Teaching gender with libraries and archives : the power of information

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  • edited by Sara de Jong and Sanne Koevoets.
  • Utrecht, The Netherlands : ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation ; Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2013.
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    Information & Library Science Library

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    Z675.W57 T38 2013
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    Summary

    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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    Contents

    • Acknowledgements p. vii
    • List of illustrations p. viii
    • List of figures p. viii
    • Introduction p. 1 Sanne Koevoets and Sara de Jong
    • Section 1 Histories/Legacies
    • The library as knowledge broker p. 13 Sara de Jong and Saskia Wieringa
    • Parallels in the history of women's/gender studies and its special libraries p. 31 Karin Aleksander
    • Institutionalizing activist legacies p. 49 Silvia Radicioni and Virginia Virtú
    • Section 2 Practices
    • Searching for women in the archives: collecting private archives of women p. 65 Svanhildur Bogadóttir
    • Core feminist texts in Europe online: teaching with the FRAGEN database p. 76 Sara de Jong and Gé Meulmeester and Tilly Vriend
    • Teaching gender-sensitive English as a foreign language through databases: local practices and beyond p. 87 Veronique Perry
    • (Re)searching gender in a library p. 99 Fabiënne Baider and Anna Zobnina
    • Information as a tool for the empowerment of women p. 112 Caroline Claeys
    • Section 3 Utopias
    • Reflections on Glasgow Women's Library: the production of cultural memory, identity and citizenship p. 125 Tanita L. Maxwell
    • Beyond the bun lady: towards new feminist figurations of librarianship p. 142 Sanne Koevoets
    • Annex p. 164
    • Contributors p. 178
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    Description:
    viii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
    Series:
    Teaching with gender : European women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms
    Published:
    Utrecht, The Netherlands : ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation ; Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2013.
    Language:
    English
    Notes:
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Genre or Form:
    10.
    ISBN:
    9786155225604
    6155225605
    OCLC Number:
    846553074

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