Feminist Studies Collections: Women in History

Kathy Kerns, Feminist Studies Bibliographer; kkerns@stanford.edu; (650) 725-1186

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
WSSLink's Women's History Sites from the Association for College and Research Library's Women's Studies Section
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (Duke University Library)
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 book.
Women's History at the IISH International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) with links to other sites.
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".
300 Women Who Changed the World (by Encyclopedia Britannica) includes audio and film clips.

ArchiveGrid to locate manuscript and archival material in hundreds of research libraries worldwide.
Archive Finder (US & UK/Ireland)
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.
Women's History Collections 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, 1800-1930 - access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources
Women and Gender Project (University of Texas, San Antonio)

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.
United States History - Collections: Women's History
British and Commonwealth History

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
- 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 by Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (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 on the Web
The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
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
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality
Gender-Related Electronic Forums from Joan Korenman

Last modified: August 29, 2008