GWS Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and Special Collections – International

Australia

• Jessie Street National Women’s Library, Sydney, Australia.

Austria

• Ariadne is a database from Austria that covers articles in journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings in the humanities, especially concerning Austrian women. In German, but may be searched in English.
• FRIDA: Network of Austrian Women’s Studies Libraries and Archives

Canada

• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
• Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, includes the Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age Studies
• Women’s College Research Institute researches women and health
• Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University
• McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women’s Health, McMaster University
• The FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and community groups.
• Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, University of Toronto site includes a list of feminist theses completed there, 1972-2006.
• Centre for Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at The University of Western Ontario
• Center for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE), Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, is Canada’s largest feminist documentation center.

China

• Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Croatia

• Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb

Czech Republic

• Gender Studies Centre

Cyprus

• Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies

Egypt

• Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University of Cairo

Estonia

• Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Center

Germany

• Margherita von Brentano Center at Freie Universität Berlin
• FFBIZ (Frauenforschungs-, -bildungs- und -informationszentrum e.V.), Berlin, Germany, contains 11,000 volumes, plus archival collections. It also offers paid information brokering on women and on gender studies.
• “Gender Inn“, at University of Cologne, Germany, is a searchable database of books in women’s studies. Books are in English or German, subject terms are in German and the database may be searched in either language.

India

• Centre for Social Research (“an institution for the women of India since 1983”), New Delhi
• SPARROW: Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai (Bombay), India

Iran

• Center for Women’s Studies, University of Tehran

Ireland

• Trinity Centre for Gender Equality and Leadership, Trinity College, Dublin
• Irish women’s history research is helped by the Guide to Sources on Women’s History in the National Archives of Ireland.

Japan

• National Women’s Education Centre, Saitama

Lebanon

• Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Beirut

Netherlands

• Atria: Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, part of Atria Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History.

Norway

• Kilden: Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway, Oslo (English link)
• NIKK: Nordic Information on Gender

South Africa

• African Gender Institute, University of Capetown, South Africa

Scotland

• Glasgow Women’s Library is the only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events & learning opportunities.

South Korea

• Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans Unversity, Seoul, South Korea (site in Korean)

Spain

• La Escalera Karakola, Madrid, “has housed projects investigating the working conditions and urban experience of migrant women, debates about the transformations of the LGBT movement, lesbian marriage and the ‘pink market’, discussions about the feminist grounding for antimilitarist interventions.”

Sri Lanka

• Centre for Women’s Research, Colombo

Sweden

• Kvinnsam is a database from Sweden that covers women’s, men’s, and gender studies. (If this link does not go directly to the English version, then click on “English,” which brings you to the homepage of Libris, the Swedish national library system. From there, click on “special databases” and select Kvinnsam.)

United Kingdom

• The Gender Equality Network (GeNet), sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, included research projects in eight universities in the UK. Project finished as of 3/31/2010. Working papers and news will continue to be mounted.
• Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales, Wales
• The Women’s Library at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), England
• Feminist Archive North, University of Leeds, England
• Feminist Archive South, University of Bristol, England
• Feminist Libraries & Archives Network, London, England
• The Feminist Library, London, England
• Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, Scotland
• Centre for Gender In Politics, Queen’s University Belfast.