Research Centers, Archives, Libraries, and Special Collections (International)

Archives, libraries, special collections, and research centers related to women, gender, sexuality, feminisms, LGBTQ+ studies, and related topics, outside of the United States.

Transnational/Multi-Country

• Asia Pacific Women’s Information Network Center aims to promote gender equality in the digital sphere and improve the digital skills of women in the Asia Pacific region. 
• Feminist Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research – a diverse collective of feminist scholars working in various strands of drama, theatre, and performance in different parts of the world
• i.d.a. – umbrella organization for German-language lesbian/women’s archives, libraries and documentation offices from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Italy
• LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory connects archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a digital history hub for the research and study of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans oral histories.
• NIKK: Nordic Information on Gender – collect, disseminate and analyse knowledge about policy and practice, data and research in the field of gender equality and LGBTI with a Nordic and cross-sectoral perspective
• Queer Archives Institute – a non-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to research, collection, digitalisation, presentation, exhibition, analysis and artistic interpretation of queer archives, with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe
• The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies connects leading research institutes and centres from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North, Central and South America, and aims to facilitate collaboration and contacts within gender studies across the world.

Aotearoa New Zealand

• Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa, Wellington
• LGBTQI+ histories of Aotearoa New Zealand – Kōrero takatāpui ki Aotearoa at the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

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Argentina

• The Archive of Trans Memory

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Australia

Research Centers

• The Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion @ Work, University of Sydney
• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• Centre for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health at Monash University
• The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at The University of Adelaide
• HER Centre Australia at Monash University
• Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre at Monash University
• Sexualities and Genders Research at Western Sydney University

Archives, Libraries, Special Collections

• Australian Queer Archives, St. Kilda
• Australian Women’s Register
• Jessie Street National Women’s Library, Sydney
• Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive, University of Melbourne
• The Women’s Library, Sydney
• Women, Migration and the Building of Australia at the University of Melbourne

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Austria

• Ariadne – the women-and-gender-specific knowledge portal, Austrian National Library
• FRIDA: the Society for the Promotion and Networking of Women-specific Information and Documentation Institutions in Austria
• Stichwort – Archives of the Women’s & Lesbians’ Movement, Vienna

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Barbados

• Institute for Gender & Development Studies, The University of the West Indies

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Belgium

• Sophia – Belgian Gender Studies Network, Bruxelles

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Canada

Research Centers

• The Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender and Social Justice at Mount Saint Vincent University
• Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage
• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
• Centre for Feminist Research at York University
• Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age Studies – University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal
• Institute for International Women’s Rights, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa
• Feminist Philosophy Research Group at the University of Guelph, Ontario
• FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
• Fyrefly Institute for Gender and Sexuality Diversity, University of Alberta
• Hive for Feminist Research at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
• Law and Feminism Research Group, Western University, Ontario
• Northern Feminist Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Northern British Columbia
• Queen’s Feminist Ethnography Network at Queen’s University
• The Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL) at the University of Toronto, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
• Reproductive Mental Health Research Unit, University of Regina
• Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta
• Women’s and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
• Women’s College Hospital Research Institute, University of Toronto

Archives, Libraries, Special Collections

• The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
• Florence Nightingale Letters at the University of British Columbia
• LGBT2SQ+ Community Archive, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton
• Manitoba Gay and Lesbian Archives, University of Manitoba
• National Council of Jewish Women collection in the Canadian Jewish Archives
• Open Book Library at the Montreal LGBTQ+ Community Centre, Quebec
• Quebec Gay Archives/Archives Gaies du Quebec, Montreal
• Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project
• Sexual Representation Collection at the University of Toronto, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
• Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
• Two-Spirit Archives at the University of Winnipeg
• Women’s Archives and Special Collections at University of Ottawa

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Chile

• Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (Center for the Study of Women), Santiago

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China

• Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Global Women’s Development Institute, Chinese Women’s College, Beijing
• Institute of Socialist Women’s Theory in the New Era, Chinese Women’s College, Beijing

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Costa Rica

• Centro de Investigación en Estudios de la Mujer (Centre for Research in Women’s Studies), Universidad de Costa Rica

