Archive Categories


Categories used are from the European Women's Thesaurus published by the IIAV (International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement), Amsterdam, 1998.

A more detailed catalogue may be downloaded here in pdf format.

Visual and Performing Arts
Anthropology
Built Environment
Economics/Labour
Education/Training
Health Care/Medicine
History
Lifestyles/Parenthood
Literature/Linguistics
Law
Media
Philosophy
Politics/Policy
Psychology
Recreation
Religion
Science and Technology
Social Conditions/Relations
Women's Studies as a Discipline
Fiction, including Songs, Poetry and Drama

Economics/Labour

  • affirmative action
  • career development
  • childcare
  • development aid
  • disguised unemployment
  • employment conditions
  • equal opportunities
  • glass ceiling
  • homeworking
  • jobsharing
  • parental leave
  • poverty
  • trade unions
  • unemployment
  • wages for housework
  • women in male-dominated occupations
  • women re-entrants

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 Education/Training

  • career choice
  • curriculum
  • consciousness-raising groups
  • hidden curriculum
  • sexism in schools and colleges
  • teaching materials
  • women's training centres/groups

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Health Care/Medicine

  • AIDS
  • anorexia, bulimia & self-abuse
  • birth control
  • counselling & therapy
  • food & diet
  • health campaigns (e.g. Women's Cancer Campaign)
  • mental health
  • physical 'well-being'
  • sexuality

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 History

  • individual women's collections e.g. Dora Russell Peace Caravan
  • oral histories
  • first feminist wave
  • life histories; biographies and autobiographies

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Lifestyles/Parenthood

  • childcare
  • caregiving
  • cohabitation
  • divorce
  • gender-specific upbringing
  • lesbian mothers
  • marriage
  • single mothers

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 Law

  • abortion law reform
  • equal opportunities act
  • European Union
  • human rights
  • matrimonial laws
  • police officers
  • prisons
  • sex discrimination act
  • sexual violence

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Politics/Policy

  • abortion movement
  • action groups
  • anarcha feminism
  • ecofeminism
  • Equal Opportunities Commission documents
  • European Union bulletins
  • gender mainstreaming
  • immigration
  • liberal feminism
  • liberation movement (WLM)
  • radical feminism
  • socialist feminism
  • social security
  • statutory rights (including children's rights)
  • theories of power

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 Religion

  • goddessing
  • matriarchy
  • spirituality
  • witches
  • women in religious movements
  • women priests

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Social Conditions/Relations

  • abuse
  • anti-sexism
  • developing countries
  • discrimination
  • gender socialisation
  • housewives
  • lesbianism
  • pornography & visual degradation
  • poverty
  • prostitution
  • racism
  • sexual harassment
  • sexuality
  • social security
  • stereotyping
  • violence against women - domestic abuse, rape, women's aid refuges, female genital mutilation, child sexual abuse
  • violent women

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