Wim Hora Adema | |
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.jpg) Wim Hora Adema (1981) | |
| Born | (1914-07-14)14 July 1914 |
| Died | 10 December 1998(1998-12-10) (aged 84) |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist, editor, publisher |
| Known for | Opzij |
Wim Hora Adema (14 July 1914 – 10 December 1998[1]) was aDutchauthor ofchildren's literature and afeminist, notable for being the co-founder ofOpzij, founded in 1972 as aradical feminist monthly magazine. She was one of the best-known women of the Dutchsecond wave of feminism.[2]
Adema began her career as an unpaid worker for theAlgemeen Handelsblad, aliberalAmsterdam newspaper; in 1939, she was appointed editor for the national section. She worked there until 1941, when she resigned as a protest against the anti-Jewish measures taken at the paper.[1] DuringWorld War II, she was active in theDutch resistance, which brought her in contact with the group that publishedHet Parool, an illegal resistance paper.[1]
After the war ended,Het Parool hired her as editor for national news.[3] After three years, in 1948,Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, editor-in-chief ofHet Parool, asked her to start editing a page for women and children,[1] calledVoor de vrouw (maar voor haar niet alléén...) ("for the woman, but not just for her").[3] which also published reviews of children's books.[4] In that period she shared desks with authors such asGerard Reve,Henri Knap, andSimon Carmiggelt, and was one of the people in Amsterdam around whom literary life was centered.[1] Contributors of stories and verse to the "legendary" page includedHora Adema herself as well as authors and journalists such asAnnie M.G. Schmidt,Jeanne Roos, andHarriët Freezer; for almost 20 years,Fiep Westendorp illustrated the column with black and white drawings that situated the position of woman in society.[3] Adema worked forHet Parool for twenty-two years, during which time she helped nurture women authors and illustrators including Schmidt, Westendorp, Freezer,Hella Haasse, andMies Bouhuys. In 1968 she was fired by editor-in-chiefHerman Sandberg, which caused some uproar and even led to the firing of an editor atVrij Nederland.[1]
In the 1960s, Hora Adama gained attention writing feminist newspaper columns.[5] With Hedy d'Ancona,Joke Smit, Hora Adema startedMan Vrouw Maatschappij (often abbreviated as MVM, and translated as "Man Woman Society"), a radical feminist action group considered the first DutchSecond-wave feminism organization[6] and active until it was dissolved in 1988.[7]
With d'Ancona, Hora Adema founded the radical feminist monthly magazineOpzij[8] (the title translates as "move over") in 1972, together with politician and sociologistHedy d'Ancona.[9]Opzij is the only publication that has survived from the Dutch second wave of feminism and has a large and loyal readership.[9] In 1972, the magazine printed 1,700 copies per month; by 1992 this had grown to 65,000, having developed itself "from a radical feminist pamphlet to a liberal-feminist opinion magazine with a large dose of human interest."[10] In 1992, d'Ancona and Adema were awarded the Harriët Freezer ring, an award given to contributors to women's emancipation, honoring them forOpzij and other contributions.[11] In 2007, printed over 94,000 copies per month,[9] though today it is considered a more mainstream magazine, focusing more on general opinion than on activism.[9]
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