Welcome to the Scholarly
Welcome again to our scholarly newsletter in which Aletta, Institute for Women's History presents news relevant for the international research community. We welcome any comments and suggestions by email.
New Acquisitions for the Library
Aletta’s library acquires around fifty new books monthly. As usual, the academic ones represent a wide scope of branches and perspectives. Aletta wishes you good readings.
Where is academic feminism going, where is it coming from?
For such contemplations we can now provide, for example:
Call for Articles: Oral History and Gender
The Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies ('Journal for Gender Studies') wants to dedicate a special issue to the use of oral history in gender studies. Dutch and English proposals for articles are welcome (Dutch preferred).
In recent years the interest for oral history as a research method has increased dramatically. Historians, anthropologists and other researchers have used this method of research for a number of reasons. Sometimes oral history is employed to retrieve the 'hidden voices' of groups that ha...
News from the archival department
Since February of this year, Aletta received 14 (parts of) archives and collections. One of those was the archive of the Josine de Bruyn Kops Foundation (Stichting Josine de Bruyn Kops) dedicated to improving the position of female artists. As the Women’s Documentation Centre in Nijmegen sadly has to close, they also donated archives their archives from local and regional women’s organizations.
The Josine de Bruyn Kops foundation was established in 1989 by Carry van Lakerveld , Adelina Suzanna de Sitter , Liesbeth Brandt Corstius en Dirk Hendrik Couvée. They wanted to improve the position of female artists by donating money for their work, an exhibition or publication. They also initiated ...
EU DAPHNE project Neskak Gora
On the 24th and 25th of May, Aletta hosted its project partners from the Neskak Gora project, which investigates the experiences of discrimination and violence among young second generation migrant women with in Europe, to discuss the project findings and output.
Together with our project partners, Aletta will present the results of the research and the developed material, such as a best practices brochure, policy recommendations, a brochure targetting school children, a photo exhibition, and a film on the 24th and 25th of September in San Sebastian. In a...
Renovation Aletta's new location begins
A life-size image
of Aletta Jacobs hangs prominently on the 'De Vijzel' building in
the centre of Amsterdam. Why? Aletta, Institute
for Women's History, has begun renovating her future home at
Vijzelstraat 20. Following an extensive search process, Aletta has found a beautiful new location in downtown Amsterdam.
Before the 1st of October 2011, a completely new
library, archive and information centre for the history of women and the
women's rights movement will open her doors. Before the move can take
place, the Amsterdam architectural firm Rocha Tombal will renovate the
building to accommodate Al...
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