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| Includes books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
| | Includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, much of it previously unpublished. Drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It includes some 300 biographies to enhance the use of the database.
| | From the Brown University Women Writers Project; an electronic collection of early women's writing, covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
| | The Women Writers collection includes not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English language, such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Conway, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and more.
| | Concentrates on "second-wave" feminist thory, since the 1960's. Primarily English language, but also covers French feminist theory. Alphabetical listings of articles on many interdisciplinary topics, including: film theory, gender, queer theory, epistomology of the body, feminist history, black and chicana feminism, feminist theology. Also includes mini-biographies of feminists.
| | A comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS.
| | Currently includes 74 document projects with 2,200 documents, more than 29,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
| | The immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.
| | | Complete list of e-texts available through the library. |
Women's Studies Digitization Project: selected travel writings by women in the period 1830-1930 Women's Studies Section of ACRL: Texts online (literary, critical, or biographical)
Online Resources for Medieval Studies: Women's Studies
WWW Subject Catalog: Women's Studies and Feminism. Access to historical documents, research, publications, reports, etc. relevant to women's studies scholarship.
Early Modern French Women Writers
Gender Issues: e-books
HEARTH: Home economics archive. Books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines, 1850 - 1950
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1960's - 1970's
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A "dynamic reference work", maintained and updated by an editorial board. Many articles related to gender and feminism
Project Gutenberg
The granddaddy of electronic texts on the Internet. Many works by and about womens are to be found among the mostly English texts, including some of the more obscure European texts. OAIster:
A searchable catalog of publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. Broad subject coverage.
The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web. Search by Library of Congress call number (HQ, for example)
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