WOMAHN | Women's Marginalized Health Network

WOMAHN | Women’s Marginalized Health Network

WoMaHN is a critical humanities and social sciences research network.

In recent years, scholarly and societal attention has been directed to the historical and contemporary marginalization of women’s health in medicine and public discourses. However, knowledge on how to further understand the consequences and grounds for such marginalization is still limited.

Through the research network WOMAHN, we aim to enhance research in the critical social sciences and humanities on this topic. Amongst other things, we organize four symposia in the coming years. These symposia will engage with major concerns, such as the ways in which aspects of women’s health and embodiment that are overlooked, under- researched and silenced; and the medicalization of women’s health issues and embodiment.

In WOMAHN, we bring together scholars from (inter)disciplinary fields – from the qualitative social sciences, philosophy, cultural studies, feminist-, race- and disability- studies, feminist science and technology studies, and health- and medical humanities. As such, WOMAHN enables interuniversity and international collaborations between scholars who seek to develop their research on the marginalization of women’s health and embodiment.