Croatia – Women’s Infoteka – Women’s Information & Documentation Center

Date: July 21, 2008

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CROATIA – WOMEN’S INFOTEKA

WOMEN’S INFORMATION &
DOCUMENTATION CENTER

https://www.zinfo.hr/engleski/aboutus.htm

WOMEN’S
INFOTEKA (ŽENSKA INFOTEKA) is women’s information and documentation center
founded in Zagreb in December 1992 as one of the first in Croatia and
Eastern Europe. The basic activities are:

Focus
Focus and goals are: preservation of knowledge about women’s history
and women’s movements in Croatia as well as constant work to make public aware
of it, promotion of and support to women’s groups and individual women working
to achieve global and true equality in all of the fields of human endeavor and
support to all of the attempts to make women and their achievements more
visible and valued by the society.

Databases
Databases – document the present social, political, economical and
cultural status of women in the contemporary society. They include statistical
and demographic data on women, the directories of Croatian and regional women’s
groups, the survey of foreign women’s groups and international networks. They
contain data on different aspects of women’s lives and activities (politics,
violence against women, media, law, art, religion etc.) as well as information
on international funding sources for women’s projects, national and
international information on significant events (seminars, conferences, etc. ).

The Archive – The archive as a part of data bases,
systematically collect historical documents/materials on women, women’s and
feminist groups and initiatives in Croatia as well as materials on common
history of women’s movement in the region of Former Yugoslavia. The archive
collection consists of different documents, leaflets, posters, group programs,
brochures, press-clippings, video and the photo archive.

Library
The library is presently in the possession of 3.750 books, 800 magazines and 550 members.
The majority of titles are in English, German, and Croatian and in the other
foreign languages. The books cover wide range of topics, including: women’s
writings, feminist theory, women’s history, politics, sociology, anthropology,
violence against women, lesbian studies, psychology. There is a computer
catalogue of all the books that are indexed according to different criteria: by
the author, title, and subject matter. The library and the reading-room are
open to the public twice a week, and apart from books it offers a dozen of
feminist magazines. There is also a small collection of women’s films.

Bread and Roses
“Bread
and Roses” (“Kruh i Ruže”) is a quarterly feminist magazine
published by Women’s Infoteka dedicated to the specific women’s problems. So
far there have been thematic issues on democracy and politics, feminism,
Beijing conference, women’s dancing scene in Croatia, lesbian studies,
literature and language, electronic communication, sexuality, gender equality,
women in army, women and science etc. Apart from the central topic of the
issue, the magazine regularly informs on women’s groups in Croatia, their
activities, gives the survey of different events in Croatia and abroad, and
presents the translations of relevant texts. Each published article has
extensive summary in English.

Publishing
Apart from “Bread and Roses”, Infoteka’s publishing
project publishes books of Croatian women authors as well as translations of
feminist literature. Books published (1996-2006):

Lydia Sklevicky, “Horses, Women, Wars”
Judith Lewis Herman, “Trauma and Recovery”
(translation)
Group of authors “Governments Without Women or The
Long March” (seminar documentation)
Group of authors “Women’s Ways of Knowing”
(translation)
Group of authors “Women and Politics”
(seminar documentation)
Women’s Infoteka, “Directory of Women’s Groups in
Croatia”
Group of Authors “Women and Politics: New
Militarization of Europe Impacts and Implications” (seminar
documentation)
Carole Pateman, “The Disorder of Women”
(translation)
Luce Irigaray “I, You, We – Towards a Culture of
Diversity” (translation)
Mary Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of
Woman” (translation)
Erica Fischer, “Aimée and Jaguar”
(translation)
Carole Pateman “The Sexual Contract”
(translation)
Judith Butler, “Gender Trouble” (translation)
Women’s Infoteka “Thesaurus of Women’s
Terminology”
Women’s Infoteka “Directory of Women’s Groups in
Croatia”
Group of authors “Women and Politics: Feminism
with an eastern touch”, (seminar documentation)
Ljiljana Filipović “Hawk in the Shoemaker’s
shop”
Anne Phillips “Engendering Democracy”
(translation)
Camille Paglia “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadance
from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson” (translation)
Group of authors “Women and Politics: Women in
History – History Without
Women” (seminar documentation)
Andrea Dworkin “Letters from a War Zone”
(translation)
Gloria Steinem “Revolution from Within: A Book of
Self-Esteem” (translation)
Group of authors “Women and Politics: Gender in
Political Theory” (seminar
documentation).
Teresa de Lauretis “The Practise of Love: Lesbian
Sexuality and Perverse Desire” (translation)
Joan Wallach Scott “Gender and the Politics of
History” (translation)
Đurđa Knežević “About my Mum,
Russians, Firemans and Others”
Andrea Feldman “The Call of Syracuse or Why am I
in Politics”
Adrienne Rich “On Lies, Secrets and Silence –
Selected Prose 1966-1978” (translation)
Group of authors “Women and Politics: Contemporary
Women’s/Feminist Movements in Post-Communist Countries – 10 Years
After” (seminar documentation)
Nira Yuval-Davis “Gender & Nation”
(translation)
Gordana Bosanac (ed.) “Selected Essays by Blazenka
Despot”
Wenona Giles (ed.) “Feminists Under Fire –
Exchanges Across War Zones” (translation)
Andrea Feldman (ed.) “Women in Croatia – Cultural
history”
Group of authors «Women and Politics: Sexuality between
the local and the global” (seminar documentation)
Sylvia Walby “Gender Transformations”
(translation)
“Group of authors: Women and Politics: Eastern
Europe and the Third World – Women’s Attempt to Re-establish the
Dialogue” (seminar documentation)
Daša Drndic “Feminist Handwriting or Political
Parable: Lillian Hellman”
Alice Schwarzer “Simone de Beauvoir – Rebel and
Pathfinder” (translation)
“Group of authors: Women and Politics: Ten Years
After ” (seminar documentation)

Forthcoming releases (2006-2007):

Patricia Highsmith “Carol” (translation)

Seminars
INTERNATIONAL
SEMINAR “WOMEN AND POLITICS”
Every since 1996 year Women’s Infoteka is organizing an international seminar
on Women and Politics which gathers women mostly from Eastern European, former
Soviet Union and Middle East countries to discuss various topics within the
framework of the main title of the seminar. Every year close to forty women
each year is taking part in its work. Women’s Infoteka organizes this annual
seminar in cooperation with Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, and since
1999, its partner organization has been WISE (Women International Studies
Europe). Seminar takes place in Dubrovnik.

Other activities
Women’s network – It is a long-term project that aims at
establishing the communication network of women’s groups and individuals in
Croatia as well as networking with similar networks in the region. Apart from
making fast communication and exchange of information possible, the aim is to
facilitate group work and help establish personal contacts. The technological
basis of the network is, together with classical modes of communication,
electronic mail.
Women’s Infoteka cooperate with similar centers all over the world, trying to
strengthen the cooperation, improve and widen the exchange of information, and
initiate joint projects. Representatives of Women’s Infoteka regularly attend
different events in Croatia and abroad, and very often coorganize them.

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