Women's Studies: Internet Resources

This exhibition commemorates the history of the struggle for full participation of women at City College, highlights contributions that City College women have made to the College, and celebrates the excellence of City women's achievements.

The women featured in this exhibit were chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library of Congress. Like their colleagues, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 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 and images.

'The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement.'

This digital collection of photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters documents the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century. The collection, ca. 1924-1970, is an outgrowth of The African-American Women in Iowa Project, a collaboration between the Iowa Women's Archives and the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa.

Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.

Its mission is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions.

This list includes women astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, natural philosophers, inventors, writers and many others.

Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.

Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises

Women’s History at AFSCME
A Part of History: Women in Unions

A bibliography of girls' literature in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis

A project sponsored by Human Rights Watch, 'an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.'

Learn about women's history by getting to know the women who made it happen.

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.

Contemporary American feminist issues and activist resources; sponsored by women-led businesses and organizations.

HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals.

Published quarterly by Jewish Women International as a resource for all Jewish women, regardless of age, geography, or affiliation; bringing the issues they care about to center stage.

The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library are one of the most important resource centers for Women's Studies in the United States. The collections consist of vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship.

Gateway to academic resources on Women's Studies, maintained at the University of Wisconsin.

An academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet by the University of Toronto, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism.

Features female performers active in the underground and independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. It is by no means comprehensive and in many ways totally subjective.