STICHWORT - Archive of the women's and lesbian movement

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STICHWORT - Archive of the women's and lesbian movement (short: STICHWORT ) is an archive with a library of the women's and lesbian movement founded in Vienna in 1983 . It wants to “ show and preserve the diversity of feminist ideas and struggles”. STICHWORT is run by the Association for Women's Research and Female Life Context.

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STICHWORT collects literature on women's and gender research, women's movements, lesbian research, queer studies and has documented around 750 Austrian women's groups. In the archive and the library there are leaflets, brochures, books, international magazines, posters, audio and video documents, self-portraits and minutes.

The library currently (as of November 2012) has 14,000 publications and other media, for example a video collection with around 500 films in German and English on all areas of women's studies. These include around 700 women's magazines covering the past four decades. There is also a collection of gray literature , research reports, typescripts , project concepts, university publications and much more.

Publications that appeared before 1966 were as of November 2012 housed around 700 titles in the library's antiquarian bookshop . The second-hand bookshop contains novels and short stories, memoirs, collections of letters and “classic women's literature”. The oldest book is from 1828; there are also two books from 1855 and 1864. A “unique collection” among the German-speaking women's archives are the around 120 banners that were used at events and demonstrations.

A feminist information service from STICHWORT has existed since September 1999. It is intended to meet the greater demand for global information procurement and is accessible to everyone interested in theory, practice and research: editorial offices, women's political institutions, publishers, scientists, agencies and others.

A printed magazine with the title STICHWORT Newsletter appears every six months; it contains, among other things, information about events.

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The International Gay / Lesbian Information Center and Archives (IHLIA) organized an international conference of LGBT libraries and archives in Amsterdam in August 2012 , in which STICHWORT participated.

The largest Austrian event and demonstration was organized by STICHWORT in cooperation with the bookstore ChickLit and took place in March 2011. The 100th anniversary of “demonstrative women's demands” was celebrated.

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  1. ↑ Cf. on this: Sonja Russ: Women Facts. From business to feminism. [...] p. 121: "Is understood as a political project of the women's and lesbian movement, has been collecting all kinds of documents of the women's and lesbian movement since 1983 [...]."
  2. ↑ Imprint on the STICHWORT website - archive of the women's and lesbian movement, accessed on August 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Interview. Three questions on keyword. In: Website of IG Kultur Wien , accessed on November 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Hanna Hacker : We have the perfect marriage in the 76th edition. A little insight into the antiquarian book inventory. In: STICHWORT Newsletter, 2/1996, pp. 11–12, here p. 11: “We define 'second-hand bookshop' along a time limit; what was published before 1966 is one of them - currently almost 700 titles. [...] The antiquarian stock is not actually the result of targeted collection efforts. STICHWORT bought the largest part of the bookstore Frauenzimmer after many years of loan ownership in our rooms. "
  5. ↑ Index newsletter from STICHWORT.
  6. ↑ Research platform . Relocation of women's and gender history. Retrieved November 12, 2012.