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Group at NAC meeting holding up voting or ballot cards, from NAC fonds at the uOttawa Archives and Special Collections

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New Online Exhibit from the Archives: Women & Politics

Using multimedia archives from the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections, this new digital exhibit “Women & Politics: 1960-2000, Political Activism for Gender Equality” highlights just a few of women's many individual and collective political acts of courage and organizing that took place in the latter half of the 20th century in Canada.

Using multimedia archives from the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections, this new digital exhibit “Women & Politics: 1960-2000, Political Activism for Gender Equality” highlights just a few of women's many individual and collective political acts of courage and organizing t...

October 25, 2023

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Witches Week Lecture Series: Witch, Who Are You?

Week of activities (online and in person) from Monday, October 30 to Friday, November 3, 2023

October 4, 2023

Photograph of Virginia Wolf and Radclyffe Hall

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Literature (Un)Censored: Two Lesbian Literary Legends at Archives and Special Collection

Archives and Special Collections has recently obtained rare copies of two revolutionary literary works by queer women writers: a first edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) and a signed edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)

May 26, 2023

a young woman in a rocking chair, nursing an infant.

Women's Archives

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Changing views on Motherhood

Photographer Judith Lermer Crawley is among the hundreds of Canadian women and organizations whose work and records are housed in the Canadian Women’s Archives, a sweeping and ongoing collection of physical and digital artifacts, the goal of which is to bring women’s lives and contributions out of the shadows and give them their rightful place in history.

Photographer Judith Lermer Crawley is among the hundreds of Canadian women and organizations whose work and records are housed in the Canadian Women’s Archives, a sweeping and ongoing collection of physical and digital artifacts, the goal of which is to bring women’s lives and contributions out of t...

May 11, 2023

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft’s best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is among the earliest works of proto-feminist philosophy. Recently, Archives & Special Collections acquired a first edition. Its addition to our shelves not only enriches Morisset Library’s rare books collection, but also complements the numerous records of the Women’s Archives, which document the work of indivi...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is among the earliest works of proto-feminist philosophy. Recently, Archives & Special Collections acquired a first edition. Its addition to our shelves not only enriches Morisset Library’s rare books collection, ...

April 17, 2023