Margit Van der Steen

Margit Van der Steen
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen | KNAW

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Historian, managing director national Research School Political HIstory and guest researcher at KNAW Huygens ING

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Introduction
Margit Van der Steen is managing director of the national Research School Political History at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History (Huygens ING-KNAW), Royal Academy of Sciences and guest researcher at Huygens Institute. Her research is on political history (20th century), gender and biography.

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Publications (33)
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This chapter is about the specific culture of the left wing ecological Dutch political party PPR (Politieke Partijen Radikalen) which existed between 1968-1990.
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Boekenkasten vol zijn geschreven over de opkomst van politici en de manier waarop zij het spel om het behoud van de macht speelden. Hoe het afliep met die levens is echter veel minder systematisch bestudeerd. Uit Brits onderzoek bleek dat een politiek leven bijna altijd eindigde in een tranendal. Voor Nederland zijn de eerste bevindingen wat gemeng...
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Het betreft een special issue van het peer reviewed tijdschrift Historica. Tijdschrift voor gendergeschiedenis. Het themanummer handelt over nieuwe perspectieven op de geschiedenis van vrouwenbewegingen in Nederland en België in de periode 1840-1940. Ik was gastredacteur van dit themanummer.
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This powerpoint briefly describes my project on female pioneers in Dutch Politics
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This text provides a reflection on the development of gender history in the period 2010-2020. This text was presented on the occassion of the national gender history conference and was published in Historica.
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Het einde van de carrière van Verwey-Jonker roept de vraag op welke rol leeftijd speelt in de politiek en in het leven van politici. Wat betekent ouder worden voor een politicus? Juist omdat Verwey-Jonker een van de pioniers is van de ouderenemancipatie in Nederland, is het interessant om de betekenis van de biologische klok voor het einde van een...
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In this contribution, Erna Kas and Margit van der Steen, reflect on the role and development of a professional association in the national and international development of a new academic discipline, women-genderstudies.
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A new group of politicians entered the stage after the introduction of universal suffrage: female politicians. Whereas the first women in Parliament received some attention, pioneers in regional bodies or local councils have mostly been overlooked. Who were these women who stood for election in their own town or village? Were these unmarried women,...
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The author investigates the possible consequences of open access for learned societies with their own journal, such as the Dutch‐Flemish association for gender history. For learned societies, the advantage of open access is that contributions in their journals become easily accessible for researchers. But, it remains uncertain whether small associa...
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This contribution is a book review of Hans Renders and Nigel Hamilton, Het ABC van de biografie.
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Voting behaviour in The Hague 1945-2014 (uitslagen gemeenteraadsverkiezingen en verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer, uitgesplitst naar wijk, naar politieke partij en naar opkomst).
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Historica. Tijdschrift voor gendergeschiedenis 43-1(2020) 3-9. Dit artikel werpt, op basis van diepgaand bronnenonderzoek, licht op de effecten van het actief vrouwenkiesrecht op de samenstelling van gemeenteraden. Voor het eerst krijgen we een beeld van de vrouwen die in 1923 zitting namen in de gemeenteraden. Dat leidt tot een opvallende conclusi...
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Book review of Igor Cornelissen, Tussen Lenin en Lucebert. Mathilde Visser, kunstcritica (1900-1985) (Amsterdam 2019). This book is a biography on the communist and art critic Mathilde Visser (1900-1985).
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This edited collection explores the perceptions and memories of parliamentarianism across Europe, examining the complex ideal of parliament since 1800. Parliament has become the key institution in modern democracy, and the chapters present the evolution of the ideal of parliamentary representation and government, and discuss the reception and value...
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The presentation describes the added value of investigating 'the personal' in political biography for the development of political history
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The paper explores the meaning of shifts in the electoral system in the Netherlands, which granted women the possibility to be elected in Parliament, regional bodies as well as local council in 1917. For the first time, the first women in local councils were studied. Furthermore the contribution analyses the remarkable successes of female members o...
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A critical reflection on two recent publications in which two scholars discuss the position of queen Juliana of the Netherlands, especially during a period of crisis in 1956.
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Annelies van Heijst en Marjet Derks, Catharina Halkes, ‘Ik verwacht iets groots’. Levenswerk van een feministisch theologe 1920-2011 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2016, 608 pp., isbn 978 6004 264 5).
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Sytze van der Zee, Harer Majesteits loyaalste onderdaan. François van ’t Sant 1883-1966 (Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2015, 448 pp.,isbn 978 90 234 9685 4).
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This book investigates cliché's about the European Union.
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An analysis of the way the new standard book on the history of the border region Limburg (Limburg. Een geschiedenis) deals with new developments in political history.
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Abstract Margit van der Steen comments on Alison Woodward’s article “Travels, triangles and transformations”. Woodward’s reflections, she argues, would benefit from defining concepts more precisely. She also argues for a more in-depth analysis of the historical and political situation in which the triangle in the EU originated. Especially the early...
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There are substantial differences in voting behaviour in the neighborhoods of the city of The Hague in the period 1945-2010. This research investigates and explains these trends from a historical perspective.
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Drift en koers (Passion and control) is the first scientific biography on the Dutch socialist, sociologist and feminist Hilda Verwey-Jonker (1908-2004). She is best known for the introduction of the word allochtonen (foreigner/alien) in the Dutch discourse and has very been influential in improving the (legal) status of especially married women. Th...
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Analysis of the EU science policy from a gender perspective, including recommendations to include gender in (EU) science policy.

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Projects (6)
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A book on the history of the women's movements in the Netherlands.
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Research on Dutch political history in the 20th century.
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The goal is the publication of a book