WWW Virtual Library Women's History: Switzerland

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Women's History

Archives and Libraries

AARDT Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino Library and documentation centre in Melano, Switzerland: online guides to the collections, online catalogue, and information about women's history collections in other repositories.
Archiv für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte Ostschweiz (St. Gallen). Archives and documentation centre of the women's movement in east Switzerland.
Dokumentationsstelle des Eidgenössischen Büros für die Gleichstellung von Frau und Mann EBG Library of the Swiss bureau for gender equality (Bern). Overview of the collections, online catalogue.
Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden (Chur). Archives, library, and research centre for the history of women in Graubünden.
Gosteli-Stiftung (Worblaufen). Archiv zur Geschichte der schweizerischen Frauenbewegung. Records of Swiss women's organisations of the last 100 years, Information about the collections in German, English and French.
ida - Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen (Switzerland, Luxembourg) A directory of German-language lesbian/women's libraries, archives and documentation centres.
Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv / Archive: Frauenbewegung A list and brief descriptions of the archival collections for the women's movement in the Swiss Social Archive, Zurich, the largest labour history collection in Switzerland.

Research Institutions

Basler Initiative für Gender studies in der Osteuropaforschung (BIG-O) BIG-O is an organization based in Switzerland, at the Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel, to promote women's and gender studies of Eastern Europe. The website offers information about the organization and its projects.

Associations and Societies

Schweizer Theologinnen The website of the Swiss women theologians includes a bibliography of women in the history of religion and a list of archival collections and repositories in Switzerland.

Special Topics

Vie quotidienne et Mémoire collective en Pays horloger An oral history study of the Swiss watchmaking industry by Laurence Court (1995). Of the thirteen persons interviewed, seven are women.

Reference

Gender Campus Information on gender studies and equality in Swiss universities and colleges of higher education.

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Last updated 11 February 2013