Projects
Clinical care and sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV in Indonesia Institute of Tropical Medicine
Methods: We investigated the pathways which place certain women at greater risk for HIV in a qualitative exploratory study with theoretical sampling using an emergent theory study design in an urban setting in Indonesia.
Results: We ...
VÃctimas y violadoras: the role and agency of women in Nicaraguanstreet gangs KU Leuven
This PhD study researches the position and role of women in and around gangs in Honduras through an ecological framework of violence. By implementing a feminist perspective to the largely male-dominated study of women, I show that the study of women in and around gangs in Honduras is innovative. Studies on women both in and around gangs are new, and so is applying an ecological framework when studying the phenomenon. I argue that women’s ...
Women Building Brazil: a history of architecture from the perspective of self-building sites.(WBB). University of Antwerp
The development, implementation and evaluation of an integrated multidisciplinary cardio-obstetrics care pathway for women with cardiovascular disease: a multicentric effectiveness study. University of Antwerp
Envisioning enabling environments for young women with perinatal infections of HIV in Africa: A participatory creative new-materialist approach. KU Leuven
Background: Targeted due to gender and age in South Africa, young women often must negotiate health and safety in their homes and communities – this is even more challenging for young women living with perinatal infections of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (YWLPHIV). Young people living with perinatal infections face a chronic disease, with treatment including adherence to lifelong ART. We set out to learn more about young ...
Labor market development and women empowerment: An engine for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa? KU Leuven
Rural labor markets in developing countries are evolving rapidly due to globalization. The demand by export-oriented industries for low-skill wage labor is increasing, leading to rising labor market participation rates of women. While most scholars recognize the important economic contributions of rural labor market development, there is no scientific consensus on the impact of wage employment on rural women’s welfare. Some argue that female ...
A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of women writers to the birth of the modern short story in Britain: 1880-1910. KU Leuven
The literary trajectories of French and Belgian Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in the 1940s: A case study. KU Leuven
The aim for this research project is to map out the literary trajectories of Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in France and Belgium in the 1940s. The project thus wants to contribute to the existing body of work on women’s writing from the WWII period by focusing on a case that has not been studied much thus far: that of Jewish women writers. Moreover, for France and Belgium, the specific context of the Occupation adds to ...
Genealogy, Genes and Generations: the Family Fiction of German and British Women Writers 1900-1945 KU Leuven
This project examines the depiction of family genealogies and generations in novels and short stories by German and British women writers from the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed an obsession with genealogical descent, the rise of the concept of generations and rapid progress in the field of genetics and heredity. Although women did not figure in patrilineal family trees and were underrepresented in the new ...