Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies


Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Parts I and IV)

This collection focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century and is international in scope. Part I, LGBT History and Culture Since 1940 includes materials related to the gay rights movement, activism, HIV/AIDS and other issues affecting LGBT communities. Part IV, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, focuses on Africa and Australia with inclusion of materials from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) and Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives-periodical collection.

Black Women Writers

This resource contains literature and essays related to feminism by black women writers from the United States, Caribbean, and over 20 African countries.

GenderWatch

Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's, gender and GLBT issues. Contains materials dating back to 1970. Incorporates the publication Women "R".

Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs

The collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen in the late 1800s. This resource delivers images on the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights as they appeared in the original printed works.  It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages.

Independent Voices

This collection chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of independent alternative presses. Among the broad interest groups covered are American youth. Feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, and members of the LGBT communities.

LGBTQ+ Source

LGBTQ+ Source contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.

Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820

Resources document women’s experiences in the conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality since 1820. Material covers the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

Women and social movements in the United States

Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. This full-text resource also provides learning modules in the form of document projects, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement.

Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South

Document archive of feminist activism related to development efforts of women in the Global South and their allies working to balance economic growth and social improvement while navigating equity and fairer allocation of resources. Includes accompanying essays by scholars in the field that outline and critique shifts in approaches to development, including that of a gendered “post-development” perspective. Contains both English and Spanish language materials.