There is a clear and significant difference between the propaganda resources which were created in the fight for women’s suffrage and those in, for example, the fight for the right on abortion during the so-called second feminist wave. This is clearly evident by comparing these brooches to a button with the text ‘Legalize abortion’! Atria has a silver applesauce […]

This poster with seventeen professions in which women were not employed, or only very rarely, was shown on the Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid (National Exhibition of Women’s Labor) which was held in The Hague in 1898. Around the year 1900, women’s labor had a low standing in all social classes. Paid work was even taboo for […]

This Hammond typewriter belonged to the historian and feminist Johanna Naber (1859-1941). Historians characterize this typewriter as ‘Nabers companion in the woman question’. It is likely that she bought this Hammond in 1904, with the money she received for her rewarded work ‘Geschiedenis van Nederland tijdens de inlijving bij Frankrijk’ (History of the Netherlands during the French occupation) […]

Anna Overduin (1877-1937) was a graduated medical doctor. She introduced the remedial therapy called Mensendieck in the Netherlands. In 1913, she married Charles Jacobs, a nephew of Aletta Jacobs. Overduin was also a so-called ‘Sor’, according to this badge. The Soroptimist movement was founded in the United States in 1921. The name Soroptimist was coined from the […]