Women & Gender Studies

Provides full-text articles for over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses, from 1970 to current.

Collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, gender research and gender studies research. Materials span the sixteenth to twentieth-first centuries. Documentation covering disciplines such as social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities around the world are included, as well as rare and unique books on sex and sexuality from the sciences to the humanities.

Collection of digitized primary sources depicting gender in British history, literature, society, and culture. Material types include ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, government papers, illustrated writings on anatomy, writings on midwifery, art and fashion publications, receipt books, conduct and advice literature, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, literary manuscripts, and travel writing.

Collection of digitized primary sources that illuminate the daily lives of women in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Conduct of life manuals and domestic management literature are major highlights of the collection. The collection includes monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides. Materials in this collection provide insight into a wide variety of topics, including political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, pastimes, and regional, urban, and rural cultures. Coverage: 1800-1920.

Primary source documents related to voting rights activist and civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer. The papers include correspondence, financial records, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other records documenting her activities with a variety of organizations.

Note: ProQuest's GenderWatch and LGBT Magazine Archive have been incorporated into this database. ProQuest One Women's Studies brings together award-winning content into one destination that can be used for research, teaching, and learning. Combining primary and secondary sources, leading historical magazines and periodicals, primary source collections, document projects and exhibits, government materials, video, and essays by top scholars in the field, this easy-to-use interface will enable students to find the resources they need, by topic pages, timelines, source types and more.

Personal writings of women of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts and extensively indexed. The letters and diaries reveal, in each woman’s own hand, the details of the authors’ daily lives, their activities and concerns, and their attitudes towards the people and world around them. The collection is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. Spanning 1750 to 1950, the database is particularly strong in nineteenth-century material.

Provides access to full-text North American women's diaries and letters from the Colonial period to 1990s; includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of database sources.

Previously rare and inaccessible, high-demand primary source material. Complete back files of the most renowned publications of this type. Opens up countless new opportunities for multidisciplinary research.

Collects primary source materials providing insight into women’s social movements around the world. Includes conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, essays, diaries, letters, and memoirs of international women activists dating as far back as the middle nineteenth century.

Includes primary documents, images, scholarly essays, and bibliographies documenting women's reform efforts in the United States between 1600 and 2000.