Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands

Introduction 1. The Full Story: Dutch and Flemish Women Writers between the First and Second Feminist Waves 2. The Individual Asserts Herself: Carry van Bruggen and Ina Boudier-Bakker 3. Flirting with Feminism: The Best-Selling Novels of Jo van Ammers-Kuller 4. Self-Development as Resistance: Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum 5. Love, Pain, and Epiphany: Vasalis 6. Portraying the Marginalized: Anna Blaman 7. Rethinking the Family: Hella Haasse 8. The Personal and the Political