Acronym
Mannelijk feminisme
Code
3F025411
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Keywords
feminism gender history women's emancipation
 
Project description

The present study aims to investigate if Belgian, French and Dutch feminist groups of the 1960s, 70s and 80s set up coalitions with men with regard to mobilization for the legalisation of abortion and contraception, the critique of power relations and labor divisions within marriage and the prevention of violence against women. Both oral and written sources will be used (interviews, archives, feminist press and literature).