Black Widow (archive)
| DIWA Women's Research Center Münster e. V. | |
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| founding | 1986 |
| Duration | approx. 5000 |
| Library type | Special library |
| place | Muenster |
| ISIL | DE-Mue303 |
| operator | - Women's Research Center Münster eV, temporarily supported by the city of Münster |
| Website | http://www.muenster.org/frauenforschungsstelle |
DIWA, the Frauenforschungsstelle Münster eV, is a library and archive that is aimed exclusively at women and focuses on women and gender research and (regional) women's history . It is housed in the CUBA , the cultural and meeting place on Achtermannstrasse.
history
The research center developed out of a working group from the Volks-Uni Münster in 1985 and 1986 and has deliberately moved outside of university and communal structures, such as a city archive. At first it called itself the “Autonomous Women's Research Center Black Widow” and thus put the idea of spider-like networking in the foreground. In 2006 it named itself DIWA (“Documentation - Information - Effect - Exchange”).
The library and archive have the task of documenting previous results of women's and gender studies and making them accessible - just like literature that is difficult to obtain in Münster. The women's research center also wants to make women's history visible. Therefore, materials on women's history in Münster, z. B. the projects of the new women's movement, collected, and bequests from women acquired. This concern becomes particularly evident in the city tours on women's history, which are offered regularly. At the same time, the project should be a lifelong contact and communication point for women from the start. DIWA therefore offers intercultural and health advice as well as advice for female students.
The women's research center is one of the alternative movement archives that have arisen in connection with the new social movements . It was supported by the city of Münster from 1995 to 2008. Similar archives with a feminist background also emerged in other cities. They have come together to form the umbrella association of German-speaking women / lesbian archives, libraries and documentation centers, ida .
Duration
Media inventory
- Nonfiction and specialist books on women and gender studies
- Novels
- Around 120 journal titles in the field of women and gender studies
archive
- Newspaper clippings collection (especially articles from the local press)
- Homework, exam, master’s and diploma theses
- Leaflets, self-presentations by women's groups, brochures, conference and course programs
- Video films, documentaries and reports
- Posters from events of the women's movement
Web links
- DIWA Women's Research Center Münster e. V.
- Umbrella association of German-speaking women / lesbian archives, libraries and documentation centers, ida
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz-Werner Kersting Kersting, Franz-Werner (2008): “History and tradition from below. The 'other archives' from the historian's point of view ”. Lecture at the spring conference "Sources of the 1968 era" of Section 8 (Archives of the Universities and Scientific Institutions) in the Association of German Archivists eV (VdA) from April 2 to 3, 2008 in Münster. ( Digitized version , accessed on February 13, 2011)
- ↑ Kersting, Franz-Werner (2001): Democratization of Tradition? The Archives of Social Movements, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe, Issue 55, October 2001, 7–12, here p. 11, ( digitized version (PDF; 86 kB), viewed on February 13, 2001) as well as a unique meeting place: The Women's Research Center Münster ev, in: Infomagazin Münster solidarisch, p. 17, ( digitized version ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. , accessed on February 13, 2011)
- ↑ http://www.ida-dachverband.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '25.6 " N , 7 ° 37' 59.2" E