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Hedy d'Ancona

About

Hedy d'Ancona (born 1 October 1937 in The Hague) is a Dutch sociologist, feminist and retired Labour Party (PvdA) politician. She co-founded the feminist action group Man-Vrouw-Maatschappij and the monthly magazine Opzij, served as State Secretary for Emancipation and later as Minister of Welfare, Health and Culture (1989-1994), and sat in the European Parliament for two terms. Since leaving office she has continued as an author, public speaker and political commentator.

10
Year member of the European Parliament (two terms)
20000+
Preference votes in EP elections 2024

What's new

  • 2026-03

    D'Ancona gave a lecture titled 'Feminism Then and Now' on 8 March 2026 (International Women's Day) in Almere-Haven, in which she connected the history of the women's movement with current actions against femicide.

  • 2025-12

    D'Ancona was a guest in December 2025 in the television programme Boerderij van Dorst, presented by Raven van Dorst.

  • 2025-09

    D'Ancona was listed as a list-pusher at position 80 on the candidate list of GroenLinks-PvdA for the Second Chamber elections of October 2025.

  • 2025-01

    In January 2025, a reissue of her autobiography The Personal is Political appeared, provided with a new foreword.

  • 2024-06

    At the European Parliament elections of June 2024, d'Ancona as a list-pusher for GroenLinks-PvdA received more than 20,000 preference votes, but she declined the seat.

Tracks

Het persoonlijke is politiekAutobiography (2003, reissue 2025) about her life and the women's movement
Vrolijk vervalBestseller from 2021 about aging, on the bestseller list for weeks
Kouwe kermisBook from 2022, the downside of aging
OpzijFeminist monthly magazine that she co-founded and was editor-in-chief of

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