Lizzy van Dorp's Legacy

Personal Record Keeping or Continuous Co-Production of Social Memory?

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.

Last modified:14 February 2019 07.06 a.m.