Digital German women's archive

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The Digital German Women's Archive ( DDF ) is the specialist portal and the amalgamation of all women's and lesbian archives that have been created in Germany since the women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The prehistory was told in 2017 under the motto "Ad Fontes!" In an article in the Consensus magazine of the German Association of Women Academics .

Background and goals

The independent founding of various individual new women's and lesbian archives in the 1970s, parallel to the upswing of the women's movement since the 1960s, were preparation for the digital German women's archive. They show that “a new generation of women historians has devoted itself to the presence and absence of women as a historically acting subject […]”. Digitization makes the information from these archives bundled and usable on the Internet.

The specialist portal provides "for the first time bundled digital copies , inventory data and further information on the history of the women's movement " with the aim of "reproducing the viewpoints of the women's movements as completely as possible". "The sponsor of the DDF is the umbrella association of German-speaking lesbian / women's archives , libraries and documentation centers i.da , which was founded in 1993". It links institutions from Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Luxembourg and Italy and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth .

Gender equality

As a comprehensive knowledge portal, the DDF is the "basis for research, education and information work" and "for the first time guarantees gender-equitable transmission".

literature

  • DAB (Ed.): Consensus. Information from the German Association of Women Academics eV Berlin 2017. Focus among others: Feminism controversial .
  • Jessica Bock: "Ad Fontes" - The Digital German Women's Archive , in: Konsens Berlin 2017, p. 24/25.

Web links

See also

List of women's networks in Germany

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jessica Bock: Article in the journal Konsens 2017, pp. 24/25.
  2. ↑ It will be presented to the public in September 2018 and will go online.
  3. ↑ See essay by Jessica Bock.
  4. ↑ See text in https://digitales-deutsches-frauenarchiv.de/start