Full professor
Faculty of Cultural Studies
Open University, the Netherlands
Co-founder of WoMaHN
About
Marjolein is full professor Culture, Health and Gender at the Open University in The Netherlands. In her research, she studies how women experience their bodies, health, and illness, and how women’s health acquires cultural and social meaning. Her research is rooted in philosophy and qualitative sociology and combines theoretical and ethical reflection with qualitative empirical research. In the past, she conducted research to menopause, chronic fatigue, breast cancer and infertility. Her current research focuses on female genital surgery, sexual violence, and reproductive health activism as heritage.
- 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.
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