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- A Woman's Work is Never Done - American Antiquarian Society
- African-American Women - On-line Archival Collections - Features scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of African-American women in the Special Collections Library at Duke University. Consists of:
Elizabeth Johnson Harris, Life Story, 1867-1923,
Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, 1837-1838, and Vilet Lester Letter, 1857.
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - "Collection of electronic texts has been assembled from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, focusing on the writers who founded the African American women's literary tradition." (New York Public Library)
- Amazone - Describes itself as a "national resource center on equality between women and men." It also includes news, links to other resources and a searchable catalogue of women's history (in French & Dutch).
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- American Women in the Twentieth Century: A Selective Guide to the Materials in the British Library - By Jean Kemble, The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library, 2002. This 58 page bibliogray (pdf) is arranged by subject
- American Women's History: A Research Guide - Ken Middleton's comprehensive annotated subject guide provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. Middleton is a reference and microforms librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library.
- Andrea Dworkin Online Library - Nikki Craft, the creator of this web site, received specific permission for the copyrighted texts that appears here.
- Aphra Behn Page - "First professional woman writer in English, lived from 1640 to 1689. After John Dryden, she was the most prolific dramatist of the Restoration, but it is for her pioneering work in prose narrative that she achieved her place in literary history." Site has links to Primary Sources.
- Ardent Spirits: the Origins of the American Temperance Movement - Virtual exhibition, April 19-November 24th, 1999 at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Ariadne - Women's Studies database maintained by the Austrian National Library. (In German, but some portions available in English.) The Ariadne database on women's and gender studies indexes articles published in journals, anthologies, etc.
- Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung - Archive of the German Women's Movement. A search for Wollstonecraft, for example, retrieves 17 results
- Arthur & Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America - There an alphabetical list of Finding Aids.
- An Overlooked Pioneer: Blanche Evans Hazard, Cornell University's First Professor of Women's Studies, 1914-1922 - By Corey Ryan Earle, Summer, 2006.
- BUBL: Women - Catalogue of selected Internet resources compiled by the Centre for Digital Library Research, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Catalyst - "Leading research and advisory organization working with businesses and the professions to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women at work." They compile an annual Census of Women in Fortune 500 Corporate Officer and Board Positions.
- Celebrating Women's Achievements - National Library of Canada.
- Canada’s Early Women Writers - Biographical and publication information for more than 470 Canadian women writers. A project of the Simon Fraser University Library Electronic Document Centre, which also has a Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project which has digitized the letters of Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson (1794-1860) and Harriet Martineau (1802-1876).
- Celebrating Women's History Resource Center - Over 80 biographies of women ranging from Sarah and Angelina Grimké to Sandra Day O'Connor.
- Celebration of Women Writers - Extensive collection of links to texts and biographical material, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The collection is browsable by author name, century, country and ethnicity.
- Center for the American Woman and Politics - Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers provides summaries and fact sheets about women office holders in the U.S. Congress. (See also Congresswomen's Biographies.)
- Center for Women and Information Technology - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Le Centre des Archives de féminisme - Université d'Angers. Archives of French feminists (Cécile Brunschvicg, Laure Beddoukh, Florence Montreynaud, Yvette Roudy, Marie Bonnevial, Eliane Viennot.) Includes some full text.
- Child Support Enforcement Home Page - Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. Includes a link to related State IV-D program Web sites.
- CIA Center for Studies of Intelligence - With 80 page report by Amy O'Neill Richard (prepared in November 1999 and issued in April 2000) on the International Trafficking In Women To The United States: A Contemporary Manifesto on Slavery and Organized Crime in pdf format (DCI Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program Intelligence Monograph.)
- Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections - Duke University
- Committee on Women in Science and Engineering - Made up of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.
- Congresswomen's Biographies - Brief biographies of all women who have served or are currently serving in the House of Representatives, organized by name,
date, or
state. Provided by the Office of the Clerk. (See also Center for the American Woman and Politics.)
- CNN/SI: Women's Sports - From CNN and Sports Illustrated
- A “Daring Experiment”: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 -
- Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World - Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas, University of Kentucky. There are Essays and an Anthology of Translated Texts which provides links to primary sources at Diotima and elsewhere.
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Danuta Bois provides biographies of women, searchable by field of activity and name.
