Maaike Meijer (born 25 January 1949) is a
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literary scholar. She is a Professor emeritus of
Maastricht University
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.
Meijer was born in
Eindhoven
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in 1988 with a thesis entitled ''De lust tot reading''. She argued that women poets had been overlooked and that a less technical review of their work was required. She then worked for ten years at the same university, where she led the post graduate women's studies doctoral students. From 1997 to 1999, as endowed professor, she was the first professor of the Opzij chair at
Maastricht University
Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; nl, Universiteit Maastricht) is a public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen Dutch universities.
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. She taught ''Gender, Representation and Power''.
In 1972 Meijer was one of the founders of the lesbian feminist action group
Purple September, a spin-off from
Dolle Mina
Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) was a Dutch feminist group founded in December 1969 that campaigned for equal rights for women. It was named after an early Dutch feminist, Wilhelmina Drucker. It was a left-wing radical feminist activist group that aimed to ...
. In 1979 the ''Lesbian beautiful book'' was edited by Meijer. She was a columnist for the lesbian magazine ''Diva'' and was in the first editorial of the lesbian magazine ''Lust en Gratie'' .
In 1998 she published "The Defiant Muse" and she became a full professor of
gender studies
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at the ''Center for Gender and Diversity'' at Maastricht University. Her book "The Defiant Muse" dealt with the history of "Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present" and it included extracts of poetry as well as biographies of the poets. The book was bi-lingual including both Dutch and English translations. She is an advocate for women poets who are better but not as well known as some male poets.
Meijer was a contributor of biographies to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture published in 2006.
She worked on poetry theory and culture studies. In 2011 she published a biography of
M. Vasalis. Maijer created the Vasalis biography with the help of her descendants, but it was said to be with done with caution as Vasalis had always protected her identity and her privacy during her lifetime, but Maijer noted that she had kept documents carefully and destroyed some indicating that she had been aware that they would in time be read.
She retired in 2014, but she continued to research, write and talk. In 2018 she published a biography of the Dutch poet and illustrator
Fritzi Harmsen van Beek
Frederike Martine ten Harmsen van der Beek (June 28, 1927 – April 4, 2009), known as Fritzi Harmsen van Beek, was a Dutch writer.
The daughter of the cartoonist Harmsen van der Beek, she became an illustrator and poet, receiving significant ...
. The book followed interviews with people who knew her and it was nominated for a literature prize.
References
External links
Atria , Kennisinstituut voor Emancipatie en VrouwengeschiedenisMeijer, MaaikeArchief Maaike MeijerPaarse September, Alternatieve Vrouwenkrant Amsterdam :: oktober 1972 - april 1974
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1949 births
Living people
People from Eindhoven
Dutch literary historians
LGBT writers from the Netherlands
Lesbian writers
Feminist writers
Maastricht University faculty
Utrecht University alumni
Utrecht University faculty
LGBT studies academics
Lesbian academics