Core European feminist texts online

FRAGEN website with access to digital database of European feminist texts launched at the 2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender in Budapest, 13-15 of January.

For the first time, core feminist texts from the second wave of feminism in Europe have been made available to researchers in an easily accessible online database. The aim of the FRAGEN project is to facilitate comparative research into the history of feminist thinking in different European countrie...

News from the archival department

Since last April, Aletta received 34 (parts of) archives and collections, among which archival material from the IFRWH and the International Contraception, Abortion and Sterilisation Campaign.

Archive IFRWH

The president of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) during 1995-2010, Krassimira Daskalova, deposited the records of that period while she was at Aletta for the IFRWH conference in August. Karen Offen also brought two boxes with older archival ...

Access to important fulltext databases

Aletta has a rich international oriented collection. Now Aletta also offers remote access to a large fulltext online database: Women and Social Movements International. Aletta will offer access to more digital collections in the future.

Access to the database

Women and Social Movements International is a landmark collection of primary materials which draws from more than 300 repositories. The collection, published by Alexanderstreet Press, consists of 150,000 pages. The fulltext online database of is now accessible from Ale...

News from our director and affiliated professor

In October 2010 Prof.dr. Saskia Wieringa and Prof.dr. Renée Römkens attended the conference on 'Domestic Violence in Asia; the ambiguitity of family as private-public domain' in Singapore.

This conference was co-organised by the Asian Research Institute (Dr Maznah Mohamad) and the Kartini Asia Network (Nursyahbani Katjasungkana). Leading activists and researchers from all over Asia attended the conference. Prof.dr. Römkens delivered a keynote speech on current European developmens on ...

Oral History Anniversary Conference 3 December 2010

On the 3rd of December 2010, Aletta organised an Oral History conference to celebrate Aletta's 75th anniversary. We were happy to welcome a large and diverse audience.

The oral history conference added an additional academic touch to Aletta's public anniversary celebration, held one day earlier. The day focussed on the developments and possibilities of oral history as a method with 3 thematic panels: creating a collection; oral history as a method of researc...

Veni and Vidi laureates

Aletta, Institute for Women's History congratulates researchers working in the fields of women, gender and feminism that were granted a Veni or Vidi research grant:

VENI:

- Dr. N.N.W. Akkerman (UL), Female Spies or ‘she-Intelligencers’: Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
– Dr. R. Spronk (UvA), Transformations in Intimacy. Sexuality and Modern Personhood Among Middle-class Nigerians from 1940 to the Present
– Dr. K. Ste...