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Antonia Waltermann 🟥

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Legal theory & philosophy @ Maastricht University (NL). Interests: non-human agents and the social construction of (legal) reality, law & cognitive science. Also: plants, cats, food, hiking, mostly at @gardenandlibrary.bsky.social

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Julieta Rabanos @jrabanos.bsky.social · 18h
Next Wednesday, 7 October, we will host an exciting workshop on authority and normative powers, at the @ccj-udg.bsky.social - University of Girona. We have a fantastic fantastic line-up of speakers who will discuss a set of closely related topics and questions 👇
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · 27/09/2026
“[…] when I think of new fields in science that have been opened, I don't think of interdisciplinary teams combining existing skills to solve a defined problem—I think of single interdisciplinary people inventing new ways to look at the world.”
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
via Siska De Baerdemaeker: 2 #HPS #philjobs in Philosophy Dept @ Stockholm Uni: 1. #PhilSci w/ a focus on social epistemology, values & science: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 2. #HistSci or #DigitalHumanities: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: November 8, 2026.
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Researcher in Philosophy of Science
The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: brain is actually two brains in a trenchcoat
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Peteski @peteski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Calvin and Hobbes ➛ more ★ via
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 16/09/2026
Ein Thema, das mir ebenfalls sehr am Herzen liegt: Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Ich könnte es mir auch hier einfach machen und sagen: Betrifft mich nicht. Neuronale Netze sind momentan sehr gefragt, u.a. wegen der KI. Und auch medizinisch gib es für Neurowissenschaft viele gute Gründe. 🧠🧪 1/9
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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · 15/09/2026
Interested in jurisprudence, political communities, the future, and visiting Maastricht? Submit an abstract for @um-foundations.bsky.social's 2027 Annual Conference on Future Normativities: The Foundations of Law and Political Community.
Call for abstracts. A pdf of the same can be found at https://rolandpierik.nl/downloads/CfA_MCLJ_Annual_Conference_2027.pdf Call for abstracts. A pdf of the same can be found at https://rolandpierik.nl/downloads/CfA_MCLJ_Annual_Conference_2027.pdf
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Mel Aura @melaura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Es kann dieses Mal keiner sagen, er hätte ja von nichts gewusst.
Martialische Andeutung vor Presse
Siegmund: Wir brauchen Rüstungsgüter für "Remigration"
​10.09.2026, 16:00 Uhr
​Auf der Pressekonferenz der AfD-Fraktionsspitze in Sachsen-Anhalt lässt Spitzenkandidat Ulrich Siegmund mit einer Aussage aufhorchen. Angesprochen auf eine mögliche Ansiedlung von Rüstungsindustrie im Land entgegnet er, bei einer späteren "Remigrationsoffensive" brauche man "natürlich entsprechende Hilfsmittel."
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence @um-foundations.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We kick off the new academic year with legal historian Mariken Lenaerts (Foundations of Law) and her paper 'The Collectivisation of Private and Family Life in Nazi Germany'. September 16, 16-18h. To register and to see all our upcoming events, go to lnkd.in/e3PpzT9t @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
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Kathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"We don't record audio, which would legally require all-party consent in many places. Instead we're transcribing speech and storing the information as text." Cool. 💀
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Tamar de Waal @tamardewaal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dit is ook een burgerschapsvraagstuk
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Bijna 40 procent 15-jarigen kan niet goed lezen, laaggeletterdheid dreigt
De leesvaardigheid van Nederlandse 15-jarigen is een stuk lager dan die van leeftijdsgenoten in andere EU-landen.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wrote this before the AfD’s victory. It is even more relevant now – especially since early reactions indicate that Germany’s democratic politicians are hellbent on doubling down on these mistakes. Warnings from the Struggle Against Trumpism. Some thoughts from the piece, on the day after: 🧵
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Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The program is out! Looking forward to three days of great talks on the history of philosophy of technology! All welcome in Maastricht #philtech #histtech #sts #hopos #hopot2026
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/11/2025
15-year-old bug 😐 in an industry that has the highest profit margins possible pretty much www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is official now: the new UN report finds we'll cross the 1.5 degree warming limit very soon. Now what? Two months ago we described the range of plausible climate trajectories ahead in this article (open access). In short: it's like we're stuck in quicksand, where only an active pull can free us.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wir können alle nur hoffen, dass die Politik Lehren daraus zieht. Es wird immer schlimmer werden, bis die Welt klimaneutral geworden ist. Wir können das schaffen. Es braucht Taten - Reden nützen nichts, Herr #Merz. Fakten leugnen auch nicht, #AfD. www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
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Wetter und Klima: Sommer 2026: „Historische Hitze, verbreitete Trockenheit“
Rekordtemperaturen und anhaltende Dürre haben den Sommer in Deutschland bestimmt. Dabei spielt auch der Klimawandel eine entscheidende Rolle.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Philosophy FAQ 1. How do I know others don’t see green when I see red? 2. If humans are merely physical objects then are all our actions predictable by scientists laws? 3. What are numbers? 4. What is the basis of morality? 5. If God is all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing, why is there evil?
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Marcel Fratzscher @mfratzscher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mit der @taz.de habe ich über die Auswirkungen eines möglichen AfD-Siegs in Sachsen-Anhalt, die Ursachen für deren Erfolg in strukturschwachen Regionen sowie Möglichkeiten, diesen Teufelskreis zu durchbrechen, gesprochen. taz.de/Oekonom-Frat...
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Ökonom Fratzscher warnt vor AfD-Sieg: „Viele werden sich keinen Urlaub mehr leisten können“
In Sachsen-Anhalt droht ein Wahlsieg der AfD. Deren Politik dürften vor allem deren Wäh­le­r*in­nen spüren, warnt der Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher.
