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About the Feminist Institute
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Building Bridges Between Theory and
Practice
The
Feminist
Institute
- is an experimental workshop focused on current women’s policy
issues that reflects on traditional issues in a new way and on
novel issues from an unconventional angle.
- sets up a number of interdisciplinary and global networks
linking future-oriented research approaches with current debates.
- provides an environment where women from academia, the arts,
the public and the private sectors can exchange information and
find orientation and support.
- questions political (power) strategies and plans of action to
give impulses to sustainable gender-sensitive policies from a
feminist perspective
- encourages the next generation of feminists and supports women
from all origins
- sets women’s policy issues on the agenda
Autonomy and Integration
Conceived of as a bridge, the Feminist Institute acts as a
mediator between feminist theory and feminism in practice. The FI
evaluates women’s experiences and knowledge, debates these publicly,
and finally, transfers these into the relevant institutions and
organizations through practical policies.
The FI develops its own concepts within the thematic range of the
Heinrich-Boell-Foundation. Following the motto, “autonomy and
integration,” the FI works on developing feminist theory while also
challenging the Foundation to work towards a gender-oriented
profile.
The FI was founded in 1998, picking up the thread of the former
Frauenanstiftung, which successfully supported women’s projects and
liberation movements in societies all over the world.
Address
Feministisches
Institut in the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
Hackesche Hoefe,
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41
D - 10178 Berlin
Germany
Phone:
+49 - 30-28534-122, Fax: +49 – 30 -28534-109
E-Mail: Feministisches-Institut@boell.de
Webportal GLOW:
http://www.glow-boell.de/