Cornelia Wilhelmina (Mineke) Bosch (born 1954) is a Dutch historian born in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. She is Professor of Modern History at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

in the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

Early life

Mineke Bosch was born in

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

on July 2, 1954. She studied history at the University of Groningen and then received her PhD (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1994. It was titled ''The gender of science: women and higher education in the Netherlands 1878-1948''.

Career

Mineke Bosch's research focuses on history of science, women's and gender history, international women's movements and (auto)biography. She is the author of a biography (''An Unwavering Faith in Justice: Aletta Jacobs 1854-1929'') of

Aletta Jacobs Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (; 9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. I ...

, the first woman to attend a Dutch university officially and campaigner for

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

. According to Bosch, "I think Aletta Jacobs would fully agree with the # MeToo movement - although of course I can't speak for her." Bosch travelled to Moscow with Myriam Everard in 1994 in order to assess if any works from the

International Archives for the Women's Movement International Archives for the Women's Movement ( nl, Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IAV)) was founded in Amsterdam in 1935, as a repository to collect and preserve the cultural heritage of women and make the documents of the moveme ...

could be recovered. Between 1998 and 2007 Bosch was Associate Professor in the Centre for Gender and Diversity at the University of Maastricht. She was appointed to the centre's special chair in Gender and Science. Her inaugural lecture was entitled ''The burden of tradition: Gender and the culture of memory in science''. Bosch became Professor of Modern History at the

in 2008.

Suffrage exhibition

To mark 100 years of universal

suffrage Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally i ...

in the Netherlands, Bosch and Egge Knol have organised an exhibition called ''Battle! 100 years of women's suffrage'' (''Strijd! 100 jaar vrouwenkiesrecht'') at the Groninger Museum.

Selected publications

*Bosch, M. (2019 forthcoming) ''Strijd!: de vrouwenkiesrechtbeweging in woord en beeld, 1882-1922'' *Bosch, M. (2005) ''Een onwrikbaar geloof in rechtvaardigheid: Aletta Jacobs 1854-1929'' Balans . *Bosch, M. & Kloosterman, A. (1985) ''Lieve Dr. Jacobs. Brieven uit de Wereldbond voor Vrouwenkiesrecht, 1902-1942'' Feministische Uitgeverij Sara

References

External links

University webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosch, Mineke 20th-century Dutch historians Dutch women historians University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen 1954 births Living people People from Pretoria 21st-century Dutch historians