Threads of Feminisms in the Digital Age. A tool for discovering and exploring the digital heritage of the Bologna Women’s History Archive and the Italian Women’s Library. A way to woven stories and memories between past, present and future.
Digital Heritage
Discover the digital heritage of the Women’s History Archive and the Italian Women’s Library. Search for documents and essays, browse magazines, browse by topics and easily switch between collections.
The Archive and Library dialogue with each other and build a common narrative of the long history of feminism.
From the magazines of the historical collection, to the posters of initiatives and documents of the World Women’s Forums, these testimonies contribute to restoring the richness and complexity of women’s history and political thought.
The digital heritage is designed to be explored in a simple and inclusive way:
- you can perform text searches within documents through the OCR (optical character recognition),
- navigate for topics and themes, building custom paths,
- move freely between Archive and Library, discovering unexpected connections between different materials and sources.
A consultation experience that goes beyond access, inviting active discovery and building shared knowledge.
The creation of a single access point makes consultation more immediate and accessible. It is not only a technical choice: it is a way to open the doors of this heritage to a wider audience, promoting research, training, intercultural dialogue and transdisciplinary sharing. Each selected document is a unique piece: together, they form a mosaic that restores visibility to the stories and voices of women.
A heritage that supports academic research, enriches professional paths and fosters lifelong learning, as a practice of freedom and shared knowledge.
Digital Library
Enter the Digital LibraryThe Digital Library hosts digitised versions of print documents from different eras: books, brochures, magazines and materials that have accompanied the growth of women’s knowledge and practices.
It is a space designed to give new life to precious, often rare sources, returning them to a community of scholars, researchers and all people interested in exploring the cultural and political history of women.
Digital ARCHIVE
Enter the Digital ArchiveThe Digital Archive enhances and preserves a portion of the most significant documentation for the history of the Orlando Association, the Archive’s main creator.
Through letters, documents, photographs and materials from movements, it becomes possible to read closely the story of collective and personal experiences that have marked feminisms and paths of social transformation.
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