Overview

This volume invites teachers and students in women's studies to engage with the library not as an instrument for preserving and disseminating knowledge (including feminist knowledge), but as a subject and object of knowledge in its own right.

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Author:   Sara De Jong ,  Sanne Koevoets
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.329kg
ISBN:  

9786155225604

ISBN 10:   6155225605
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS List of illustrations List of figures INTRODUCTION Sanne Koevoets and Sara de Jong SECTION 1 – HISTORIES/LEGACIES The library as knowledge broker Sara de Jong and Saskia Wieringa Parallels in the history of women’s/gender studies and its special libraries Karin Aleksander Institutionalizing activist legacies Silvia Radicioni and Virginia Virtú SECTION 2 – PRACTICES Searching for women in the archives: collecting private archives of women Svanhildur Bogadóttir Core feminist texts in Europe online: teaching with the FRAGEN database Sara de Jong, Gé Meulmeester and Tilly Vriend Teaching gender-sensitive English as a foreign language through databases: local practices and beyond Véronique Perry (Re)searching gender in a library Fabiënne Baider and Anna Zobnina Information as a tool for the empowerment of women Caroline Claeys SECTION 3 – UTOPIAS Reflections on Glasgow Women’s Library: the production of cultural memory, identity and citizenship Tanita L. Maxwell Beyond the bun lady: towards new feminist figurations of librarianship Sanne Koevoets ANNEX CONTRIBUTORS

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Sara de Jong, University of Vienna, Austria Sanne Koevoets, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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