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History & memory (54)

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Feminist Memory: Books, Articles and Websites

Books

Red Chidgey, Feminist Afterlives. Assemblage Memory in Activist Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

D-M Withers, Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Margaret Henderson, Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006.

Victoria Hesford, Feeling Women's Liberation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Book chapters

Red Chidgey, "A Modest Reminder. Performing Suffragette Memory in a British Feminist Webzine” in Powerful Times: Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles, eds A. Reading and T. Katriel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Resource: 
Reading Lists
Topic: 
History & memory
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Nökért.hu (Blog)

Location

Hungary

Info:
Nökért.hu is a Hungarian feminist culture blog founded in 2009 with an emphasis on culture and women's literature (especially Gothic), stereotypes and representation of women, feminist theory and debate, herstory, Women's Liberation Movement, Gender studies, etc. It gets edited by two editors (Mihala Boglárka and Antoni Rita) - both with an university background - but publishes contributions by various authors.

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Virginia - FrauenBuchKritik (Magazine)

Location

Germany

Info:
Virginia FrauenBuchKritik was founded in 1986, gets published twice a year and reviews books (literature as well as non-fiction) by women and feminist authors, books on women's biographies, women's/gender studies and feminist theory, presents biographies of women authors and feminists etc.

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Stichwort (Newsletter, Archive)

Location

Gusshausstraße 20/1A+B
Vienna, 1040
Austria
48° 11' 49.056" N, 16° 22' 13.3068" E

Info:
printed newsletter of the Vienna based archive/library STICHWORT - Archives of the Women's and Lesbian's Movement. It gets published twice a year and presents book reviews of new and old books from the library, feminist news, events, conference reviews, feminist research and Gender studies, arts and literature, portraits, women's and lesbian's movement etc.

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Žene protiv rata (Magazine, 1994-1995) + Žene za mir (Compilations, 1993-2002 + 2012)

Location

Belgrade
Serbia
44° 49' 14.0016" N, 20° 27' 43.9992" E

Info:
Žene u crnom ("Women in Black") is a feminist antimilitarist peace organization founded 1991 and based in Belgrade to promote activities (protests, performances, campaigns) against militarism, war, sexism, nationalism, fascism etc. 4 issues (#1, #2, #3-4) of the magazine Žene protiv rata ("Women against War") were published in 1994/95; the organization has also published nine compilations of Žene za mir ("Women for Peace") between 1993-2002 presenting women's testimonies on war and women's resistance to war, primarily in the area of the former Yugoslavia as well as throughout the world. In 2012 another issue of Žene za mir was published and can get downloaded as pdf-file from their website

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Woman Plus.../Женщина Плюс… (Magazine, 1994 - 2004)

Location

Moscow
Russia
55° 45' 4.4712" N, 37° 37' 6.3192" E

Info:
Woman Plus…/Женщина Плюс… was a bilingual magazine by the Russian NGO East-West: ZiHP published between 1994 and 2004; all articles can be read on the website! Emphasis on feminist news, situation of women in Russia and worldwide, equality, women's rights, feminist theory/history, feminist activism, women's movement, violence, women and war, health/body/reproductive rights, culture, stereotypes/sexism, but the magazine also contained a ressource page "Internet for Women" with lot of links from Women's organisations, groups, etc.; East-West: ZiHP also published the web portal OWL - Open Women Line

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Ravnopravka - Moscow Feminist Group (Blog)

Location

Moscow
Russia
55° 45' 4.4712" N, 37° 37' 6.3192" E

Info:
Ravnopravka is a Russian blog (since 2010) and a website/blog (since 2011) run by the Moscow feminist group (founded in 2008) that both funtion as a discussion platform to exchange (feminist) ideas and texts; emphasis on feminism, feminist theory/ideas, feminist activism and feminist/Women's movement in Russia and Russian speaking countries, networking, women's/human rights and equality, reproductive rights, violence, LGBT and queer issues, motherhood, relationship, power, politics etc.

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Pełnym Głosem (Magazine, 1993-1997)

Location

Krakow
Poland
50° 3' 52.74" N, 19° 56' 41.928" E

Info:
Pełnym Głosem was the first Polish feminist periodical published after the transition 1989, written by writers, activists, students, researchers, poets etc.; emphasis on literary critique, feminist writing, feminist theory/philosophy, lesbian perspectives, Polish feminism, violence, sexuality etc. 5 issues were published, some of them still can get ordered from the eFKa Foundation which since 1999 also publishs the magazine Zadra

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THE BRING IN TAKE OUT LIVING ARCHIVE - VBKOE EDITION ( 7-21 October, Vienna)

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THE BRING IN TAKE OUT LIVING ARCHIVE – VBKOE Edition: Workshop and Exhibition
http://bringintakeout.wordpress.com

Workshop, October 7, 12am-5pm
Exhibition Opening, October 11, 7pm

WORKSHOP Sunday, October 7, 12am-2pm, 3-5pm*
The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) – LA Reading Room workshop on Feminist Archiving Methods
with/by Red Min(e)d

Type of project: 
Art
Event
Exhibit
Workshop
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Gender studies
History & memory
Migration & border issues
Political participation
Representation of women
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Ciudadanas del Mundo - Revista Independiente de Pensamiento Feminista (Magazine)

Location

Córdoba
Spain
37° 53' 5.0028" N, 4° 46' 44.8572" W

Info:
The Andalusian Plataforma Andaluza De Apoyo Al Lobby Europeo De Mujeres has published this magazine since 2006 with an emphasis on equality, women's rights, international/transnational/global perspectives, feminist theory and debate, politics, economics, history, reproductive rights, sexism, etc. So far 8 issues (#0-#7) have been published and all of them can get downloaded from their website! Since 1998 the platform also has been publishing the yearbook Agenda de Mujeres

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