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - On-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University. Categories include Women of Color and Organizations and Activism. Another gem is Fight on Sisters and Other Songs for Liberation: Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, the full-text of Carol Hanisch's 29-page song book with scores and lyrics.
- Dolley Madison Project - University of Virginia
- Domestic Goddesses: AKA Scribbling Women - A moderated E-journal, devoted to women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote "domestic fiction." Writers include Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner and Edith Wharton.
- DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address - Northwestern University archive of American oratory and related documents is searchable and browsable by speaker, title, date or issue. Here you'll find Amelia Bloomer's Woman's Right to the Ballot (1895), Jane Addams' Why Women Should Vote (1915), Alice Stone Blackwell's Objections Answered (1915), Carrie Chapman Catt's Do You Know? (1915) and Hillary Clinton's Women's Rights are Human Rights (1995).
- Dress for Success - National not-for-profit
organization which distributes interview-appropriate clothing to low-income women seeking employment.
- Early Canadiana Online - "Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada."
- Eleanor Roosevelt Papers - George Washington University. Has Online Documents
- Emancipation of Women: 1750 - 1920 - Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
- EMILY's List - "An acronym for "Early Money is Like Yeast" (it makes the dough rise), EMILY's List identifies viable pro-choice Democratic women candidates for key federal and statewide offices."
- Eminent women of the age being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation (1868) - Full-text of the 656 page book from the Making of America Project.
- Emma Goldman Papers - Berkeley Digital Library (SunSITE)
- Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters - "Emma Spaulding Bryant wrote these ten letters to her husband, John Emory Bryant, in the summer of 1873. They recount Emma's activities during that summer when she and her daughter, Alice, were visiting relatives in Illinois and Ohio while her husband tended to his political affairs in Georgia. Because these letters are unusually frank for this time period, they reveal much about the relationships between husbands and wives in this era, and shed light on medical practices that were often kept private." (From the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.)
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project - Collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The site has a Text List and is searchable.
- Ending Violence Against Women - In the quarterly journal Population Reports, December 1999.
- Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
- Family Violence Prevention Fund - Contents include Newsdesk, Facts and Personal Stories.
- Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project
- Feminist Bookstores Index - Lee Anne Phillips, Women's Books Online
- Feminist.com
- Feminist Majority Foundation - Provides news, calendar, and a number of special sections including the
Women & Girls in Sports, resources for Violence Against Women,
Feminist Research Center and
Breast Cancer Center.
Feminist Chronicles 1953 - 1993 provide a timeline of significant events from 1953-1993.
- Feminist Press - City University of New York
- Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia - Laura Quilter's site provides author bibliographies with brief plot summaries, subject index, non-fiction bibliography on feminist science fiction, fantasy, and utopias, and links to related resources.
- Feminist Theory Website - Created by Kristin Switala, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the site is divided into three sections: Fields Within Feminism, National and Ethnic Feminisms, and Individual Feminists.
- Femmes Ecrivains et littérature africaine francophone - French Department at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; also available in English
- First Ladies' Gallery - Whitehouse site provides short biographical essays on all the First Ladies.
- 4000 Years of Women in Science - University of Alabama
- Gender and Food Security - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Women and Population Division.
- Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database - "Searchable database providing access to over 7,000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature." Also available in German.(Universität zu Köln Englisches Seminar.)
- Genesis: Developing Access to Women's History Sources in the British Isles - "Database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles." A search for Pankhurst, for example, retrieves over 40 records pertaining to both Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst.
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World - Liz Linton. Browse by name or by year.
- Girl Culture Faculty Guide - Educator's guide to a photography exhibition organized by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, on body identity issues. Lauren Greenfield's book, Girl Culture, was published in 2002. See Review in Time Magazine, November 4, 2002.
- Global Reproductive Health Forum - Harvard School of Public Health has material for West Africa and South Asia and there is Women of Color Web.
- Guide to the Papers of Women Artists - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- A Guide to Writings By or About Women in Pre-Independent India - Compiled by Donald Clay Johnson, Curator, Ames Library of South Asia, Univ. of Minnesota.
- Harvard Law School Forum - With RealAudio sound files of Past Programs dating back to 1954 featuring an impressive array of speakers including Betty Friedan, Christy Hefner, Marybeth Whitehead and Erma Bombeck.
- Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War - Online companion to the University of Virginia exhibition held August 2 to October 15, 1997.
- Hedgebrook - Whidbey Island, Washington. " Six cottages were crafted in the Amish "post-and-beam" style, each featuring writing and reading areas, a small kitchen, a wood-burning stove, a sleeping loft with a stained glass window and fixtures designed by local artisans. Nancy sited the cottages herself, and worked alongside the builders and craftsman. In August 1988, Hedgebrook opened to its first session of writers."
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- Heroines of Peace: the Nine Nobel Women - Irwin Abrams has written short essays on the 9 women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Baroness Bertha Von Suttner, Jane Addams, Emily Green Balch, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Mother Theresa, Alva Myrdal, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum. (c1994).
- History of Education Site - Dutch site has section on Women's Education.
- History of Women's Suffrage - World Book
- History Through Paper Windows: Diligently Seeking Susan - Catherine Petroski investigates the diary of Susan Hathorn, of Richmond, Maine, a sea-captain's wife of the 1850s; Duke University Alumni Magazine.
- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH) - "Core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950..." (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.) Titles of interest include Wimples and crisping pins: being studies in the coiffure and ornaments of women (1894) by Theodore Child, The Women's Garment Workers: a History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (1924) by Lewis Levitzki Lorwin, Women and the Labor Movement (1923) by Alice Henry, The life of Ellen H. Richards (1912) by Caroline Louisa Hunt and The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell.
- Images of Women in Ancient Art: Issues of Interpretation and Identity - Compiled and written by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College. With sections on Wild Women: the Amazons and Gorgons. Background material and images are provided for women in Prehistory, Egypt, the Aegean, Palestine, Greece and Barbarian Women.
- International Alliance for Women in Music - "Resource on women composers and women in music topics. This community archive is developed and maintained by members of the IAWM and contains more than 3500 pages of archival resources. There is a collection of links to Internet resources on Historical Women Composers.
- International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) - Virginia Tech; includes guide to the collection, biographies of women architects, searchable by name and country, text of selected IAWA Newsletters, and links to related sites.
- International Institute of Social History - Located in Amsterdam, the IISH is "one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. It "holds close to 2,000 archival collections, some 1 million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items.
- Collections - Include Image & Sound Collections and Archives
- VIVA: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals - Current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than hundred European, American and Indian Journals.
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall, a graduate student at Fordham University, has collected links to "online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas."
- Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project - Artists are listed by name, medium and location.
- Iowa Women's Archive - University of Iowa collection "holds more than 900 manuscript collections that chronicle the lives and work of Iowa women, their families, and their communities. These personal papers and organizational records date from the nineteenth century to the present." Includes an online exhibition on Katharine La Sheck: 1891-1971, a musician, actress and dancer from Iowa City who toured on the Chautauqua circuit.
- Italian Women Writers - University of Chicago
- Jewish Women's Archive - With online exhibitions on
Bobbie Rosenfeld,
Bella Abzug,
Barbara Myerhoff, Rebecca Gratz, Emma Lazarus, Molly Picon, Justine Wise Polier, Hannah G. Solomon and Lilian Wald.
- Judy Chicago
- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers - (Formerly 19th Century Women Writers Web.)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog - Try a subject search for Woman-Suffrage or Women's Rights. Other national union online catalogs include the UK's COPAC which provides access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, resAnet the National Library of Canada Catalogue, the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog which provides access to 50 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide and the BN-OPALE PLUS from Bibliothèque Nationale de France which provides access to their online web catalog with over 7 million records.
- Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II - Sheridan Harvey (14:00)
- Patronage and Power: Women Movers and Shakers in the Indian Subcontinent - Panel IV: Women and Art - 20 April 2007 [45 minutes].
- Women Who Dare - November 16, 2006. [54 minutes]. "The six books and their authors are "Women of the Suffrage Movement" by Janice E. Ruth and Evelyn Sinclair, "Women of the Civil War" by Michelle A. Krowl, "Helen Keller" by Aimee Hess, "Amelia Earhart" by Susan Reyburn, "Eleanor Roosevelt" by Anjelina Michelle Keating and "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" by Linda Barrett Osborne."
- Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life - Barbara Haber, 11 August 2006 [46 minutes].
- American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, March 14, 2005.
- Making of America - Digital library of nineteenth century books and journal volumes is "particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology" and is a good place to look for primary sources. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections. The Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." You can browse by subject , author, and title. The Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900 "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can also browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. Examples full-texts in the collection include:
- Eminent women of the age being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation
- Woman and her wishes; an essay: inscribed to the Massachusetts constitutional convention by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- "Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work, three lectures delivered in Boston, November, 1859 by Caroline H. Dall
- An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony... by Susan B. Anthony
- Employments of women; a cyclopaedia of woman's work by Virginia Penny.
- "Making the America of Art": Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers - By Naomi Z. Sofer, Ohio State University Press, c2005. Complete text (287 pages) of the book.
- Mapping the World of Women's Information Services - Dutch database of women's information services available throughout the world ¤tly contains more than 350 women's information centres from over 140 countries and is updated weekly".
- Margaret Fuller - The full-text of Fuller's Summer on the Lakes (1843) is available at Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910, part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Project. "Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This is her introspective account of a trip to the Great Lakes region in 1843." Other texts by Fuller can be found in the University of Michigan's Making of America Project, a "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." Titles by Fuller include:
- Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1857) (there is also an 1869 edition)
- Literature and Art (1852)
- At Home and Abroad; or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe (1869)
- Life Without and Life Within: or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems (1869)
- Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869)
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman (1869). There is a Margaret Fuller Society (last updated in 2003) with Newsletter (1993-2001).
- Margaret Sanger
- Banned in Boston: The Silent Speech of Margaret Sanger (lecture) - Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood, Old South Meeting House, May 29, 2008.
- Beyond Choice: Issues of Reproductive Freedom (lecture) - Alexander Sanger, grandson, Margaret Sanger, First Parish Church, Cambridge, March 10, 2004.
- Margaret Sanger Papers Project - A project of the Department of History, New York University. Registration is required to gain full access to the site.
- Women Working, 1870-1930 - Harvard University Library Open Collections Program contains "more than 2,200 books and pamphlets, 1,000 photographs and 10,000 pages from manuscript collections." Works by and about Sanger include
Family limitation, by Margaret Sanger, New York: Review Pub. Co., [1914];
People of the State of New York, plaintiff-respondent against Margaret H. Sanger, defendant-appellant : defendant's brief in support of the motion, 1916;
People of the State of New York ex rel. Margaret H. Sanger, Ethel Byrne and Fannie Mindell, relators-appellants, against warden or keeper of detention pen of the Court of Special Sessions, Kings County, 1916;
The people of the State of New York, respondent, against Margaret H. Sanger, defendant-appellant : appellant's statement and points, 1916;
The case for birth control by Margaret Sanger, 1917;
Woman and the new race by Margaret Sanger, 1920;
The pivot of civilization by Margaret Sanger, 1922;
Laws concerning birth control in the United States by Margaret Sanger, 1929; and
What we stand for : principles and aims of the American Birth Control League, Inc, n.d. (Margaret Sanger was President of the League).
- Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Curated by Nancy M. Shawcross, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Mary Anne Sadlier Archive - Maintained by Liz Szabo at the University of Virginia. Sadlier (1820-1903) was an Irish-American immigrant and author of over sixty books. Site includes biographical and bibliographical material, a full-text novel and historical background.
- Mary Lyon on the Web - Information on Mary Lyon (1797-1849), founder of Mount Holyoke College and early advocate for women's education.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage Website - Includes Works by and about Gage, a Biographical Dictionary and a good collection of links to women's history resources on the Internet.
- Matrix: A Collection of Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities, 500-1500 - "Ongoing collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology, religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer technology. Our goal is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe."
- Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender - Coordinated by Margaret Schaus, a librarian at Haverford College, and compiled by a group of librarians and scholars, the MFI is a bibliographic database covering journal articles, essays, and book reviews on women, gender, and sexuality. It has over three thousand records for 1994-1998 publications that are searchable by author, title, subject heading, geographic area, century and article type.
- Medieval Women - McMaster University
- MentorNet - Subtitled the National Electronic Industrial Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science, this nonprofit organization pairs women studying science and engineering with with professional scientists and engineers working in industry.
