Centro Documentazione Donna, Ferrara, Italy

The Centro Documentazione Donna (CDD) is a cultural centre specialised on production and collection of literature and documentation relevant to women’s studies and issues. Since its establishment in 1980, it has been leading the way among others similar Italian institutions.

As our main activity, we run a Gender Library containing approximately 7.000 books both fiction and non fiction. The non fiction section ranges from history, anthropology, economy to psychology and philosophy, all related to women’s condition. We also host a newspaper library where complete year’s issues of many feminist magazines (200 titles approximately) are collected. The archive contains the documentation produced during the ‘70s by the women’s liberation movements. The CDD library participates to the Ferrara Public Libraries Consortium and is in agreement with the Town Hall. It provides borrowing and counselling services to researchers and students for their dissertations.

You can find the CDD library catalogue at the following web address: http://opac.unife.it/SebinaOpac/Opac

Other CDD activities are:

Books presentations, screening of movies and relevant debates, lectures, conventions, seminars, expositions, reading/ writing workshops.