{"id":5671,"date":"2011-08-11T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?page_id=5671"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T08:05:07","slug":"womens-history-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?page_id=5671","title":{"rendered":"women&#8217;s history archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key motivations behind our undertaking the Poster Women project was to document the history of the women\u2019s movement in India,  and as we prepared to put the digital archive on the net, we realized that any recording of history is incomplete without the histories of the people involved in it. Therefore, in order to supplement and enrich the information  provided in the posters, we decided to do two things:<\/p>\n<p>We asked many women activists and academicians to write about  their involvement in and visual memories of the women\u2019s movement. A  brief account of their lives \u2013 personal, informal, varied \u2013 have been  documented here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?cat=797\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a list of<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> memories<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>We asked feminist activists who have been part of the women\u2019s  movement for many years to interview their colleagues and comrades to  tell their individual stories, things that they don\u2019t tell because all  too often they are not asked, and through their lives to trace a history  of women\u2019s activism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?category_name=interviews\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a list of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>interviews<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key motivations behind our undertaking the Poster Women project was to document the history of the women\u2019s movement in India, and as we prepared to put the digital archive on the net, we realized that any recording of history is incomplete without the histories of the people involved in it. Therefore, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}