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Researcher

Marjolein Van Bavel

  • Research Expertise  (University of Antwerp):Marjolein Van Bavel is an expert in histories of gender and corporality, with a specific emphasis on women who transgress social and bodily norms. Marjolein considers women’s transgressions as potential motors for emancipation or historical change. This interest has translated itself in research on (1) Mexican women who have participated in the sporting spectacles of boxing and lucha libre (wrestling) in Mexico since the 1930s, (2) in Dutch and British women who posed for the men’s magazine Playboy since the 1950s, and (3) in Dutch women bodybuilders since the 1980s. Marjolein is also an expert in the method of oral history.
  • Disciplines  (KU Leuven):Cultural history, Latin American history, Modern and contemporary history
  • Disciplines  (University of Antwerp):Cultural history, Latin American history, Modern and contemporary history, Political history
  • Research techniques  (University of Antwerp):Marjolein Van Bavel is an expert in the field of oral history and narrative studies theory and methodology. She is also specialised in the qualitative analysis of a range of other sources (such as historical magazine and newspaper publications, governmental sources, etc.), which both informs her oral history practice and is also analytically combined with the data gathered from interviews.
  • Users of research expertise  (University of Antwerp):Academics, educators, students, journalists, public engagement event organizers, etc.