Francisca de Haan (1957) is Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Gender Studies. She is also affiliated with the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MA in History from Amsterdam University. Her research focuses on the international women's movement, women's biographies, women's work, and feminism and religion. Her course topics include Women's Movements Worldwide, Gender and Migration, and Orientalism and Gender.
De Haan is the author of Gender and the Politics of Office Work, the Netherlands 1860-1940 (1998); The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands (1999), with co-author Annemieke van Drenth; and Een eigen patroon. Geschiedenis van een joodse familie en haar bedrijven, ca. 1800-1964 [A Pattern of Their Own. The History of a Jewish Family and its Businesses, c1800-1964] (2002). She also co-edited several volumes, including most recently A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (2006), with co-editors Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi. See also http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/Women%27sMovementsandFeminisms.htm
De Haan is Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.

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