van Dijk, Nikki
(2025)
Intimate Partner Femicide: Secularism, Heterosexuality and Violence.
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
This thesis investigates the Dutch secular societal understandings of Intimate Partner
Femicide(IPF). IPF is the murder of a female by her current or former romantic partner. I
have explored Dutch secular understandings of romantic heterosexual relationships from the
18th century onwards. Within this historiography, I have conceptualised the discourse of the
Secular female desiring body. In this discourse, Western women are equal to their male
counterparts due to sexual freedom. This perception is based on a conflation between
emancipation and equality. Next, I have analysed IPF cases from AD and Telegraaf with an
interpretative content analysis. I found that the discourse of masculine sexual possessiveness
was used to explain the IPF. This discourse of masculine sexual possessiveness is based on
historical conceptions of romantic relationships. Still, it has adjusted itself to the language
used in the discourse of the Secular female desiring body, in which women are equal to their
male counterparts.
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
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| Bartelink, B.E. | | Faculteit GGW, Vergelijkende Religiewetenschap | B.E.Bartelink@rug.nl | | Knibbe, K.E. | | Faculteit GGW, Vergelijkende Religiewetenschap | K.E.Knibbe@rug.nl |
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2024-2025 |
| Date of delivery: |
03 Feb 2026 10:49 |
| Last modified: |
03 Feb 2026 10:49 |
| URI: |
https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/876 |
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