Annemieke Van Drenth
Biographic Data
| ID | 284753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annemieke Van Drenth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annemieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Drenth |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DRENTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7965-7632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking the origins of autism: Ida Frye and the unraveling of children's inner world in the Netherlands in the late 1930s
Historiographies on the phenomenon of "autism" display Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger as the great pioneers. The recent controversy on who was first in "discovering" autism urges research into the question of how scientific discoveries relate to processes of academic reflection and social intervention. The Netherlands provide an interesting case in pioneering work in autism, since Dutch experts described autism in children already in the late 1930s…
Sensorial experiences and childhood: Nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy
Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this article are twofold. First, to answer the question of how the notion of “idiocy” developed in the context of an increasing interest in sensorial experiences in childhood, in relation to both psychopathology and “normalcy”. …
Normalising childhood: Policies and interventions concerning special children in the United States and Europe (1900–1960)
Models of charitable care: Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852–2002
Dutch special education schools for children with learning disabilities in the interwar period
In this article Copeland’s model of visualising the classification of children with learning disabilities is applied in examining the development of special education schools in the Netherlands during the interwar period. Central are three intertwined social practices: the teacher’s professionalism (in pedagogic and practical concerns), the expert’s knowledge (in theory, research and practical advice) and the pillarised social structure that is t…
The ambiguity of professing gender: Women educationists and New Education in the Netherlands (1890–1940)
In this paper the concept of gender script is applied to examine the cases of two women educationists trying to construct a professional “self” in confrontation with gender scripts that constantly recited meanings of gender, in particular of femininity. The research focus is on the period 1890–1940, when in the Netherlands, like abroad, New Education became influential, also in the developing field of Child Studies, in which women educationists w…
Contested scripts: An introduction
The treatment of gender in feminist histories of education has tended to follow a traditional empirical approach of recovering heroic women who have been overlooked. Rather than repeat again the arguments for and against theory or make arguments for the need to address gender, in what follows I take as my starting points what I see as the usefulness of thinking about
Mental Boundaries and Medico‐Pedagogical Selection: Girls and Boys in the Dutch ‘School for Idiots’, The Hague 1857–1873
In the wake of developments in France and the United States where early psychiatrists such as Pinel, Esquirol, Belhomme and Séguin advocated ‘moral treatment’ of the insane and classified ‘idiots’ and ‘imbeciles’ as incurable though educable, the Revd C. E. Van Koetsveld initiated his ‘School for Idiots’ in The Hague in 1855. Within two years, he had also opened a boarding facility that accommodated many of his pupils. Legal regulations (the Insa…
"Shoulders Squared Ready for Battle with Forces that Sought to Overwhelm". West-European and American Women Pioneers in the Educational Sciences, 1800-1910
Based on a theoretical framework in which women's historical agency is set against the background of both domesticity and professionalism, this paper compares women's pioneering roles in education in the United States and the United Kingdom with the tradition of schooling in Germany and the Netherlands. This article reveals some basic similarities between them. These pioneering roles are partly related to the concept of domesticity insofar as the…
The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands
"This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power, and, vice versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects - processes which began around 1800. The concept of caring power is based on the historian/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, but takes into account the vital role played by gender. The agents of caring power were inspired by the ideal of serving the …
Sources of Income for Lone Mother Families: Policy Changes in Britain and The Netherlands and the Experiences of Divorced Women
The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of 'absent fathers' to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch go…
Normalising childhood: Policies and interventions concerning special children in the United States and Europe (1900–1960)
Sources of Income for Lone Mother Families: Policy Changes in Britain and The Netherlands and the Experiences of Divorced Women
The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of 'absent fathers' to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch go…
Sensorial experiences and childhood: Nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy
Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this article are twofold. First, to answer the question of how the notion of “idiocy” developed in the context of an increasing interest in sensorial experiences in childhood, in relation to both psychopathology and “normalcy”. …
The ambiguity of professing gender: Women educationists and New Education in the Netherlands (1890–1940)
In this paper the concept of gender script is applied to examine the cases of two women educationists trying to construct a professional “self” in confrontation with gender scripts that constantly recited meanings of gender, in particular of femininity. The research focus is on the period 1890–1940, when in the Netherlands, like abroad, New Education became influential, also in the developing field of Child Studies, in which women educationists w…
Sources of Income for Lone Mother Families: Policy Changes in Britain and The Netherlands and the Experiences of Divorced Women
The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of 'absent fathers' to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch go…
The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands
"This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power, and, vice versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects - processes which began around 1800. The concept of caring power is based on the historian/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, but takes into account the vital role played by gender. The agents of caring power were inspired by the ideal of serving the …
"Shoulders Squared Ready for Battle with Forces that Sought to Overwhelm". West-European and American Women Pioneers in the Educational Sciences, 1800-1910
Based on a theoretical framework in which women's historical agency is set against the background of both domesticity and professionalism, this paper compares women's pioneering roles in education in the United States and the United Kingdom with the tradition of schooling in Germany and the Netherlands. This article reveals some basic similarities between them. These pioneering roles are partly related to the concept of domesticity insofar as the…
Mental Boundaries and Medico‐Pedagogical Selection: Girls and Boys in the Dutch ‘School for Idiots’, The Hague 1857–1873
In the wake of developments in France and the United States where early psychiatrists such as Pinel, Esquirol, Belhomme and Séguin advocated ‘moral treatment’ of the insane and classified ‘idiots’ and ‘imbeciles’ as incurable though educable, the Revd C. E. Van Koetsveld initiated his ‘School for Idiots’ in The Hague in 1855. Within two years, he had also opened a boarding facility that accommodated many of his pupils. Legal regulations (the Insa…
The ambiguity of professing gender: Women educationists and New Education in the Netherlands (1890–1940)
In this paper the concept of gender script is applied to examine the cases of two women educationists trying to construct a professional “self” in confrontation with gender scripts that constantly recited meanings of gender, in particular of femininity. The research focus is on the period 1890–1940, when in the Netherlands, like abroad, New Education became influential, also in the developing field of Child Studies, in which women educationists w…
Contested scripts: An introduction
The treatment of gender in feminist histories of education has tended to follow a traditional empirical approach of recovering heroic women who have been overlooked. Rather than repeat again the arguments for and against theory or make arguments for the need to address gender, in what follows I take as my starting points what I see as the usefulness of thinking about
Normalising childhood: Policies and interventions concerning special children in the United States and Europe (1900–1960)
Models of charitable care: Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852–2002
Dutch special education schools for children with learning disabilities in the interwar period
In this article Copeland’s model of visualising the classification of children with learning disabilities is applied in examining the development of special education schools in the Netherlands during the interwar period. Central are three intertwined social practices: the teacher’s professionalism (in pedagogic and practical concerns), the expert’s knowledge (in theory, research and practical advice) and the pillarised social structure that is t…
Sensorial experiences and childhood: Nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy
Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this article are twofold. First, to answer the question of how the notion of “idiocy” developed in the context of an increasing interest in sensorial experiences in childhood, in relation to both psychopathology and “normalcy”. …
Rethinking the origins of autism: Ida Frye and the unraveling of children's inner world in the Netherlands in the late 1930s
Historiographies on the phenomenon of "autism" display Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger as the great pioneers. The recent controversy on who was first in "discovering" autism urges research into the question of how scientific discoveries relate to processes of academic reflection and social intervention. The Netherlands provide an interesting case in pioneering work in autism, since Dutch experts described autism in children already in the late 1930s…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works)