Gender Studies

Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.

Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.

Primary source collection of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of immigrants to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from U.S. and Canadian individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Also includes journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It also includes some 300 biographies on contributors.

Modules include the Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents (focus on reproductive rights); Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990 (records of the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the women's Action Alliance); Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights; and Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps (records of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps).

Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present lets you see how women’s social movements shaped many of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.