Below, you can find a selection of impactful recent publications at Rhea. For a full overview, please go to our profile on the VUB Research Portal
2026
Gijbels, Jolien. / Materialities and Technologies: Childbirth Technologies as Sites of Meaning-Making. A Cultural History of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Modern Age (1860-1945). editor / Elizabeth O' Brien ; Miriam Rich. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2026. pp. 1-19
Mosuse, Marie Alice. / Boekbespreking ‘Ei, Foetus, Baby’ (Trudy Dehue) : De maakbaarheid van het ongeboren leven: hoe wetenschap en politiek de grenzen bepalen. In: Tijdschrift Sociologie. 2026.
Sliti, Jihane ; Lechkar, Iman. / On altar boys and good-hearted guys: de-Othering and the whitening of male convert “foreign fighters” in Belgian newspapers. In: Identities. 2026.
Van Bavel, Anne ; Erzeel, Silvia ; Celis, Karen. / Gender differences in politicians’ exposure to threats, intimidation and harassment: evidence from Belgium. In: Acta Politica. 2026.
Van Bavel, Hannelore. / Cosmetische gynaecologie: Een precair evenwicht tussen erkenning en medicalisering : Cosmetic gynaecology: A precarious balance between validation and medicalisation. In: Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek. 2026 ; Vol. 36, No. 1.
Van Ryckeghem, Lobke ; Wallays, Anna ; Oelbrandt, Ella et al. / Fertile ground for social support? Understanding men’s use of online infertility support groups. In: Digital health. 2026 ; pp. 1-37.
2025
Woodbridge, Elias. 2025. "‘You’re Not Like the Rest of Them’: Navigating Prison While Researching Islam.” Corrections, May, 1–11. https://doi/org/10.1080/23774657.2025.2503919.
Mullens, Francisca, and Ignace Glorieux. 2025. “Being There to Care: The Impact of a 30-Hour Work Week on Social Relationships – Evidence from a Women’s Organization in Belgium.” Journal of Family Studies, May, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2025.2502785.
Achen, Dorcus et al. (2025). Norms of masculinity: community voices on sexual and reproductive health communication in rural southwestern Uganda. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2434216
Woodbridge, Elias, Vanhouche, An-Sofie & Lechkar, Iman (2025). The racialization of radicalization and terrorism: Belgian political language on Muslims and Islam. Ethnicities, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968251329926https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968251329926
UrbanBirth Collective (2025). Improving complex health systems and lived environments for maternal and perinatal well-being in urban sub-Saharan Africa: the UrbanBirth Collective. Journal of global health, 15, 03009. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.15.03009
Fernandes, Danielle, Meeûs, Maïté, & Coene, Gily (2025). Down the “Black Hole” of Sexual Violence in the Brussels Nightlife: A Qualitative Exploration of Social Media Testimonials. Violence Against Women, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241307335
Dodeigne, Jeremy, Silvia Erzeel, and François Randour. 2025. "Putting the European Parliament's gender exceptionalism to the test: MEPs’ specialisation in masculine and feminine policy domains in parliamentary questions." European Union Politics 26 (1): 115-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165241299115.
2024
Woodbridge, Elias, An-Sofie Vanhouche, and Iman Lechkar. 2024. “Islamic Practices as Powerful Tools for Coping with Prison Life: Experiences of Men in a Belgian Prison.” Justice, Opportunities, and Rehabilitation 64 (1): 25–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509674.2024.2433283.
Van Bavel, Hannelore et al. (2024). A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation. Women’s History Review, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2434216
Van Bavel, Hannelore, and Mhairi A. Gibson. 2024. “Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation Cutting.” OSF Preprints. June 27. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wrquk.
Aledavood, Parham, and Elisabeth Bekers. 2024. “‘Life Is for the Living’: Surveillance and Gender Freedom in the Refugee Camp’s Non-Place in Sulaiman Addonia’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 60 (5): 591–603. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2418846.
Celis, Karen, and Sarah Childs. “Feminist Democratic Design and the Redress of Intersectional Representational Problematics.” Politics & Gender 20, no. 3 (2024): 734–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X24000242.
Lechkar, Iman, and Jihane Sliti. 2024. “‘No Punishment Is Enough for Monsters’: Vindictiveness as an Important Political Emotion in Dealing with Belgian (Potential) Returnee Men.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 18 (1): 199–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2416762.