Saskia Wieringa

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Saskia Eleonora Wieringa (born 1950) is a Dutch sociologist. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally at the University of Amsterdam. From 2005 to 2012 she directed Aletta, Institute for Women’s History in Amsterdam (now the Atria Institute on gender equality and women’s history).

Her research covers gender relations, sexuality policy, and lesbian relationships, with a focus on Indonesia, Japan, and South Africa. She teaches and conducts work in human rights, sexuality, culture, feminist knowledge, ethnographic methods, and how to develop indicators for policy. She has taught at universities in the Netherlands and abroad and helped establish Women’s Studies programs in different countries.

Wieringa chairs the Gender and Women’s Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally program at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on sexual politics in Indonesia, women’s empowerment, and women’s same-sex relationships around the world. She has been working on a book about heteronormativity in Asia.

Publications (selected)
- Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia (2015)
- Sexual Politics in Indonesia (2002)
- Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives (2005, with Ruth Morgan)
- Engendering Human Security (2007)
- Het Krokodillengat (2007)
- Traveling Heritages. New Perspectives on Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Women’s History (2008)
- Female Desires. Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (1999, with Evelyn Blackwood)
- Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (2005, with Evelyn Blackwood)

Awards
- Ruth Benedict Prize
- Her collaborations with Evelyn Blackwood on lesbian relationships have won literary prizes.