- Model Editions Partnership - Purpose is "to explore ways of creating editions of historical documents which meet the standards scholars traditionally use in preparing printed editions." Includes Margaret Sanger Papers and Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
- National Archives and Records Administration Archival Information Locator - Locate records pertaining to the arrest and trial of Susan B. Anthony. On the Expert Search page, in the Enter Description Level Identifiers section at the bottom of the form, do a Series search for NDNYCRIM and limit the search to Only Descriptions Linked to Digital Copies. This will retrieve 10 documents, including an 18 page transcript of the hearing including examination of witnesses by the defense and prosecution atorneys, and Susan B. Anthony's testimony in her own defense.
- National Archives of Canada - Ottawa. A number of digital collections are available, among which is The Famous Five an online exhibition about the five Alberta women who contested, in the Supreme Court of Canada, the interpretation of the word "persons"which in 1927 did not include women and thus denied them access to the Senate.
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign; Library of Congress/American Memory.
- National Council of Jewish Women
- National First Ladies Library - Offers brief biographies and bibliographies. (Stark State College of Technology in Canton, Ohio.)
- National Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington, D.C., museum has a Library and Research Center with a Archives on Women Artists.
- National Museum of Women's History - Washington, DC. Includes online exhibition, Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage, includes 50 images of the woman's suffrage movement.
- National Organization For Women
- National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution site provides a
Collection and Research Records Search and an Expanded Person Search. There is an online exhibition on the Seneca Falls Convention: July 19-20, 1848.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress.
- National Women's Hall of Fame - Seneca Falls, New York. Highlights include
biographies of over 150 outstanding women in Women of the Hall, information on the
1998 Inductees, and
Our History.
- National Women's History Project
- National Women's Studies Association - With access to Table of Contents and selected articles from the NWSA Journal. Provides the full-text of Laura E. Nym Mayhall's article on Emmeline Pankhurst, Domesticating Emmeline: Representing the Suffragette, 1930-1993.
- New Jersey Women's History - Resource for students, teachers, and all interested people who want to know more about the history of New Jersey women. Offers
Topical Index,
Documents,
Images
Bibliography
Webliography and
Notable Facts.
- Nordic Institute for Women's Studies & Gender Research - Offers a collection of links and the Q Library: the Nordic Virtual Library of Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- Notable Women Ancestors - Suzanne "Sam" Behling's database has a complete alphabetical listing and is also browsable by category.
- Not for Ourselves Alone: the Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - Companion to the PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes airing November 7th and 8th. With links to historic ducuments and related resources.
- 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women - Women's online forums and lists were canvassed to select the best 20th century fiction by women. (Feminista!,, vol. 2, no. 3/4.)
- Only the Best for My Child: A Bibliography Of Children's Picture Books Featuring Powerful, Positive Female Characters - MaryHelen Lewis, Seattle, Washington
- Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics - Elisabeth Freeman & Susanne Hupfer, Ada Project, Yale University
- Pauline Johnson Archive - First Native poet to have her work published in Canada, Johnson was the daughter of a Mohawk Native-Canadian father and an English mother. She used the Mohawk name "Tekahionwake" and gave popular recitals of her poetry, comedy routines and plays from Halifax to Vancouver. Located in the Mills Memorial Archive of McMaster University, the archive contains an abundance of material including correspondence, photographs, postcards and manuscripts.
- Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 - Library of Congress site "portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works." (American Memory). Full-text titles include The story of a pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw, the autobiography of the President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland; Petticoat surgeon by Bertha Van Hoosen; and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, her life story and reminiscences by Belle McArthur Perry.
- Places Where Women Made History - A National Register of Historic Places itinerary.
- Power of Woe, Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present - Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia.
- Queen's Move: Women and Chess Through the Ages - An online exhibition of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) which has one of the largest collection of chess and draughts in the world.
- Radcliffe Quarterly
- Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over 4600 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Robin Flies Again: Letters Written by Women of Goucher College, Class of 1903 - "Members of the class of 1903 wrote a 'Round Robin' letter to each other for almost fifty years. The letters reproduced here were written between the years of 1919 and 1938. They document suffrage, war, the depression, family life and more."
