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Maaike Hommes is a researcher and writer, with a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the GCSC in Giessen. She currently teaches Gender Studies at Leiden University and is based in Amsterdam. She has a broad interest in relationality and critical embodiment.
Her dissertation traced different routes along which understanding of unexplained illness travels. Via a close reading of cultural objects such as film, medical texts and illness memes the dissertation focuses on the materializing effects of power in relation to medical discourse and how this is mediated in cultural form.
Research/teaching interests include Crip/Queer Theory, Disability Justice, Accessible Pedagogy, Reproductive Justice, Obstetric Violence, Materialist Feminism and gender studies in general.
Popular (non-academic) writing in Dutch has appeared in De Nederlandse Boekengids and De Groene Amsterdammer.
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