Women's and Gender Studies Databases
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Alternative and independent press newspapers, magazines, and journals, from 1970 to present; included in the TDM Studio text visualization dashboard; please see the
ProQuest TDM Studio guide for access information.
Search across publisher Adam Matthew’s primary-source collections of digitized archival content from archives around the world on numerous subjects, including but not limited to literature, history, social issues, cultural studies, global trade, news, and more.
Archival documents relating to the historical, political, social, legal, and health aspects of sex, sexuality, and gender. Contains newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and more. Includes modules on LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (parts 1-2); Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture; Community and Identity in North America.
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Articles on women's issues covering such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy, aging, gerontology and human rights. Coverage starts with 1992.
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Primary source material from multiple museum and library collections relevant to the study of traditional gender roles, education, ideals of conduct, education, exercise, distribution of power within the family, and consumption and leisure. Primary sources include correspondence, diaries, ephemera, government documents, manuscripts, periodicals, printed books along with secondary material such as biographical information, chronologies, and topical essays.
Journals and magazines covering anthropology, gender studies, sociology, and women’s studies. Provided by NOVELNY.
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British periodicals published from 1685-1835, documenting colonial life, French and American revolutions, literature, fashion, politics, and gossip. Features many titles targeted towards women, plus an image gallery, chronology, and background essays. Includes modules 1-5.
Primary resources on everyday life from 1800-1920, including political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Emphasizes differences in regional, urban, and rural cultures.
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Articles and essays about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
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Journals and magazines on gender studies, sexual behavior, family and marital issues, LGBTQ rights, and health. Provided by NOVELNY.
Images, books, diaries, speeches, legal documents, correspondence, and men's and women's organization papers, documenting changing gender roles and relations from the early nineteenth century to the present. Material sourced from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia covering women’s suffrage, feminism, the men’s movement, the family, education, labor, sexuality, and politics.
Articles, news stories, books and reports and archival content focusing on gender.
Publication published from 1830-1885 covering fashion, health, recipes, and as well as literary works, essays, and reviews.
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Open access alternative press and underground newspapers, magazines and journals from the 1960s to 1980s, including feminist, LGBT, minority, campus, community, GI, right-wing, and small literary presses.
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Manuscripts of writing by women from the 16th and 17th centuries including poetry, prose, drama, account books, medical writing, travel writing and more; produced in association with the Perdita Project, based at the University of Warwick and previously Nottingham Trent, with content from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, The Edinburgh University Library, the Cambridge University Library.
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases in design, film, art, music, theater, and humanities.
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases, including Periodicals Archive Online, Humanities Index, American Periodicals 174-1940, digital National Security Archive, and others.
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases in political science, education, sociology, psychology, public affairs, linguistics, economics, and criminal justice.
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Unpublished papers of American sexologists, sex researchers, advocacy groups and campaigners, digitized from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections. Documents include correspondence between professional and private individuals, autobiographical accounts, official records, and literary works spanning the 19th through 21st centuries. Includes modules 1-2.
Index and abstracts to articles covering women and gender studies, including education, employment, family and community, medicine and health, social policy, media, biography, history, and more.
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Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study.
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Primary source resources, including pamphlets, letters, speeches, and publications from women's organizations, archives, and other sources across the United States.
Primary source collection of conference proceedings, books, pamphlets, articles, correspondence, diaries, non-governmental organization documents, and more focusing on women's international movements.
This collection consists of two distinct elements:
A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives
Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories
The finding aid is the result of a five-year project by staff at The National Archives in the mid-1990s and enables researchers to quickly locate details of documents at TNA relating to women. This finding aid is far more detailed and extensive than anything available elsewhere online and has the benefit of ranging across all of the document classes TNA hold.
The original documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962.
Collection of early women’s writing in English, from 1400-1850.
Female-authored literature, women’s periodicals, and other materials on women’s political activism, suffrage, birth control, civil rights, and socialism. Documents are from North and South America, Europe, East and South Asia, and Africa. Content is in English, French, German, and Dutch.
Index to women's studies and feminist research literature published in journals, newsletters, bulletins, books reports, dissertations and grey literature.