Lizzy van Dorp's Legacy

Project Name:

Lizzy van Dorp's Legacy - Personal Record Keeping or Continuous Co-Production of Social Memory?

Participants:

Susanne Neugebauer ( susanne.neugebauer gmail.com )

Supervisor: Prof. Mineke Bosch

What are you currently working on? And how is a gender and diversity perspective important in your research?

Object of this PhD-research is the legacy of a white, wealthy woman who stayed unmarried and worked as entrepreneur in various professions, traveled extensively and maintained international networks: Elisabeth Carolina van Dorp (1872-1945). As a right-wing politician and activist in the women's rights movement, lawyer and economist, she sought recognition as a scientist in a domain back then occupied by men. Her appointment as professor of economics at the University of Wageningen was wrecked because ‘one is better off without such a confident, stubborn miss here’. Her legacy consists of a vast personal archive, managed by Atria, Knowledge Institute for Emancipation and Women's History, but also of other artefacts, located in various memory institutions and in homes of her family.