The Women’s Library: CIMA Travel Fellow Silvia Bottinelli in Bologna

THIS IS A GUEST POST BY CIMA 2016-17 TRAVEL FELLOW SILVIA BOTTINELLI.

Nestled within the spaces of the Santa Cristina Convent in Bologna, the Biblioteca delle Donne (The Women’s Library) is the most prominent Italian library devoted to gender studies and feminism.

Its rooms and collections occupy part of a historical building, which…