ABSTRACT
The Institute in Amsterdam, nowadays known as “Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History”, is one of the oldest women’s libraries and archives in the world. It was founded in December 1935 by three Dutch feminists who had each been or still were active in the national and international women’s movement: historian Johanna W.A. Naber (1859-1941), international feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus (1881-1942), and economist Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (1897-1989). The International Archives for the Women’s Movement (Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging, Iav), as the Institute was known until 1988, collected books, journals, photographs, and archives. The collection held in Atria still bears the name of Iav.
