Writing European Feminisms: FRAGEN and Answers

With these papers we wish to present the FRAGEN database as an important step in documenting and making available the legacy of European feminism in the digital age. At the same time we are also hoping to press important questions about the writing of European feminist history, the formation of a feminist canon and its implications for the feminisms of the future. Over the last three years (2008-2011) European women\u27s libraries and scholars from all over Europe have been working together on the FRAGEN project, which is part of the European research project QUING funded by the EC. FRAGEN has compiled a digital database of the most significant European texts from the women\u27s movements in 27 EU countries + Turkey and Croatia. Since the launch of the database in Spring 2011 this information is available for comparative research into the legacy of feminist ideas in different European countries. This paper will provide a general outline of the project, the background and focus of the FRAGEN project