Amargi Bookstore, Archive and Library

Bookstore

Amargi opened and runs the first and only feminist bookstore in Turkey. The bookstore offers feminist, anti-militaristic, anti-homophobic books, and magazines mostly in Turkish. In the bookstore literature and movie workshops are held to encourage women to express themselves. Also panels with feminist and women authors are held to discuss feminist issues and woman rights.

Archive and Library

  • Records of the Saturday discussions about feminist issues
  • Interviews with Amargi members
  • Oral History Project (film and audio records)
  • Documentation/Reports of Amargi projects, campaigns
  • Articles about feminist movements in Turkey
  • A collection of old magazine editions of Pazartesi, Sozialist Feminist Kaktüs, Roza, Jujin
  • Important books about feminist theory, feminist literature, etc.

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