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Gender and Women's Studies Collection

The Gender and Women's Studies Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the the exploration of politics, history, and society from a transnational and multicultural women's perspective. Although this collection is still in its infancy, future additions may include archival as well as published materials and may be drawn from a variety of formats: books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, audio and video, and more. Our first submissions to the collection include grassroots posters from two separate Indian feminist organizations. The first, Olakh (meaning Identity) and the second Sayihar. The posters have been collected from different women's groups and feminist organizations from all over India. These posters are not simply beautiful pieces of material culture created by individual artists. Most of the posters are the outcome of a collective political process in which community members, activists, students, and/or survivors brainstorm together to translate a deep social concern into words and images.

The second group of materials come from the collections of Dovie Horvitz and consists of over 1,300 images and scanned texts representing objects and printed matter that reflect the lives of women from the mid 1800s through the mid 1900s. The items themselves were collected by Mrs. Dovie Horvitz over almost two decades and remain her property.

Gender and Women's Studies Collection

The Gender and Women's Studies Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the the exploration of politics, history, and society from a transnational and multicultural women's perspective. Although this collection is still in its infancy, future additions may include archival as well as published mater…
Image Source: "Follow the religion of humanity. Sisters, resist together" from Sahiyar's Grassroots Feminist Political Posters in India Collection.

Gender and Women's Studies Collection Sample items in the collection

  • Serve Well hose
  • Protesters
  • I. Miller brown shoebox
  • Actual speech at a woman suffrage meeting, suffrage postcard
  • Another world is possible
  • Girl Power
  • Sweet Georgia Brown Sleeping Beauty Night Cream
  • Break silence to fight violence
  • Respect Facts
  • Fuck Coups
  • Gujarat State Council for Blood Transfusion 2
  • Towards a gender friendly workplace
  • Betsy Ross Klan No.1 stationery
  • Global movement
  • We Will Not Be Divided
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  • This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

    This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.

    Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes, or any other use falling within the purview of "Fair Use".

    In all other cases, please consult the terms provided with the item, or contact the Libraries.

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  • Parenthood in America
  • Sahiyar's Feminist Political Posters
  • Women's March, January 21, 2017

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