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Croatia

• Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb

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Cyprus

• Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Nicosia

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Czech Republic

• Gender Studies, o.p.s., Prague

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Denmark

• Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference – University of Copenhagen
• KVINFO, Copenhagen

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Dominican Republic

• Centre for Gender Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo

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Egypt

• Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University in Cairo

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England

Research Centers

• Cambridge Reproduction, University of Cambridge
• Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, SOAS University of London
• The Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing at the University of Kent
• Centre for Gender Studies, University of London
• Centre for Gender Studies, University of Sussex
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds
• Centre for Queer History, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, Leicester
• Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick
• The Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York
• Gender and Feminist Theory research group, University of Birmingham
• Gender, Politics and Society Research Group at the University of Bath
• Global Sexual & Gender Identities Policy Lab, London School of Economics and Political Science
• International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford
• University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health at University of Birmingham
• Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub, London School of Economics and Political Science

Archives, Libraries, Special Collections

• Bishopsgate Institute, London, including:
  • Feminist and Women’s History
  • LGBTQIA+ Archives
• Feminist Archive North, University of Leeds
• Feminist Archive South, University of Bristol
• Feminist Libraries & Archives Network, London
• The Feminist Library, London
• Gender Community Lending Library
• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives
• Museum of Transology, London
• Queer Britain, the National LGBTQ+ Museum, London
• Queer Heritage South, Brighton
• The Women’s Library at the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Estonia

• Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre, Tallinn

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Finland

• Gender diversity, LGBTIQ lives and history at the Finnish Social Science Data Archive
• Gender Studies Research Group at University of Oulu
• Hilma Network for Gender Studies
• Society of Gender Studies (Sällskapet för genusforskning ry)

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France

• Centre Archives LGBTQI+, Paris
• Centre for Education, Documentation and Research for Feminist Studies, University of Paris Diderot
• Centre for the Archives of Feminism, Angers

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Germany

Research Centers

• Braunschweiger Zentrum für Gender Studies (Center for Gender Studies)
• Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• Das Centrum für Postcolonial und Gender Studies (Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies), Universität Trier
• Cornelia Goethe Center for Gender Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• Essener Kolleg für Geschlechterforschung (Essen College of Gender Research), Universität Duisburg Essen
• Institut für Interdisziplinäre Genderforschung und Diversity (Institute for Interdisciplinary Gender Research and Diversity), Fachhochschule Kiel
• Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechter­forschung (Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies), Universität Bielefeld
• Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• Mariann Steegmann Institut Kunst & Gender (Art and Gender)
• Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies, Ruhr Universität Bochum
• Zentrums für Anthropologie und Gender Studies (Center for Anthropology and Gender Studies), University of Freiburg

Archives, Libraries, Special Collections

• Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung (Archive of the German Women’s Movement)
• Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld, Berlin
• Digital Audre Lorde Archive at Freie Universität Berlin
• Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv (Digital German Women’s Archive)
• Das feministische Archiv FFBIZ (The Feminist Archive FFBIZ), Berlin
• Frauen*stadtarchiv Dresden (Women’s City Archive), Dresden
• Schwules Museum (The Gay Museum), Berlin

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Ghana

• Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana

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Greece

• Center for Social Gender Studies, University of Crete

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India

• Centre for Social Research, New Delhi
• Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi
• SPARROW: Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai
• Women’s Studies and Development Centre at University of Delhi
• Women’s Studies Centre at Tripura University

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Indonesia

• Queer Indonesia Archive

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Iran

• Women and Family Research Institute, Qom

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Ireland

• Centre for Global Women’s Studies, University of Galway, Galway
• Centre for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Trinity College Dublin
• Cork LGBT Archive
• Irish Queer Archive at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin
• Sources on Women’s History, National Archives of Ireland, Dublin
• Trinity Centre for Gender Equality and Leadership, Trinity College, Dublin

