David M. Rubenstein
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture
Celebrating 25 Years of Documenting Women’s History (Image by Irene Peslikis)
Documenting Women’s Artistic Lives (Needlework pattern by Sarah Goodwin)
Documenting Feminism’s Second Wave (“Kate Millett at the Los Angeles Women’s Center, 1977” photographed by Michiko Matsumoto)
Documenting Women’s Zines (Sarah Dyer’s Action Girl Comics)
Our Mission
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in Duke's Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.
News & Events
Duke Alumni Preview for "500 Years of Women’s Work: the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection"
Thursday, November 29, 6:00 p.m.
Gothic Reading Room, Rubenstein Library
Registration required ($15)
Anything and All Things of Interest to Women: The Sarah Westphal Collection
Exhibit on display in the Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery until December 2018
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The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
The Rubenstein Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a significant collection documenting women’s work, broadly conceived, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Carefully assembled over 45 years by noted bibliophile, activist and collector Lisa Unger Baskin, the collection includes more than 11,000 rare books and thousands of manuscripts, journals, ephemera and artifacts. Among the works are many well-known monuments of women’s history and literature, as well as lesser-known works produced by female scholars, printers, publishers, scientists, artists and political activists. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic of the ways that women have been productive, creative, and socially engaged over more than 500 years.
Image: Viriginia Woolf's Writing Desk, Painted by her nephew Quentin Bell, c. 1929. Photograph by Annie Schlechter.
