The Lespar Library of Women's Liberation is a Western Australian feminist library. The library was opened in 1979 in a building owned by Karin Hoffmann at

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. There are some 3000 titles in its collection. It is housed within the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Western Australia (GALAWA), located in the Geoffrey Bolton Library at

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. Holdings include international as well as Australian feminist magazines, including the

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's '' Our Women'' (1953–1971), ''Everything: Anarchist Feminist Magazine'' (1979–1985), ''As If'' (1973) and '' Lip, A Feminist Arts Journal'' (1976–1984). The library's catalogue has not been digitised, but three editions have been published in book form, the most recent in 1986.

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{{coord missing, Western Australia 1979 establishments in Australia Feminism in Western Australia Archives in Australia Libraries in Perth, Western Australia Libraries established in 1979

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