Atria, instituut voor vrouwengeschiedenis
Atria, instituut voor vrouwengeschiedenis ( German Atria, Institute for Women's History ) is a Dutch organization that advocates women's rights and emancipation and maintains an international archive and library .
history
The institute was founded in 1935 by Rosa Manus (1881–1943), Johanna Naber (1859–1941) and Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (1897–1989 ) under the name Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbewegung (“International Archives for the Women's Movement”, IAV) ) founded.
During the Second World War the archive was brought to Berlin by the security service and ended in the last days of the war in the Sudetenland. Parts came to Moscow as Soviet spoils of war. The troops of the American General George Patton brought some material back to Amsterdam. The International Year of Women 1975 gave important impulses and opened financial support for the archive.
In 1988 the name was changed to Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbewegung ("International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement", IIAV). Since August 2009 the organization has been called Aletta, instituut voor vrouwengeschiedenis ("Aletta, Institute for Women's History") and was based in Amsterdam-Oost in the former Gerhard Majella Church on Obiplein. Since September 2011, the Aivv has its headquarters in the Vijzelstraat, in the center of Amsterdam . The name "Aletta" is an honorary title to Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929), a champion for women's rights and the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate and become a doctor. Around 30 permanent employees work for the institute. Readings and meetings are organized on a regular basis for students, academics and other interested parties. In 2000 the “IIAV” received the “Joke Smit-prijs”, an award from the Dutch government for a person, group or organization that has made an important contribution to improving the social position of women.
activities
Information center
The knowledge center (for example: "knowledge center" or "information center") has a large number of documents for scientists, students and lecturers. Upon request, more information and expertise can be provided to journalists, women's organizations, program organizers and interested institutes. The information center provides a basis for scientific studies in the research area of women's movements and gender . Special topics are sexuality, history and ethnology.
Oral History Method
Since the backgrounds of Moroccan , Surinamese and Indonesian women in the Netherlands have hardly been or are hardly taken into account in the official historiography , the AIvV collects the history of migrant women with oral history articles. On the interactive website, women can tell their own life stories, including that of their mothers and grandmothers.
Library and archive
The international archive of the women's movement has existed since 1935 and contains magazines, books, photos, musical works, diaries, articles on women's emancipation and video interviews. The library holdings include 97,000 books, brochures, reports and 7,000 magazines that cannot be found in most libraries in the Netherlands. The Aletta archive has 600 different archives on people and organizations.
emancipation
The organization tries to collect as comprehensive material as possible on the history of women's emancipation. It supports individual women and organizations around the world who need information. The international "Aletta projects" are intended to encourage women to exchange information with one another and, for example, to set up networks and websites. Since there is still little information about the emancipation of migrant and refugee women living in the Netherlands, the institute supports these women.
Aletta van Nu
Aletta van Nu (roughly: "Aletta today") has been a website since August 2009 and introduces women who, like Aletta Jacobs, go their own way. For the 75th anniversary of the organization, the Aletta van Nu-prijs (“Aletta-van-Nu-Prize”) was awarded to Laamia Elyounoussi, owner of a cleaning company, and Yesim Candan, founder of the “Partij een”. The jury chose both women for their commitment to disadvantaged people and for their political activity.
collaboration
The Aletta, Institute for Women's History, works in the Netherlands, among others, with the Moroccanse Vrouwen Vereniging Nederland (“Moroccan Women’s Association Netherlands”), the Gender project and the National Institute for Dutch Slaverijverleden en erfnis (for example: “National Institute for the Dutch Past of the Sklaverei ", NiNsee), the Instituut voor publiek en politiek (IPP) and the Vereniging voor Vrouwengeschiedenis (" Association for the History of Women "), as well as at the international level with the" Project European Feminist Forum "," Woman Peacemakers Program ", "Karat Coalition" and "Roma Woman's Initiative".
Web links
- www.atria.nl/en - website for the institute ( English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Merger of the IIAV and the IISG . November 18, 2008. Dutch, accessed February 26, 2013
- ↑ Founding history ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ^ Website of "Aletta. Instituut voor Vrouwengeschiedenis ” . With numerous links about the projects. The information in this article comes from this website, unless otherwise stated. Dutch, accessed April 4, 2011
