Hi FEASTers,

Remember last summer when people starting talking about a SWIP archive?  It is definitely happening at the Pembroke Center, at Brown University!  We can all be proud that its birth was the discussion on this list.

Below is an official announcement and link to the website that explains the guidelines and procedures for donations (it’s NOT for individual scholarly papers, but ONLY for SWIP records).

The Steering Committee wants to thank Christina Rawls and Samantha Noll for their work that enabled the project to get off the ground.  Let me also add that Joan Callahan and Sandra Harding have done much of the heavy lifting on it this year!

I will be posting a similar announcement on other feminist philosophy lists soon, but please share the information widely in other venues in which you don’t see it posted.

Ann Garry for the Steering Committee

Joan Callahan
Ann Garry
Sandra Harding
Alison Jaggar

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We want to direct your attention to a new philosophy archive that is now open to receive donations.  The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Records.

The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Records Collection of the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University welcomes material related to the history of this important grass-roots philosophy organization.  This archive will make available to scholars in every discipline, to future generations of philosophy students, and to the general public records of the activities and concerns of all the divisions of SWIP.  SWIP has functioned for more than four decades as a "laboratory" for philosophical engagements that have transformed and diversified the projects and processes of the discipline of philosophy. 

This work has also made significant contributions to the development of feminist thinking in other fields and thus to intellectual history and public policy more generally.  For further background as well as information about how to make such donations see http://www.brown.edu/research/pembroke-center/archives/feminist-theory-archives/swip-donor-information