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Title: 'Voorwaarts, en niet vergeten'
Subtitle: De kleine genderstappen vooruit
Author(s): VAN OOSTRUM, Wilhelmina R.D.
Journal: Spiegel der Letteren
Volume: 46    Issue: 3-4   Date: 2004   
Pages: 355-365
DOI: 10.2143/SDL.46.3.2004783

Abstract :
This contribution offers a review of the development of gender studies since 1973 in the field of eighteenth-century Dutch literature, and calls for a further development of the use of (male and female) gender as a category in the analysis of historical texts. A general problem, however, continues to be the special position of women writers within the larger literary field, and their preference (often out of sheer necessity) for certain genres.

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