The Italian Women's Library, Bologna Italy

Santa Cristina Convent

Via del Piombo, 5
40125 Bologna

  tel. +39 051 4299 411
  fax +39 051 4299 400
  e-mail

Opening hours

Monday to Thursday

9.00 am - 6.00 pm

Friday 9.00 am - 2.00 pm

Closed on Saturday

The Italian Women's Library was born at the end of the Seventies as part of Women's Documentation, Research and Initiative Centre, thanks to a project originated by Associazione Orlando -an indipendent feminist organisation-

which wished to create an institution devoted to women's culture and political activism...

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The Digital Library:
thanks to a special financial support of the Italian Ministry of Culture a three year pilot project has started to digitalize rare books, documents and images to preserve them for posterity and make them accessible to a widest possible online user community...

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Fragen
The Italian Women’s Library and some experts in the field of Italian women’s movements are working together on the Fragen project which aims to collect the most important texts from the feminist movements of the second part of the 20th Century.
>> The Database of feminist texts is online

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2006-2007 The Italian Women's Library - photos: Antonio Cesari and Studio Pym - Hosted by Server Donne