Gender Prize

This year’s Gender Prize was awarded to Titia Ladewig for her bachelor’s dissertation “Contemporary women’s anti-feminist movements in the US”. In her bachelor's dissertation, the award winner addresses the question of how anti-feminism should be positioned within the framework of current debates on gender identities.

In its statement, the Gender Equality Committee explains: "The research question itself is extremely ambitious for a bachelor's dissertation. It does not just address an event, a development or an observation, but argues in a problem-oriented way. This analytic framework is accordingly broad. Questions of intersectionality, social media movements, closed spaces and reproductive rights are classified historically, legally and politically. The dissertation repeatedly draws on current examples to illustrate the argumentation. It is accordingly interdisciplinary and does more than justice to the research topic. Titia Ladewig's work is convincing as a whole due to its balanced and markedly reflective argumentation, as well as the author's impressive erudition and linguistic sovereignty, which is unusual for a bachelor's dissertation. Furthermore, this piece of work highlights a problem area that still requires a lot of research. Quite the contrary, this dissertation makes it clear where future research can start in order to systematically investigate questions about the connection between gender identities, civil rights and liberties, and social movements."