This volume invites teachers and students in gender and women’s studies to engage with the library not as an instrument for knowledge, but as a subject and object of knowledge in its own right. The authors and editors had three specific aims. Firstly, to highlight how Gender Studies and the institutions and practices that preserve and disseminate feminist knowledge are historically and systematically intertwined. Secondly, the necessity to reflect on the symbolic meaning and practical institutionalization of libraries and archives as they are undergoing profound transformations under the influence of new (technological) developments; finally, to engage with the question of how these transformations give way to new ways of producing, preserving and disseminating feminist knowledge through practices situated between the force fields of cultural and academic institutions, material and virtual culture, and the collective imaginary.
This book is a part of the series Teaching with Gender, European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms, jointly published with ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- INTRODUCTION
- SECTION 1 – HISTORIES/LEGACIES
- The library as knowledge broker
- Parallels in the history of women’s/gender studies and its special libraries
- Institutionalizing activist legacies
- SECTION 2 – PRACTICES
- Searching for women in the archives: collecting private archives of women
- Core feminist texts in Europe online: teaching with the FRAGEN database
- Teaching gender-sensitive English as a foreign language through databases: local practices and beyond
- (Re)searching gender in a library
- Information as a tool for the empowerment of women
- SECTION 3 – UTOPIAS
- Reflections on Glasgow Women’s Library: the production of cultural memory, identity and citizenship
- Beyond the bun lady: towards new feminist figurations of librarianship
- ANNEX
- CONTRIBUTORS
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