gender and sports culture in Dutch Catholic schooling, 1900-40
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Gender & History
- Magazine Year
- 2009
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Derks, Marjet
- Thesaurus
- sporten, onderwijs, rooms-katholicisme, Nederland, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This article focuses on the construction of gendered identities in Dutch schools run by religious orders during the process of Catholic emancipation. It discusses the fragility of identity, the simultaneity of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, are compared during the first half of the twentieth century: the Jesuit institution for boys, Canisius College, and the Ursuline college for girls next door, Mater Dei. At both, sports played an important role in the transmission of notions of Catholicism and gender.