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture - Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Offerings include Beyond Nancy Drew: Girls' Literature in the Sallie Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture , Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, Retrieving African American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Sources in the Special Collections Library, African-American Women, Civil War Women and the Bingham Center Newsletter.
- Salt Lake City Tribune - Utah newspaper is searchable for the last seven days and has articles on polygamy, including Polygamy: Former Wives Demand Action (July 28, 1998), 16-Year-Old Girl Testifies Of Beating (July 23, 1998), Utah Attorneys Key Figures in Polygamist Kingston Clan (July 19, 1998), Polygamy: Throughout its history, Colorado City has been home for those who believe in virtues of plural marriage (June 28, 1998). See also the Deseret News, the official LDS newspaper. which has a searchable, six month archives.
- Saving Spring: A new biography of an environmental pioneer - Robert B. Semple, Jr. reviews Linda Lear's Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature in the October 5, 1997 New York Times Book Review. Allows you to read the first chapter, and provides links to other reviews of Carson's books. (Free registration)
- SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas's manifesto, written in 1967, is an example of extreme radical feminist theory.
- Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale - Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Also has a collection of links to Other Nightingale sites.
- Senior Women Web - Politics, health, fitness, monetary issues, and lifestyles for women over 50. Edited by retired Time Magazine reporter Tam Gray.
- Sexpectations: Single White Females - Monash University Library Rare Books Exhibition catalogue.
- "She is More to be Pitied than Censured" - Women, Sexuality, and Murder in 19th Century America, exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, Brown University.
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- Sophia Smith Collection: Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College - "Internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history." "A Perennial Blessing": Celebrating Sophia Smith, commemorates Sophia Smith and her history-making bequest to establish a college for women. The Five College Archives Digital Access Project contains digitized archival materials related to the history of women's education at the Five College institutions (Smith, Mount Holyoke, UMass-Amherst, Amherst and Hampshire).
- Suffragists Oral History Project - University of California, Berkeley.
- Triptych A Digital Initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries - "Draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends." You can search within the Carrie Chapman Catt Collection of Suffrage Photographs, a collection of over 1,000 photogaphs in the Brym Mawr Library Special Collections. Use the Advanced Search option and limit you search to the Catt Collection. A search with the Catt Collection for portraits, for example, retrieves over 700 results.
- 25 Landmark Feminist Books of the 19th Century - By Madeline B. Stern and Paulette Rose, AB, November 26, 1990, p. 2097-2109. Many of these titles can be located in Google Books, the Online Books Page, Making of America (Michigan) and Making of America (Cornell). The first ten titles:
- Frances Wright. Views of Society and Manners in America. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1821.
- Lydia Maria Child. History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations. Boston: John Allen, 1835.
- [Sarah Moore Grimke] Letters of the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Women. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838.
- Margaret Fuller. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
- Samuel J. May. The Rights and Conditions of Women. Syracuse: Lathrop's Press, 1845.
- Lucretia Mott. Discourse on Women Delivered at the Assembly Buildings, December 17, 1849. Philadelphia: T B. Peterson, 1850.
- [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World by Elizabeth Wetherell. New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. 2 volumes.
- Stephen Pearl Andrews. Love, Marriage and Divorce and the Sovereignty of the Individual. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853.
- T. L. Nichols and Mary S. Gove Nichols. Marriage: Its History, Character and Results. Cincinnati: V. Nicholson [1854].
- Ann Stephens. Malaska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter. New York: Irwin P. Beadle & Co., 1860.
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: Texts by Women Writers.
- United States Department of Labor Women's Bureau
- Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement - 1995 exhibition at the University of Rochester Library.
- Victorian Women Writer's Project - Indiana University Libraries project to digitize works by British women writers of the 19th century. Texts include:
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (c1877), edited by Maria Weston Chapman (Martineau was one of the foremost English intellectuals of her day), Edith Nesbit's The Railway Children (1906) chronicling the adventures of the six Bastable children, and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883), a tragic novel of feminist protest.
- Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 - From the Bartleby Library.
