Collection of women’s diaries letters, and correspondence spanning more than 300 years, covering the personal experiences of hundreds of North American women.
Collection of letters, diaries, and personal writings of American women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts. Materials are from the American Antiquarian Society.
Primary sources, including photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc., documenting the women's history in the US. Materials range from Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s. From Middle Tennessee State University.
Essays, letters, speeches, photographs, and other historical documents from the Emma Goldman Papers, plus finding aids and links to other resources. Goldman (1869-1940) was a major figure in the history of radical and feminist movements in the U.S.
Books, periodicals, and pamphlets on women's history and the evolution of feminism. Covers four centuries and 15 languages, with publications from the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and continental Europe.
Two collections in this database:
The Periodical Series: This segment represents about 25 percent of the material in the database. It comprises 265 titles, including The Suffragist (1913-21) and The Women's Protest Against Woman Suffrage (1912-18).
Monograph Language Series: These 4,471 monographs and pamphlets make up about 75 percent of the collection. Included are 2,336 titles tracing suffragism in the English-speaking world. The collection will soon include 929 German titles that document the history of organized movements in Germany and Switzerland, and 734 French titles that cover women's issues from Gallic times through World War II.
Primary sources documenting women's movements and women activists in the US, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include women and antislavery, women's suffrage, the Feminist movement, Equal Rights movement, and women's role in Civil Rights .
Primary sources focusing on women's voting rights, reproductive rights, and national politics. Includes documentation on the founding of the National Woman’s Party, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, legal cases involving Margaret Sanger and reproductive rights, and the passage in Congress of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to women's roles in the law and society. Includes legal and political documents, and secondary scholarly analysis of issues such as women's suffrage, women in the workforce, women's education, abortion, and more. Provides context on the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.
Also included are more than 70 titles from Emory University Law School's Feminism and Legal Theory Project, providing context on the effects of law and culture on the female gender.
Collection documenting the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on the radical origins of this movement. Includes manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials such as radical theoretical writings, to humorous plays, to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
Documents from the most significant socialist feminist women’s unions of the “second wave” feminist movement. CWLU was formed in 1969 and played a leading role in the women’s liberation movement in Chicago during the 1970s.
Diaries, letters, video, autobiographies, memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary from and about the Sixties.
Focuses on women's role in the U.S. economy Collection includes historical publications, manuscripts, images, and more from Harvard University's library and museum collections.
Collection of women’s diaries letters, and correspondence spanning more than 300 years, covering the personal experiences of hundreds of North American women.
Women's interest periodical published from 1830-1878; created to entertain, inform, and educate American women.
Articles on “hearth and home,” dating and marriage, fashion, entertainment, recipes, health and hygiene, remedies, morality, jewelry, handcrafts, education, suffrage, African American and immigrant women, the role of women in foreign countries, brief biographies of leading personalities, literature, recipes and remedies, and more. Includes full color plates as they originally appeared.Over time, the periodical matured into a literary magazine, with book reviews, essays, poetry, and short stories by celebrated 19th century authors.
Archives of consumer magazines published for a female audience, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. These magazines cover family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and culture, and provide canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Each magazine contains volume 1, issue 1 through 2005. Publications are in high-resolution color.
Archive of Women's Wear Daily magazine from its launch in 1910 up to six months ago, reproduced in high-resolution images. Documents the history of the fashion industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers, and advertisers.
Conference proceedings, organization reports, publications, and websites of women's non-governmental organizations. Also includes letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century, as well as photographs and videos of major events and activists in the history of women’s international social movements.
Primary and secondary sources, including magazines, pamphlets, and books, by, for, and about women, and important issues related to their lives and roles in society, including on women's education, health, and religion.
