A new website about the Redstocking Movement (1970–1982) has opened in Icelandic. The site is made from the movement’s documents preserved at the Women’s History Archives. Among the many items that have been preserved are large, handmade posters showing how playful the movement could be in its actions.

The National Library´s highlight in November is a poster of the Perla Fáfnisdóttir, created by Edda Óskarsdóttir, which depicts the crowning of the cow Perla as Miss All Iceland. The Redstockings protested many beauty contests in its day and the one in which Perla was crowned took place in Akranes in September 1972. The Redstockings had initially gathered in Akranes to meet with the women’s division of the Akranes Labour Union but ended up protesting the contest that evening. They borrowed the cow from farmer Sæmundur Gíslason and crowned her “Miss Young Iceland” with a ribbon and silver crown, outside Hotel Akranes, where the beauty contest took place at a public ball. The contest was organized by two men who had recently bought the rights to hold “The Icelandic Beauty Contest” for half a million Icelandic kronas, which today is calculated to be five million kronas. Although Perla the cow was not allowed into the venue some participants at the ball did indeed cast their vote for her.