Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 This link opens in a new window
- Find primary and secondary documents and images of womens social movements from 1600-2000.
- Permitted Uses
Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online This link opens in a new window
- Find primary sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature.
- Divided into 5 thematic areas: Conduct and politeness; Domesticity and the family; Consumption and leisure; Education and sensibility; The body.
- Permitted Uses
Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new window
- This cross-cultural resource for information on women's history documents feminist thought and initiative around the world with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages.
- Coverage:1543-1945.
- Permitted Uses
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
- Find letters and diaries of 500 women from 1500-1900. Includes biographies and bibliographies.
- Permitted Uses
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
- Find letters and diaries of 1325 American women from colonial times, from 1500-1950, including a few Canadian women.
- Permitted Uses
Sixties This link opens in a new window
- Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974.
- Find diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
- Covers American history, culture, and politics.
- Permitted Uses