Group picture 2010 from the women’s congress 2010 in Buenos Aires/Argentina

2nd picture on the women’s bridge of Porto Madero in Buenos Aires

Dear friends!

Hot congratulations with International Day of Museums.

The team of the Ukrainian gender museum wishes you successes in your activity, creative ideas and support for their realization.

One month ago we had c elebrated the birthday of the virtual version of our museum http://gendermuseum.com It was tremendous event because now we can show exhibitions and exhibits of our Museum for all.

Three exhibitions:

• “Let’s create Museum about us!” – devoted to idea and history of the creation of Museum.
• “Women support women” – devoted to women’s funds and women’s initiatives of the world. Here we will tell about women’s and gender museums.
• “Something about gender” – devoted to gender theory, gender stereotypes and ideas of equal rights.

For 18 of May – International Day of the museums we devote new exhibition – “Stop sexism!” http://gendermuseum.com/modules/stop_sx/ssexism01.html – devoted to one of the main gender problem – sexism, its causes and effects. Also we tell about first in Ukraine precedent of litigation case against sexism and women who began this case Olena Suslova and Katerina Levchenko.

For pity now we can do our site only in Ukrainian. But there are many pictures and they clear without words. But we hope through time we can do the version in different languages.

We invite you to visit our Museum. Let us create Museum about us!

The team of the Museum of the women’s history, museum of women’s and gender movement

Best regards
Tetiana Isaieva,
director of the Museum of women’s history,
history of women’s and gender movement;
Kharkiv, Ukraine
http://gendermuseum.com
http://gender.at.ua

Stadtrundgänge und Waldspaziergänge

Das frauen museum wiesbaden bietet Stadtrundgänge und Waldspaziergänge an. Ein Erlebnis auch für besondere Anlässe wie Geburtstage, Gruppen- und Betriebsausflüge…

Für Gruppen nach Vereinbarung

Die Macht der wilden Frau

Waldspaziergang – Eva Schuster

Wir wandern bergauf und bergab durch Gegenden, die z.B. Helkund, Teufelsgraben, Himmelswiese und Rabengrund heißen. Mythen, Märchen und Sagen, die von der Macht großer Göttinnen wie Nerthus, Hel, Holla, Hekate, Diana und Artemis berichten, begleiten unseren Weg.

ca. 4 Std., Treffpunkt Talstation Nerobergbahn, 7,50 Euro

Samstag, 29.5.2010, 12.00 Uhr

Sirona, Diana und Frau Fischer… – an Wiesbadens heißen Quellen

Stadtrundgang – Eva Schuster

Die heißen Quellen Wiesbadens sind ein Naturereignis besonderer Art.

Spuren, Sagen und Überlieferungen über die mit Quellen verbundenen Göttinnen und Frauen und über die Kraft der Erde und die Heilkraft des Wassers erschließen die Geschichte dieses besonderen Ortes.

ca. 2 Std., Treffpunkt Kochbrunnenplatz, Kochbrunnentempel, 7,50 Euro

Samstag, 19.6.2010, 12.00 Uhr

Mona Holm (women’s museum Norway) and Uli Gutweniger (women’s museum Italy) taked somes impressions of the big party in Buenos Aires from 22th to 25th May. The Bicenternario de la Revolución de Mayo de 1810:

In the afternoon the reports of experiences came from:
Ana Maria Riviero from the Farming and Animal Husbandry Women in Struggle from Rosario Argentina. She was telling about the hard life of farmers in her county and the problem of globalization there, but also from the problems of the women, for example that they can learn to drive tractor but not the car, so that they can not use it to go out for themselves.
Two students of Gender from the Chile University in Santiago explained that they want to start a southamerican network by Internet to continue the discussions of the IInd Feminist Congress.

Last but not least Astrid Schönweger and Bettina Bab were explaining the International Net of Women’s Museums (network womeninmuseum). They used the opportunity to explain the importance of women’s museums for the feminist and gender movement.

The last day of the congress we had 75 (!) Paper readings and audio-visual formats at the different class rooms of the University “J.F. Kennedy” in the Bartolomé Mitre Street in the morning.
The topics were:

• Culture and Art, Women’s Art Production (speakers from: Argentina, USA)
• Education and Gender (speakers from: Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Finlandia, Venezuela, Cuba)
• Women, Religions and Churches (speakers from: Argentina, Spain)
• Labor, Working Women (speakers from: Argentina, Spain)
• Sovereignty of Women on their Bodies. Lesbianism. Birth Control and Abortion (speakers from: Argentina)
• Subjectivity: identifies and culture (speakers from: Argentina)
• State, Public Policies and Gender Relationships (speakers from: Argentina, Spain, Brasil, Venezuela)
• Harmonizing Dance Workshop. Group Communication (speakers from: Argentina)
• Women in the Social Revolution of 20th Century (speakers from: China, Argentina)
• Biographies and Life Stories along the Century (speakers from: Argentina)
• Women`s struggle and Feminism (speakers from: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain)
• Since the Olimpic Movement up to Present Sport Practices (speakers from: Uruguay, Argentina)

