AVG-Carhif

AVG Carhif

The AVG conserves archives of persons and organisations active on issues related to women’s emancipation and gender equality. Most of these concern the Belgian women’s movement, some are international. A number of personal archives reflect pioneering work of women in different fields: from research in gender studies to politics. As partner organisation of the Suzan Daniel Fund, we also keep archives of the lesbian movement. The books, brochures and articles in our highlight the evolving position of women in society and the history of the women’s movement and of other actors toward gender equality. The collection of periodicals covers the entire spectrum of the women’s movement and is quite international. The poster collection illustrates a wide range of actions, protest marches, conferences, campaigns … set up by the women’s movement or policy making bodies. They are digitised systematically: for most of them, a low resolution is available online. Reproductions with a higher resolution are available on request. The photo collection brings to life actions and assemblies from the past, and the persons that took part in these. Pins, stickers, audio- and videotapes are partly described in our catalogue, other objects as yet not. This is work in progress. We also have a number of biographical files on women who have played a role in Belgian history.