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.

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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