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Italy

• Archivio di Storia Delle Donne di Bologna (The Archive of the History of the Women of Bologna), Bologna
• Associazione Archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne (Archive for the memory and writing of women), Florence
• Biblioteca Italiana Delle Donne (The Italian Women’s Library), Bologna
• Casa Internazionale Delle Donne Biblio Archiva (International House of Women archive), Rome
• Centro Documentazione Donna di Modena (Modena Women’s Documentation Centre), Modena
• Epistolæ: Medieval Women’s Latin Letters, University of Siena
• Fondazione “Elvira Badaracco” Studi e documentazione delle donne (Elvira Badaracco Foundation for Women’s Studies and Documentation), Milan
• Fondo Zumaglino (Zumaglino Fund reference archive), Turin
• OUT-TAKES – The Archives of the Self, Bologna
• Research Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at Universitȧ di Torino

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Japan

• Institute for Gender Studies at Ochanomizu University, Bunkyō
• National Women’s Education Center of Japan, Saitama

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Jordan

• Center for Women’s Studies, University of Jordan, Amman

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Lebanon

• The Arab Institute for Women, Lebanese American University, Beirut

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Lithuania

• Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Vilnius
• Lithuanian Queer Archive

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Malaysia

• Center for Research on Women and Gender, Universiti Sains Malaysia

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Mexico

• Archivos y Memorias Diversas, Mexico City
• Centro de Estudios de Género (Center for Gender Studies), El Colegio De México
• Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (Center for Gender Research and Studies),  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Netherlands

• Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality at the University of Amsterdam
• Atria: Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History, Amsterdam
• Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Groningen
• IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, Amsterdam
• Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies at Utrecht University

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Northern Ireland

• Centre for Gender In Politics, Queen’s University Belfast

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Norway

• Center for Gender Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Center for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women, University of Bergen
• Centre for Gender and Equality, University of Agder, Kristiansand
• Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
• Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger
• Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
• Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen
• Driv – Center for Women’s Health Research, University of Bergen
• Kilden Gender Research, Oslo
• The Norwegian Queer Archives, Bergen
• The Norwegian Queer Research Group, Kristiana University of Applied Sciences, Oslo
• Norwegian Research Centre for Women’s Health, Oslo University Hospital
• Queer Research Group, University of Stavanger
• The Women’s Law Institute, University of Oslo

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Philippines

• Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Philippines, Quezon City

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Poland

• QueerMuzeum Warsaw

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Scotland

• Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research, University of Aberdeen
• Centre for Gender History, University of Glasgow
• GENDER.ED, University of Edinburgh
• Glasgow Women’s Library 
• Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, Edinburgh
• Mother and Infant Research Unit at the University of Dundee

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Singapore

• The Singapore Queer Oral History Archive

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Slovakia

• Centre for Gender Studies at Comenius University Bratislava

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South Africa

• African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
• Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
• GALA Queer Archive, Braamfontein
• Institute for Gender Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria

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South Korea

• Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
• Institute for Gender and Law, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
• The Institute for Women’s Studies at Keimyung University
• Institute of Gender Research at Seoul National University
• The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature
• Korean Women’s Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
• Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University
• Women’s Studies Center, Pusan National University, Busan

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Spain

• Eskalera Karakola, Madrid
• Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género (University Institute for the Study and Research of Women and Gender) – Universidad de Granada, Granada. Spanish.
• Documentation Centre of Fluvià of Casal Lambda at the LGTBI Barcelona Centre
• Investigaciones Feministas (Feminist Investigations), Universidad Complutense Madrid
• University Institute of Gender Studies Research, University of Alicante
• University Institute of Women’s Studies, Universidad de la Laguna
• University Institute of Women’s Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid

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Sri Lanka

• Centre for Women’s Research, Colombo

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Sweden

• The Archives and Library of the Queer Movement, Gothenburg
• Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University
• Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala Universitet
• CFS – Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro University
• Kvinnsam, University of Gothenburg
• Tema Genus, Linköping University
• Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University

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Switzerland

• Centre en études genre (Centre in Gender Studies), University of Lausanne
• Gosteli Archive, Worblaufen
• Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern
• Women’s Culture Archive, Chur

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Thailand

• Center on Gender and Forced Displacement at Asian Institute of Technology

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Turkey

• Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi ve Bilgi Merkezi Vakfı (Women’s Works Library and Information Center Foundation), Istanbul

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Venezuela

• Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (Center for Women’s Studies), Universidad Central de Venezuela

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Wales

• Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales
• The Centre for Research into Gender and Culture in Society, Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe
• GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive at the Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Cardiff

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