Memory, knowledge and practices of feminisms
The Documentation Center was designed by a group of women at the end of the 1970s and has been managed, since 1983, in agreement between the Orlando Association and the Municipality of Bologna. It is now one of the most important documentation centers in the European context.
Reading group
Flush – Feminist Publishing Festival
The Center includes
Women's History Archive
Learn more about the ArchiveThe Women’s History Archive collects paper, sound and visual documents produced by theoretical research and the activities of the Women’s Documentation Center of Bologna and the Orlando association. An important crossroads of contemporary feminisms, the Archive preserves the documentation of other groups and associations, events, and local, national and international networks. In addition, it combines both collective testimonies and personal archives.
Italian Women's Library
Learn more about the LibraryThe Italian Women’s Library in Bologna is “the most important library specialized in women’s culture, gender studies and feminism in Italy”.
It has a heritage of more than 40,000 volumes included in the Single Catalogue of the National Library Service, and holds 600 periodicals, of which 50 are active.
POLITICAL AND CULTURAL INITIATIVE CENTER
Learn more about the initiativeThe Center generates, transmits and implements visions, theories and political practices of women. It promotes local, national and international networks for the implementation of activities aimed at promoting gender relations and differences, the protection of women’s rights and freedoms.
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