Frances Gouda is the expert on gender issues in postcolonial societies. She has been appointed numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship. And she is a woman with a clear view on current political discussions. As simplistic thinking seems to spread over Europe like an intellectual tsunami she doesn´t dissociate herself like many other members of the intellectual elite. She collects facts and figures, puts them in perspective and analyzes them. Then she calmly sets to explain her findings. In the discussion on whether woman should or should not be allowed to wear veils she supplies a much needed perspective.
Frances Gouda is a highly respected international expert on how the position f women is rendered by their vision of society and their sense of place in it. As she defines the place of women in post colonial history she also gives perspective and place to us. She defines the way we perceive our own culture, — right here and now. What is our position and what are our values? What exactly do we mean when we want someone to adapt to a culture he or she isn’t born into?
Frances Gouda (1950) studied history at the University of Washington in Seattle WA. She returned to the Netherlands in 1999 and is now a professor of history and gender studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She served as post-doc at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies in 1983–84 and as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in 1990–1991; she has received numerous grants and fellowships. Her scholarly work has analyzed the Dutch colonial history of Indonesia, yielding the book Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands-Indies, 1900–1942. In 2002, she published a monograph on the American role in Indonesian decolonization. Gouda is also interested in the issues of gender and ethnic difference in the history of European colonialism in Asia and Africa, and she has co-edited a collection of essays with Julia Clancy-Smith on Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (1998).
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Frances Gouda
Professor of history and gender studies
Sober thinking in turbulent times
Frances Gouda is the expert on gender issues in postcolonial societies. She has been appointed numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship. And she is a woman with a clear view on current political discussions. As simplistic thinking seems to spread over Europe like an intellectual tsunami she doesn´t dissociate herself like many other members of the intellectual elite. She collects facts and figures, puts them in perspective and analyzes them. Then she calmly sets to explain her findings. In the discussion on whether woman should or should not be allowed to wear veils she supplies a much needed perspective.
Frances Gouda is a highly respected international expert on how the position f women is rendered by their vision of society and their sense of place in it. As she defines the place of women in post colonial history she also gives perspective and place to us. She defines the way we perceive our own culture, — right here and now. What is our position and what are our values? What exactly do we mean when we want someone to adapt to a culture he or she isn’t born into?
Frances Gouda (1950) studied history at the University of Washington in Seattle WA. She returned to the Netherlands in 1999 and is now a professor of history and gender studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She served as post-doc at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies in 1983–84 and as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in 1990–1991; she has received numerous grants and fellowships. Her scholarly work has analyzed the Dutch colonial history of Indonesia, yielding the book Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands-Indies, 1900–1942. In 2002, she published a monograph on the American role in Indonesian decolonization. Gouda is also interested in the issues of gender and ethnic difference in the history of European colonialism in Asia and Africa, and she has co-edited a collection of essays with Julia Clancy-Smith on Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (1998).
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