Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Türkiye’de Arşivciliğin Dünü Bugünü Yarını- Kadınların Arşivlerdeki Yeri, Aslı Davaz,Birsen Talay Keşoğlu,Seval Ünlü,Tuba Demirci, Editör, Beykoz Üniversitesi, İstanbul, ss.552-582, 2022
How I became an Archiving activist while writing women’s history? What do the documents in a private archive tell us?
Women’s archives and women’s private archives are physical and symbolic sites where women’s experiences are documented and preserved. They have been set up as an outcome of the feminist history, which diagnosed the lack of women’s documents as a consequence of the power relations between men and women in patriarchal society. Because under such unequal social relations where men define and dominate the discourses as utterers, administrators and recorders, and women are positioned as secondary and in subjection to them, women’s documents are missing, women are not recorded into the history, or to say the least, they are insufficiently recorded. They are neither represented in traditional sources or state-owned archives. Therefore, there is the need for such places where women’s documents about their lives and activities are kept and preserved with care and accessibility to the use of researchers. In many countries of the world, as well as in Turkey, such institutions are being established. Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation is the most important institution set up for this mission. Nearly 80 women have granted their private archives to the Women’s Library. I also gave my archive to the Women’s Library in 2014, with full dedication to its mission since the time it was founded in 1990. Since then I have continued collecting documents and have given new material to the Library as part of my archive. In this article, I will try to describe how I produced my archive as an outlet for the problems I have encountered in my research mainly because of lack of sources. How did I form my archive? I will try to answer the following questions: How do the archival documents address to us as readers? What do the documents in a private archive tell us? Information about the society lived in? The subjective viewpoint of the collector of the private archive? Why did I undertake this task of forming an archive? Which methods did I follow in this process of storage? Where do I find them? What is my methodology, my sites of collection? What are the components of my own archive?