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Digital Feminist Archives

Digital Feminist Archives

This archive offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies as an academic discipline, and feminist struggles taking place at colleges and universities, in healthcare and social service centers, in political organizations and neighborhood meetings across the country.

From the Collection

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1968 and Its Afterlives

May 3, 2018

1968 and Its Afterlives is a curatorial collaboration between staff and research assistants at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Barnard Library…
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Gender and Sexuality in Higher Education

April 20, 2010

With an emphasis on women's higher education, this exhibit highlights issues including sexual harassment, coming out, and the development of women's studies, the following…
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Lesbian Activism from 1970s to the Present

April 20, 2009

This exhibit, drawing from BCRW's extensive collection of LGBT-related materials, showcases just a few documents from a long history of struggle and social change.…
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Women in the Workforce

November 20, 2008

From the social issues concerning sexual harassment to the policy reforms surrounding the wage gap, this exhibit showcases a variety of materials from the…
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Women and Militarism

April 20, 2008

This exhibit provides a glimpse into over 20 years of anti-war activism from 1972-1995, highlighting the ways that movements directed by women—which don't necessarily…
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Women and Religion

November 20, 2007

The documents included here—organizational newsletters, pamphlets, informational studies, journals, and resolutions—reveal diverse approaches to women's involvement in various denominations of Christianity and Judaism, as…
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Women and Sexual Health

November 20, 2006

The following documents, which date from 1970-1999, demonstrate how women's organizations have worked to distribute much-needed information about women's sexual health. Addressing such issues…
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Women’s Prison Activism

April 20, 2006

The documents shown here, reflecting almost 30 years of advocating for incarcerated women, are the work of the organizations and individuals who organized against…
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