The Foundation for Early Modern Women's History
The Stichting Vrouwengeschiedenis van de Vroegmoderne Tijd (Foundation for Early Modern Women's History) originated as an interdisciplinary study group devoted to early modern women's history in 1988. Its purposes are
- to survey research activities in early modern women's history (1500-1800)
- to stimulate research in the field and to exchange information
- to stimulate national and international contacts between students of early modern women's history
The Foundation welcomes historians, art historians, students of literature, legal historians, pedagogues, theologians, scholars and students from any discipline who are interested in the early modern history of women.
The Foundation organizes two workshops every year in which current or recently completed research is presented. A variety of topics have been discussed, including:
- Church council records as a source for women's history
- Divorce in eighteenth-century Amsterdam
- Gender and emotions in the eighteenth century
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution
- Mothers and wet nurses
- Women of a seafaring nation
- Female used-goods dealers
- Marriage and family in seventeenth-century Holland
- Images of women in seventeenth-century Dutch art
- Female poets
- Beguines
- Prostitution
- Women notables
- Women writers
- Women and art in the Netherlands
- Women and family income
- Gender and material culture
- Women and cultural societies in the 18th century
- Writer of tragedies Juliana Cornelia de Lannoy (1738-1782)
- 450 Years of Art by Women
- Sailors' and fishermen's wives
- Private documents from eighteenth-century women
- Women's periodicals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Biographies
- Female writers of tragedies in seventeenth-century England
- Images of women in the East Indies
- Women and medical science
- The cliché of the Dutch housewife
- Women and the law
- Travelling women in early modern history
- The construction of gender in botany
- Women spiritual and political leaders
- Women in European theatre
- Belle de Zuylen
- Erasmus on women
- Margaret Cavendish
- Education
- The Damesleesmuseum (the Ladies' Libray, The Hague)
- Women migrants in early modern history
- Elizabeth Stuart and Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine
- Women in the archives of the 'heart of Holland'
- "New approaches to European Women's Writing"
- Women in Constantijn Huygens's circle of acquaintances
- Sailors' Wives
Astraea: the Foundation's Newsletter
A newsletter named Astraea is published three times every year, in Dutch. Besides accounts of the Foundation's workshops, it contains information on conferences, recent publications and research activities.