This intimate portrait of Gonnie Scholten was drawn by the artist Rie Knipscheer in 1986. Gonnie Scholten was born on April 29th 1906 in Spankeren aan de IJssel and died on February 22nd 2005 in Doorn. In the 1920s, she studied theology in Leiden. In 1931, she married Willem Scholten and had six children. She worked as an assistant […]

There is a clear and significant difference between the propaganda resources which were created in the fight for women’s suffrage and those in, for example, the fight for the right on abortion during the so-called second feminist wave. This is clearly evident by comparing these brooches to a button with the text ‘Legalize abortion’! Atria has a silver applesauce […]

In the south of the Netherlands – the catholic part – this placard could be found hanging in the bus.

Among the thousands of items that were retrieved from Moscow in 2003, was this extraordinarily watercolour of Rosa Manus (1881-1942). Rosa Manus, ‘a modern woman of stature’, was one of the founders and the first president of the International Archives for the Women’s movement in 1935. At the bottom right ‘J.H. Sp. 27’. These intitials […]