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WISG’s feminist library was founded in 2001, when it was problematic to obtain material on feminism, gender and sexuality even online. It was through filling this information vacuum that WISG began its work on gender and sexuality: along with creating a specialized website, that hosted a glossary of basic terms, as well as Georgian translations of small-scale academic articles, the organization began to build a library. It is symbolic that this initiative was supported by a donation from Ann Snitow, an American feminist activist and founder of the New York Radical Feminist consciousness-raising group. Ms Snitow was in Tbilisi at the time and, unlike many foundations, as an activist, was well aware of the urgency and context of the issue. For 20 years, the library has accumulated not only thematic literature, but also fiction. Founded through an act of solidarity, WISG’s library is open to everyone – community members, researchers or students interested in gender and sexuality.



WISG’s feminist library was founded in 2001, when it was problematic to obtain material on feminism, gender and sexuality even online. It was through filling this information vacuum that WISG began its work on gender and sexuality: along with creating a specialized website, that hosted a glossary of basic terms, as well as Georgian translations of small-scale academic articles, the organization began to build a library. It is symbolic that this initiative was supported by a donation from Ann Snitow, an American feminist activist and founder of the New York Radical Feminist consciousness-raising group. Ms Snitow was in Tbilisi at the time and, unlike many foundations, as an activist, was well aware of the urgency and context of the issue. For 20 years, the library has accumulated not only thematic literature, but also fiction. Founded through an act of solidarity, WISG’s library is open to everyone – community members, researchers or students interested in gender and sexuality.



I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

"Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is a 1969 autobiography describing the...

Gatvla

Tamta Melashvili

Unfortunately this article is not available in English, please refer...

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns home to Maycomb,...

Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter

Herta Müller

In precarious Romania of that time, fears, humiliations, and desperati...

Sexualities

Rebecca F. Plante, Michael Kimmel

Featuring a variety of readings, this interdisciplinary anthology addr...

I am Malala

Malala Yousafzai

Unfortunately this article is not available in English, please refer t...

Hild

Nicola Griffith

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and...

Virginia Woolf's Women

Vanessa Curtis

This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's clos...

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Erving Goffman

From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,&nbs...