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Women's History
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American Periodicals This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
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Black Women Writers Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African diaspora. Coverage begins in the 18th century with narratives depicting slavery, moves through and beyond the Harlem Renaissance, and includes writers from the movements of the 1960s, covering womanism, black feminism, and related topics.
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British and Irish Womens Letters and Diaries British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 90,000 pages of diaries and letters, spanning from 1550s to 1950s. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
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Defining Gender UK primary source materials from 1450 – 1910 relating to the study of history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective. Documents include ephemera, pamphlets & periodicals, education documents, books, personal writings, business records, government papers, ballads and literature.
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Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 Unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958 Mostly Spanish-language documents relating to Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. The collection spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime (1898-1958), and contains memoirs, essays, journals, speeches, radio broadcasts and literary works.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change This collection documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
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Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs Collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Coverage includes the UK and Europe, the US and Canada, and New Zealand. Contents are primarily in English with some German, French and other languages and cover 1543-1945.
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Harper's Bazaar Archive Full colour magazine archive covering from 1867 - current. A chronicle of American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society, offering unique insights into the events, attitudes, and interests of the modern era.
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Independent Voices Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. These materials were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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International Women's Movement: Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association of the USA, 1950-1985 Founded in 1928 to strengthen international understanding and friendship among the women of Asia and the Pacific and and women of the U.S.A. Documents included cover 1938-2006 and cover the full range of the association's activities.
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Margaret Sanger Papers Covers every aspect of the birth control movement in the U.S., including the movement's changing ideologies, its campaign for legitimacy, its internal conflicts and organisational growth. Includes Sanger's correspondence, her personal papers and other papers that she collected to document the birth control movement.
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Perdita Manuscripts This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.
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Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis Drawn from the archives of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society in the U.S., this archive contains information on the founding and growth of the homophile movement, especially the Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder magazine, including early meeting minutes, correspondence, chapter records, membership data, and manuscripts unavailable elsewhere. Coverage is 1955-1984.
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis Drawn from the archives of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society in the U.S., this archive documents Lyon and Martin's work in the LGBT and women's rights movements. Coverage is 1966-1984 and documents include minutes, correspondence, notes related to their work with various organisations and materials related to their book 'Battered Wives'.
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Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979 Records of the United Domestic Workers Union (U.S) from 1965-1979, including minutes of committees, financial documents and legal documents. Topics include involvement in the Black community, the Manpower Program, the Career Learning Center, the Homemaking Skills Training Program, Maids Honor Day, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), and various federal agencies.
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Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969 Consists of reports, speeches, correspondence, and research materials from the Children's Bureau, the first U.S. federal agency dedicated entirely to protecting the welfare of children and families. The documents in this collection originate from the administrative files of bureau staff members, including the bureau's chiefs throughout the years: Julia Lathrop, Grace Abbott, Katharine Lenroot, Martha Eliot, and Katherine Oettinger.
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Sex & Sexuality Sex & Sexuality provides unprecedented access to collections from prominent sex researchers and sexologists. Papers from Dr. John Money and Dr. Harry Benjamin document advances in areas such as diverse as biology, health and medicine, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, whilst collected research from Alice Withrow Field and James W. Edwards offer important investigations into criminology and global attitudes towards sex.
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Southern Women and their Families in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Covers 1765-1923 across several collections of papers sourced from a range of Southern U.S. states. Several collections are family papers and many cover topics of illness, pregnancy and childbirth. Includes correspondence, extensive diaries, travel journals, essays and other writings created by women about their experiences of the time.
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Soviet Woman Digital Archive English language archive of the Russian magazine. Published by the Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee and the Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR to counter anti-Soviet propaganda, and introduce Western audiences to the lifestyle, role and achievements of Soviet women. Publication spans from 1945 to 1991.
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Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990 Comprised of the records of three important women's rights organisations in the U.S.: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance. Issues covered include employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care, politics and education.
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Vogue Archive Archive of the magazine American Vogue. Includes all editions from 1892 to the present. The collection provides an insight into US fashion, culture and society.
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Women's Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977 Documents Patricia Lindh's and Jeanne Holm's liaison with U.S. women's groups and their advocacy within the White House on issues of special interest to women. The bulk of the collection is derived from liaison activities with over 300 women's organisations, agency women’s groups and program units, advisory committees on women and women appointees.
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Women's Magazine Archive Archive of leading women’s interest consumer magazines from the late-19th century to 2005. Mainly US titles, but now expanded to include major UK titles as well. Subject coverage includes gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
Collections I, II and III available.
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Women's Periodicals: Social and Political Issues Covers 1786-1933 with content from the U.K. and the U.S. as well as some French, German and Icelandic publications. Includes titles published by men, for women; titles published by male editors with strong input from female assistant editors/; and titles conceived and published by women, for women.
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Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights Contains collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in the U.S. focusing on voting rights, national politics and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional, and local women leaders. For national politics, many women's own collections are included. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project, and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League.
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Women, War and Society, 1914-1918 Documents covering the First World War from the Imperial War Museum. Includes charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations.
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Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps Contains the Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1918-1965), and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps (1942-1946). Included are reports, records of bureau-sponsored conferences, speeches, articles, studies on the treatment of women by unions, community studies, subject files and correspondence. The WAC correspondence covers recruiting, public support for the WAC, personnel matters like discipline and conduct, and race.
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Women in The National Archives This collection consists of two distinct elements:
A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives.
Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories.
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Women Organizing Transnationally: The Committee of Correspondence, 1952-1969 Includes official correspondence (1952-69) as well as hundreds of letters to and from correspondents throughout the world documenting the work of the U.S. based Committee of Correspondence. Also includes official records; minutes; and multiple other publications and materials pertaining to the status and problems of the world's women.
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