In recent years scholars have begun the work of tracing the history of the Australian women's movement, particularly in its second wave form. In this article authors speculate on the limits and possibilities for what they loosely term 'the feminist archive' and the role it might play in forging community memory of the nature, extent, impact and legacy of second wave feminist activism in this country. Their speculations arise out of our experiences when attempting to research and teach the modern Australian women's movement, particularly from a cultural historical or cultural-literary studies perspective when the limitations of the historical record become very clear. In doing so they recognise the significance of archival sources as one the 'technologies of Western feminist storytelling'.