In 2012 the Dutch Network of Women Professors created the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund, a travel grant (max. 1500 euro) for female postdocs - up to three years after their PhD and from all disciplines, working in the Netherlands - who wish to travel abroad as part of their research projects. This year women scientists […]

Between emergence, institutionalization and reassessment, gender and sexuality studies have continued to mutate, transform and question the humanities and social sciences in the last decades. These developments have provoked reactions, criticism and resistance both inside and outside the academic arena. Gender studies, as much as gender itself, is on the move. For its twentieth anniversary, […]

After several decades of research, the history of sexuality has proved to be a good lens through which to observe the social and cultural implications of the processes of urbanisation that swept through Europe and the rest of the world between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Researchers have highlighted the role of large cities in […]