[NEDBIB-L] Book presentation: Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives

Book presentation: Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives

Atria organizes January 29th a lively presentation about current, diverse
and original connections between the world of gender and the world of
libraries/archives.

Co-editor en contributor Sara de Jong will introduce the book. Sanne
Koevoets (University of Leiden) will present her chapter 'Beyond the bun
lady' about stereotypes of the female librarian. Finally Silvia Radicioni
and Virginia Virtu will discuss dilemmas of institutionalization through
the histories of a feminist and a gay library in Italy. The book
presentation will be of special interest for gender studies teachers and
students, information professionals, librarians and archivists, and
everybody who's interested in the topic.

Time:
Wednesday the 29th of January from 17:00 till 18:30h. There will be drinks
afterwards.

Location:
Auditorium of Atria, on the second floor of the building at Vijzelstraat
20 in Amsterdam.

You can send a e-mail to: pr@atria-kennisinstituut.nl

Teaching gender with libraries and archives
Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives: The Power of Information is
available in the Teaching with Gender book series, published by ATGENDER
and CEU press. It serves as a pedagogical tool, aimed at stimulating
academics and students to reflect critically on libraries and archives as
profoundly gendered knowledge spaces. The authors address questions such
as how to research gender in a library that only holds one copy of The
Second Sex or how a critique of library classification systems may
strengthen feminist claims to knowledge. They also explore ways in which
the histories of women's and gender studies and women's and gender
libraries are intertwined, what postmodern perspectives on knowledge may
add to library and archive practices. Finally, the authors reflect on the
absence of women's documents from official archives and on the stereotype
of the female librarian that should be challenged by re-evaluating the
political relevance of library and archival practices. Each chapter offers
suggestions for activities and discussions that can be used in or adapted
to teaching settings.

Co-editor and contributor Sara de Jong (Universities of Amsterdam and
Leiden) is affiliated researcher at Atria. Contributor Saskia Wieringa
(University of Amsterdam) is affiliated professor at Atria, and
contributors Tilly Vriend and Gé Meulmeester work at Atria. One of the
chapters discusses the role of the library as knowledge broker by drawing
on the institutional history of Atria.

Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives: The Power of Information
(eds. Sara de Jong and Sanne Koevoets), CEU Press, 2013.




Atria, kennisinstituut voor emancipatie en vrouwengeschiedenis
Vijzelstraat 20, 1017 HK Amsterdam
T: +31(0)20 30 31 500/537
www.atria-kennisinstituut.nl


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