In the afternoon it was a great discussion about prostitution and the different way to handle it, but the Highlight was Línea Fundadora from the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo”. She was coming directly from the airport arriving from Italy and was speaking about the past of this movement and the future. She said, that they will never forget what happened and they will not forgive. Until now they are fighting, that military persons, doctors and priests, which were involved in the torture of thousands of argentinians have to pay compensation. They are also trying to help the “victims of the 3rd generation”, the young people, which are 30 years old now and find out the truth of her origin. They are the children of raped and tortured women, who were given away from the military in the time of the dictatorship.
She says also, that the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” are becoming more and more, because they are fighting for her sons and daugthers, for their grandchildren against the corruption of the State and the globalization.

Alejandra Egido, a well-known actress from Cuba, interprets “Cadena Invisible” Theatrical Monology like her expression engagement with struggles for women’s right and against gender’s violence.

46 Paper readings and audio-visual formats at the different class rooms of the University “J.F. Kennedy” in the Bartolomé Mitre Street we had also in this day in the morning.

The topics were:

• Gender, classes, ethnic groups and ages (speakers from: Mexico, Brasil, Argentina)
• Sexuality pleasures and controls (speakers from: Uruguay, Spain)
• Patriarchy, prostitution an dWomen Tradce Sexuality (speakers from: Argentina)
• Access, production and transmission of Knowledge (speakers from: Argentina, Brasil, USA)
• Culture and Art, Women’s Atristic Production (speakers from: Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica)
• Women and National Liberation Wars (speakers from: USA, Bangladesh, Philippines, Bolivia, Argentina)
• Steps Back and Forwart in Political participation of Women (speakers from: Argentina, Brasil, Chile)

At 12.30 a.m. the organizing committee and special guests, also the delegations of the women’s museums were invited to the City Hall of Buenos Aires. María José Lubertino, Diputata de la Ciudad (congress woman of the city) was proud to welcome us. There was introducing Graciela Tejero Coni as the director of women’s museum Argentina and Marysa Navarro, historians’ woman and biographer from Evita Péron.

The historical exhibitions are about:
Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934), an extraordinary women from Agrentina, the first South American woman which obtained the degree of surgeon doctor. She was the President of the First International Feminist Congress in Argentina and fundet the first Nursing School in Argentina, installed the First Aid Service of the Public Assistance in Bueno Aires City, established a Psycho pedagogical Surgery School for children with conduct, phonation and learning problems and so on. (Fact Pag: originals pohotographs, gigantographies and objects: clothes, books, documents. Curator: Canas Chaure, Zulema).
Women’s Works, photographing the invisible (1880-1970), an assembling of old photos. Gabriela Laperriére de Coni, Carolina Muzzilli, Juan Bialet Masse, among many others, have described women’s working conditions, whose lives and maternitiy were torn in inhuman factories. Pictures of these women had never appeared publicly. Photographic invisibility of femal work, mirror of the socials’, subsists within the domestic environemnt and is reflected in family albums, keys to unveil the interaction between soical and personal memories. (Adriana Palomo, Argentina)

The photographic contemporary expositions are:
Carro, Andrea Verónica (Argentina): From the “daily” to the depth in the fight (Technique: digital color photographs). The photo series shows the different “facades” that are imposed to women to assume the installation of femal stereotypes.
f image and word, fotographers group from Argentina: Karina Cicovin, Denise Labraga, Eugenia Guinazu and Leticia Sahagún Alejandra, with the coordination of Alejandra Niedermaier. (Technique: photographic portraits accompanied by a brief written interview)
In occasion of the 2nd International Feminist Congress, f image and word presents the project “Facing their looks”. The project is about a series of photographic portrais and interviews with thte aim of highlighting the performance and commitment of some of the most influential contemporary argentine women photographers. The thrust of this work comines the tribute and the desire to bring a new perspective on the relationship between women and photography.

In the meantime you could see the exhibitions in different places of the Hotel Bauen, such as the plastic, historical and photographic contemporary exhibitions:
Dowek, Diana (Argentina): A Day in the Life of Maria Rosario, one workwomen. (photos with pictorial intervention)
Candioti, Ana (USA): Art and Testimony - Wmen of the Earth Series. (oil painting and acrylic)
Maldonando, Ana (Argentina): Selección (mixed technique)