- VOAHA: Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive - California State University, Long Beach. Subjects include American Indian Studies, Asian American History, Labor History, Long Beach Area History, Mexican American/Chicano, Musical Developments in Southern California, Southeast Asian Communities, and Women's History (Asian American Women's Movement; Chicana Feminists; Feminist Health Movement; Los Angeles Feminists; Suffragists; Reformers and Radicals; Professionals and Entrepreneurs; Rosie the Riveter Revisited; Welfare Mothers, Welfare Rights, Women's Lives, Women's Work 1900-1960). Some interviews were conducted under the auspices of the Feminist History Research Project. There are online audio files of interviews with the following women:
- Elizabeth Anderson (1892- ) - Interviewed by Allison Knoth.
- Mildred Baer
- Marie Baker
- Rose Bell
- Carmella Messina Billone
- Betty Jeanne Boggs
- Clella Juanita Bowman
- Rose Priola Falk Agnes Budilovsky
- Jesse Haver Butler (1886-1984)
- Toni Carabillo
- Freda Campbell
- Bernadette Carmier
- Victoria Casilles
- Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980)
- Sylvia Castillo (tape damaged?)
- Katherine Tolls Chamberlain
- Flora Chavez
- Marisela Chavez
- May Ying Chen
- Beatrice Morales Clifton
- Amalia Conray
- Victoria Cook
- Jeanne Cordova
- Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) - Interviewed on 10 October 1972 by Sherna Berger Gluck
- Elizabeth Cuddeback
- Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975)
- Genora (Johnson) Dollinger
- Alma Dotson
- Carol Downer
- Videll Drake
- Louise Emery (1897-1985)
- Ethel Erickson (1897-1985)
- Mildred Eusebio
- Rose Priola Falk
- Maria Fierro
- Bertha Foler
- Lilyan Frank
- Mern Freige
- Nellie Gibson (1897-1989)
- May Goldman
- Sherna Berger Gluck
- Anna Nieto Gomez
- Emma Goodman
- Eliza Harrison
- Rosemary Hays
- Fanny Christina Hill
- Margarite Hoffman
- Mary Holloway (1882-1985)
- Edith Holton
- Josephine Houston
- Vera Hunter
- Mildred Hutchinson (1894-2000)
- Miya Iwataki
- Barbara Kalish
- Sadie Kastleman (1887-1978)
- Ernestine Hara Kettler (1896-1978)
- Dora Stoller Keyser (1899-1983)
- Florence Kushner
- Yetta Land (1887-1986)
- Susan Laughlin
- Bessie Letwin
- Mildred Lightfoot
- Juanita Loveless
- Eva Lowe
- Mary Luna
- Grace McDonald
- Glad McLeod
- Kathleen MacNeil
- Margarita Salazar McSweyn
- Lillian March
- Crystal Marshall
- Belen Martinez Mason,
- Adele Hernandez Milligan
- Gertrude Millikan
- Ruth Mills
- Virginia Reid Moore
- Rose Echeverria Mulligan
- Bette Murphy
- Yolanda Nava
- Barbara Nestor (1884-1979)
- Charlcia Neuman
- Beatrice NeView (1894-1995)
- Consuelo Nieto
- Olive Nordquist
- Priscilla Oaks
- Kathleen O'Hare
- Isabell Orwin
- Mildred Owen (1903-1988)
- Della Pack (1897-1981)
- Zuma Palmer (1897-1991)
- Harriet Perry
- Wanda Phillips (1889-1978)
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979)
- Mary Polliard
- Lupe Purdy
- Zita Donegan Remley (1904-1985)
- Anita Veale Robbins (1897-1979)
- Joan Robins
- Marilyn Robinson
- Nancy (Dara) Robinson
- Genevieve Roesch
- Lorraine Rothman
- Dora Rosenzweig (1885-1984)
- Sarah Rozner
- Corinne Sanchez
- Mamie Santora
- Barbara Sargent (1887-1989)
- Laura Ellsworth Seiler (1891-1982)
- Ethel Bertolini (Shapiro)
- Alicia Shelit
- Lillian Sherman (1894-1983)
- Etta Simmons
- Rose Singleton
- Lottie Lee Spharler
- Lottie (Kaplan) Spitzer
- Addie Stangeland
- Olive Stone (1897-1977)
- Helen Studer
- Marye Stumph (1909-1994)
- Minnie Roth Tenebaum
- Sylvie Thygeson (1868-1975)
- Johnnie Tillmon
- Charlotte Stern (Todes) (1897-1996)
- Eva Marshall Totah (1895-1990)
- Bessie Udin
- Vi (Violet) Verreaux
- Margaret White
- Evelyn Widdicombe
- Evelyn Yoshimura
- Sofia Zamora
- Voices From the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color - University of Minnesota.
- Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." With Online Programs Topical Index. Among the speakers are Jill Ker Conway on The Art of Autobiography and Cokie Roberts on our Founding Mothers.
- Votes for Women Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - Library of Congress collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
- Wellesley Centers for Women
- William L. Clements Library - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "The Clements Library collects primary source materials in all formats relating to the history of America prior to the mid-twentieth century. The holdings are particularly strong in the intellectual, cultural, and military history of the late colonial period, the Early Republic, and the 19th century..." There is a Women in History: Guide to Manuscript Collections which provides extensive background notes to the material.
- WGBH Forum Network - Archived lectures include:
- Banned in Boston: The Silent Speech of Margaret Sanger - Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood, Old South Meeting House, May 29, 2008.
- Beyond Choice: Issues of Reproductive Freedom - Alexander Sanger, grandson, Margaret Sanger, First Parish Church, Cambridge, March 10, 2004.
- Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War - Nina Silber, Egan Center, Northeastern University, October 28, 2005.
- Women and Gender Project - University of Texas, San Antonio. Has links to Other Women's Collections.
- Women, Enterprise and Society - A guide to resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Women in Congress
- Women in History: Guide to Manuscript Collections - Clements Library, University of Michigan
- Women in History - "Non-profit corporation dedicated to the education of all people through the dramatic re-creation of lives of notable women in U.S. history."
- Women in Literature and Life Assembly (WILLA) - National Council of Teachers of English. Full-text articles and reviews.
- Women in Math Project - Extensive collection of biographies on women mathematicians, as well as bibliographies, statistics, information on associations and conferences and links to other resources. Project directed by Marie Vitulli, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon.
- Women in the Middle East - Middle East and Islamic Studies Department, Columbia University Libraries.
- Women Nobel Laureates
- Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930 - "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication, and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." (Christopher Reynolds, Department of Music, University of California, Davis.)
- Women: the Shadow Story of the Millennium - The second of six special Millennium issues from the New York Times.
- Women Working, 1870-1930 - Harvard University Library collection " focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages."
- Women's Bureau - U. S. Department of Labor
- Women's Business Ownership - Small Business Administration
- Women's History - International Institute of Social History (IISH). Includes ViVa: A Current Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals.
- Women's Human Rights Resources Programme (WHRR) - "Collects, organizes and disseminates information on women's human rights law to facilitate research, teaching and cooperation.." Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto. There is a Women's Human Rights Resources Database.
- Women's Legal History Biography Project - Stanford Law School site features biographies of pioneering women lawyers.
- Women's Library - London Guildhall University. "Cultural centre housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK."
- Women's Manuscript Collections Project - University of Louisville "collections concern the lives and careers of attorney Laura Miller Derry, poet Diane di Prima, poet Hortense Flexner, pediatrician and West Louisville neighborhood activist Grace M. James, civil rights activist and Louisville alderman Lois Morris, constitutional historian and women's rights advocate Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Louisville radio columnist and ballet co-founder Louise Weiller, and circuit court judge Rebecca Westerfield."
- Women's Studies Online Resources - Joan Korenman.
- Women's Studies Database - University of Maryland.
- Women's Rights National Historical Park - National Park Service site provides historical background on the first Women's Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 & 20, 1848.
- Women's Studies: A Guide to the Collections of The New York Public Library
- Women's Studies: Core Books - This database is a "project of the Association of College & Research Libraries — Women's Studies Section. Book titles currently in print are selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area. The project assists Women's Studies librarians and collection development librarians in building Women's Studies collections and can also serve as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available course readings...Each list maintainer also selects the titles that are considered "essential" in that subject area. The Core Books database is updated annually in February. Titles no longer in print are dropped for each subject and newly published titles are added."
- Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 - Part of the University of Minnesota's Women's Studies Digitization Project.
- Worcester Women's History Project - Site includes online archive, information about the 1850 convention and "Rediscovered Voices" highlighting the work of mid-nineteenth-centry women.
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries."
- WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites - Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries.