Drift en koers : de levens van Hilda Verwey-Jonker (1908-2004)

Steen, M.W.F. van der (2011)

Doctoral Thesis

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. The questions her autobiography provoke were the starting point of my research. I present the results of my investigations into her lives as a passionate socialist, Protestant, intellectual, governor, expert in the field of refugee and migrant issues, ‘grey panther’ and mother of four children in fourteen chapters and fifty images. In the epilogue I present answers to the questions Verwey-Jonkers memoires raise and connect them with the notion that women are not supposed to fight in public. I thus present a new explanation for the very slow entry of women into Dutch parliamentary politics

• Biography
• Dutch history
• Feminism
• History
• Political history
• Protestantism
• Refugees / migrants
• Socialism
• Sociology

• All authors: Steen, M.W.F. van der
• Supervisor: Velde, H. te
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
• Date: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Amsterdam: Bert Bakker
• ISBN (print): 9789035133792
• Court: LEI Universiteit Leiden
• Sponsorship: Fonds voor Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten SER/Stichting Instituut Gak Stichting Democratie en Media Stichting De Born