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 31/08/2026
Reminder dat de strijd van politici tegen buitenlandse studenten nooit om de economie ging maar pure vreemdelingenhaat is. Met -ook hier- een kwalijke hoofdrol voor Pieter Omtzigt nos.nl/artikel/2629...
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Internationale studenten kosten geld, maar leveren uiteindelijk meer op
Studenten die na hun afstuderen in Nederland blijven wonen en werken, compenseren het geld dat de overheid tijdens hun studie aan hen uitgeeft gemiddeld ruimschoots.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Using research as an opportunity for learning-by-doing may produce seeming ‘inefficiencies,’ but that’s a feature, not a bug…the process of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important product of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but themselves“
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Teletekstbot @teletekstbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
[108] CPB:Europese student levert geld op
Pagina: 108 - Titel: CPB:Europese student levert geld op - Inhoud:  Internationale studenten leveren ons land gemiddeld meer geld op dan dat ze kosten.Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het Centraal Planbureau CPB. Vorig collegejaar kwam zo'n 17 procent van de studenten uit het buitenland,met name uit Europa.Het geld dat naar deze Europese studenten gaat,zoals zorg- en opleidingskosten,wordt gemiddeld ruim terugverdiend.Vooral studenten die na hun afstuderen hier blijven,leveren geld op.Ze vinden ook sneller een baan dan vroeger. In de politiek zijn zorgen over de druk op de woningmarkt door internationale studenten.Maar volgens het planbureau is dat effect op lange termijn beperkt.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Daan Delespaul @ddelesp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wallonia's remarkable lack of a far-right party is attracting international attention, so I was invited to summarise my thesis in @fesonline.bsky.social's IPS journal! 👉 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
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Europe’s last indomitable village
While the far right has swept across Europe, it has failed to take root in Belgium’s south. Could Wallonia be a model for the rest of the continent?
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 19/08/2026
"What would happen if the APA were to set guidelines for the maximum number of pages on which a tenure decision should be based? Suppose, for example, it were 100 pages—or even 175—of what the candidate takes to be his or her best work..." New technology gives us a reason to revisit this idea.
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Revisiting “Slow Philosophy” - Daily Nous
Over a decade ago, Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh) asked us to seriously consider an idea of Annette Baier's regarding tenure and promotion decisions. Recent technological developments speak in favor of...
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Biskup on Legal Artefacts Bartosz Biskup (European University Institute — Department of Law; Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy; Jagiellonian University in Cracow) has posted…...
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Biskup on Legal Artefacts
Bartosz Biskup (European University Institute — Department of Law; Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy; Jagiellonian University in Cracow) has posted On Legal Artefacts (Journal of Social Ontology) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this paper, I argue that conventionalised social kinds, including legal institutions like marriage, operate through collective recognition rather than functional realization (the Functionalist View).
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Frans van Heest @fransvanheest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NWO koos zelf voor Microsoft Azure als nieuw integratieplatform en draagt zelf de risico's. SURF meldt dat het collectieve contracten regelt met meerdere cloudleveranciers, ook Europese, maar niets voorschrijft. NWO wil niet zeggen of het vooraf Europese of opensource-alternatieven onderzocht.
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SURF: keuze voor Microsoft Azure lag bij NWO zelf - ScienceGuide
NWO heeft zelf besloten Microsoft Azure te gebruiken voor zijn nieuwe integratieplatform en is ook zelf verantwoordelijk voor de risico’s van die keuze. SURF regelt collectief contracten met verschill...
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
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Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that literally began as an online bookstore is now in the business of destroying old and rare books.
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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
BPSP Open has released its fourth book: The Multiverse: A Philosophical Introduction by Jeremy Butterfield! Download your copy: ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/the... BSPS Open is our open access monograph series: www.thebsps.org/bsps-open/ #ucalgarypress #bspsopen #philosophyofscience #openaccess
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · 13/08/2026
trying to write while my computer keeps freezing (or, really, overheating) is less than ideal, but the company is excellent
Cosmos, my one-eyed smokey black cat, pirate boy and little menace, curled into a tiny ball on a pillow placed for this very purpose on my desk, a bookshelf in the background
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 29/07/2026
This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Alright, I'm going to do a thread about this: Race science is objectively, scientifically incorrect, even if we set aside the obvious moral arguments against it. "Race realists" love to accuse anti-racists of relying on ethical arguments over "hard facts", so let's use only hard facts.
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Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you teach or are interested in international human rights law, check out the fully open-access textbook put together by my wonderful colleagues, with a couple of contributions from me!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If opposing remigration makes you a traitor, I’m going to trait on.
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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · 24/07/2026
First train: delayed so much that all connections are no longer possible. Alternative connection acquired. First train of the alternative connection: delayed so much that all connections are no longer possible. I have acquired yet another alternative. Wish me luck, please. #traintravel
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Miotto & Bhakuni on Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey - Centre for Law and Philosophy) & Himani Bhakuni (University of York) have posted…...
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Miotto & Bhakuni on Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action
Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey - Centre for Law and Philosophy) & Himani Bhakuni (University of York) have posted In the Shadows: Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action (Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, volume 2, issue 1, 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Open access activists and shadow libraries violate laws that restrict access to academic research.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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SaschaJanssen 🎸 @saschajanssen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Vandaag 70 jaar geleden, op 14 juni 1956, werd de ‘Wet handelingsonbekwaamheid’ afgeschaft. Getrouwde vrouwen mochten voortaan werken, een bankrekening openen, verzekeringen aangaan en zonder toestemming van de man op reis. Zo kort geleden nog.
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