Man Vrouw Maatschappij (MVM, "Man Woman Society") was a Dutch feminist action group founded in October 1968 by Joke Smit and Hedy d'Ancona. The group emerged following the publication of Smit's influential feminist article, Het onbehagen bij de vrouw ("The Discontent of Women"), in November 1967.
MVM adopted a more radical approach after the establishment of Dolle Mina, another feminist group. MVM participated in various feminist actions, including the notable 1970 event Op de vrouw af!
The group was firmly anti-hierarchical, opposing patriarchy and functioning without a formal leadership structure. In 1973, MVM decided to exclude men from membership, prompting d'Ancona and others to leave the organization.
Jan Decleir is a prolific Belgian movie and stage actor born in Niel, Antwerp.
Hedwig "Hedy" d'Ancona is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and political activist.
Jakob Smits or Jacob Smits was a Dutch-Flemish painter.
Miet Smet is a Belgian politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V).
Johanna Elisabeth "Joke" Smit was a well-known Dutch feminist and politician in the 1970s.
Dora van der Groen was a Belgian actress and theatre director.
Wilhelmina Drucker was a Dutch politician and writer. One of the first Dutch feminists, she was also known under her pseudonyms Gipsy, Gitano, and E. Prezcier.
Dolle 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 improve women's rights through playful and humorous protest demonstrations.
Wim Hora Adema was a Dutch author of children's literature and a feminist, notable for being the co-founder of Opzij, founded in 1972 as a radical feminist monthly magazine. She was one of the best-known women of the Dutch second wave of feminism.
Nouchka van Brakel is a Dutch film director known for her 1982 movie Van de koele meren des doods. That movie, and A Woman Like Eve (1979), established her as an important Dutch feminist film director. Van Brakel said that her ambition is to make movies about women who want to change their lives and their societies.
Damen Naval is a Dutch shipyard, and a continuation of the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, responsible for a number of ships used by the Royal Netherlands Navy. It is owned by the Damen Group. Damen Naval is situated in Vlissingen.
Clara Gertrud Wichmann was a German–Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, feminism began as part of the first-wave feminism movement during the 19th century. Later, the struggles of second-wave feminism in the Netherlands mirrored developments in the women's rights movement in other Western countries. Women in the Netherlands still have an open discussion about how to improve remaining imbalances and injustices they face as women.
The following is a timeline of the history of feminism.
Margriet is a Dutch weekly women's magazine, which publishes articles on fashion, beauty, health, nutrition, relationships, and society. Formerly published by Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen, it is owned and published by Sanoma after the latter took over VNU's magazine division.
The shipbuilding company Rijn-Schelde-Verolme Machinefabrieken en Scheepswerven NV (RSV) was a combination of shipbuilding companies and machine factories founded in 1971. In 1983 the company went broke with a staggering loss of public money. It led to the Parliamentary inquiry about RSV.
Wilhelmina Carolina Benjamina "Carry" Pothuis-Smit was a politician and feminist in the Netherlands. She was the first woman elected to the Senate of the Netherlands on 23 March 1920.
Palingsound is the unique musical sound attributed to a subgenre of Dutch pop music called palingpop. 'Palingsound' is also frequently used as a synonym for the genre palingpop as a whole. The term references the origin of many of the artists making music this way, the (eel) fisherman's town of Volendam. Palingsound refers to a smooth melodic and sometimes sentimental sound, with close vocal harmonies, combined with matching arrangements and a studio mixing style.
Liede Tilanus was a Dutch politician, socialist, and feminist. She was a member of the Amsterdam City Council and was on the national board of the Association of Social Democratic Women's Clubs.
Joke Swiebel is a Dutch political scientist, and a former policy maker, politician and activist. Since the 1960s, she has been involved with the feminist and LGBT movements. She served as first chair of the Federation of Student Working Groups on Homosexuality and on the board of the COC Nederland while a student. In the former capacity, she was one of the organizers of the first LGB demonstration in the Netherlands — and probably all of Europe — which was held on 21 January 1969. It was a protest against a discriminatory provision in the Criminal Code, introduced in 1911, that set a significantly higher age of consent for homosexual than for heterosexual contact.After earning her master's degree in 1972 from the University of Amsterdam, she led the political science library at that institution until 1977. She was involved in the creation of the women's studies program at the university and worked to coordinate between activist groups to ensure that neither gender or sexual orientation were the basis for discriminatory policies.