Feminist Studies Collections: Women in History

Chris Bourg, Feminist Studies Bibliographer; mchris@stanford.edu; (650) 724-9899

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
H-Women page
Women's History Resources - links from the Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin.
WSSLink's Women's History Sites from the Association for College and Research Library's Women's Studies Section
Duke University's Women's History Links
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women annotated links to historical and contemporary feminist resources, organized by the topics of each chapter of Estelle Freedman's new book.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History compiled by the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) with links to other sites.
The Lesbian History Project: Links to lesbian history by Yolanda Retter (USC)
People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History maintained by Paul Halsall (Fordham University)
WWWomen's history links
Distinguished Women of Past and Present - "biographies of women who contributed to our culture".

RLG's Archival Resources to locate manuscript and archival material in hundreds of research libraries worldwide. Stanford community only.
Archives USA holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories.
Online Archive of California searchable database of "finding aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles.
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (1543-1945) fulltext database available to the Stanford community via the Web.
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections (Duke University)
Sophia Smith Collection - Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College
Suffragists Oral History Project from UC Berkeley.
Sources for Women's History at the IISH (International Institute of Social History)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 collection of primary documents edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
Harvard's Women Working, 1870-1930 - access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources
The Lesbian Legacy Collection - One Institute/International Gay and lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA.
Archives for Research on Women and Gender (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Women's Studies Digitization Project (University of Minnesota) includes Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930

Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections - Search Socrates, Stanford's online catalog, or use finding aids developed by Special Collections.
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies: and American Literary Studies: Special Collections and Uncataloged Resources - describe a wealth of resources including:
- History of Women -microfilm copies of books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs through 1920, predominately 19th century materials drawn from the collections of Smith and Radcliffe College.
- Women Advising Women -microfilm of respresentative women's journals, almanacs, and advice books dating from 1625-1837, drawn from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
- Women, Education and Literature: the Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 - microfilm copies of literary manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of the author.

Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index "covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."
Monastic Matrix: "A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE"
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated list for discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies.
See also SULAIR Medieval Pages for more resources.

Victorian Women Writers Project
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Library Collections: Digital Schomburg)
Women in America texts by various early 19th Century European travelers.
Mary Lyon, founder of Mt. Holyoke
Women's Suffrage in the United States
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 (Library of Congress)
- Susan B. Anthony House with links to information on Anthony and suffrage, including History of the Suffrage Movement.
- Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement - text and selected images from a 1995 University of Rochester exhibit.
Godey's Lady's Book Online (University of Rochester) and Godey's Lady's Book by Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont - both with links to related web sites.
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet from Ginny Daley, Duke University
Temperance and Prohibition (Ohio State University)

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940 - searchable by keywords.
Emma Goldman Papers Project microfilm copy of papers in Stanford's Green Library Current Periodicals & Microtext (MFILM N.S. 10665).
Margaret Sanger Papers Project Microfilm in Stanford's Green Library Media Microtext Center (MFILM N.S. 12528)
Historic Government Publications from World War II use search to identify materials on women
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters During World War II (a Library of Congress exhibit)
WASP-WWII
The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke University)
Women in Vietnam

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
H-Women information on this Women's History discussion list plus links to other resources
H-MINERVA Women in the Military, Women and War
H-SAWH Women and Gender in the U.S. South
H-Frauen-L - an electronic list devoted to women and gender in early modern Europe.
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality
Gender-Related Electronic Forums "A frequently-updated listing and description of more than 200 e-mail lists that focus on women- or gender-related issues."

Feminist and Women's Periodicals at Stanford
Journal of Women's History tables of contents for recent issues, plus other information on the journal, including a link for receiving advance information on items in special issues.

Last modified: July 19, 2006