Marjolein de Boer

Assistant professor

Health Humanities Research section, Department of Culture Studies, School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Co-founder of WoMaHN

About

Marjolein is an assistant professor Health/Medical Humanities at the department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University. In her research, she focusses on subjective experiences and cultural representations of gendered illnesses and medicalization situations. Herein, she combines theoretical philosophical- and ethical insights with qualitative social scientific research methods. Currently, she is doing research for her NWO-Veni project, entitled ‘Bodies in Transition. Making Sense of Menopause’. The central question in this study is how women experience and make sense of their menopausal transition. In the past, she has researched a.o. breast cancer, infertility treatment and chronic fatigue.

Boer, M.L., Halsema, A. (2024) Mimicking Myths of Menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on aging and femininity in fiction TV shows, Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Boer, M.L. de; Marieke Hendriks; Emiel J. Krahmer; Jenny Slatman, and Nadine Bol (2023, online first) ‘Un/tracking menopause. How self-tracking mediates women’s self-experiences in menopause’, Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine
Boer, M.L. de (2021), ‘Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process.’, Sociology of Health & Illness
Boer, M.L. de, Bondevik, H., Solbraekke, K.N. (2019) ‘Beyond pathology. Women’s lived experiences of melancholy and mourning in infertility treatment‘, BMJ Medical Humanities.