History and Area Studies
International Guides
- Archival Sites for Women's Studies
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Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
- KVINNSAM
- KVINNSAM is the largest Nordic database on interdisciplinary Swedish and foreign references on women, men and gender science. It includes books, journals, journal articles, book chapters, scholarly papers, booklets and research reports from 1984 to the present. It is produced by the Women's History Collections Department at Gothenburg University Library.
- ViVa
- An online bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals from the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World
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Offers a selection of speeches and other writing by women from a variety of fields from literature to public affairs.
Classics
- Diotima: Materials for the study of women and gender in the Classical world
- Bibliography of Women in the Ancient Near East
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A bibliography of 500 entries from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
Byzantine
- Bibliography of Women in Byzantium
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A bibligraphy of primary and secondary materials in English compiled by Thalia Gouma-Peterson.
Medieval
- Bibliography of works by and about women writers of the Middle Ages
- From the Robbins Library of the University of Rochester.
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
- Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Nineteenth Century
- Gender Matters portion of the Victorian Web
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with subsections on women, economics, Victorianism, science, visual arts, religion & philosophy, and gender.
United States
- American Women's History: A Research Guide
- An excellent resource, combining print & online tools.
- A Geographic Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections
- An excellent, state-by-state guide to archives, libraries and other repositories of primary source material.
- Digital Scriptorium of the Duke University Special Collections
- This collection provides digitized selectioins of archival material, including scanned texts and pages from Civil War women, African-American women, and Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
- Feminist Chronicles
- A chronology from 1953 (when Second Sex was published in the United States) to the present. From the Feminist Majority Foundation.
- Lesbian History Project
- Developed to provide access to lesbian history on the Internet and to support efforts to gather, record, publicize and preserve work on lesbian history in any time period or geographic area. Special projects: The Lesbians of Color Web Site and Southern California Lesbian History.
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Selected material from the Library of Congress. Includes "Votes For Women": Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920, A searchable collection of photographs and prints.
- National Women's History Project
- Founded in 1980 to promote women's history. Initiated Women's History Month, and serves as a clearinghouse for women's history information.
- Online Resources for African American Women and Womanist Studies
- Places Where Women Made History : A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
- From the National Park Service. Features historic places in Massachusetts and New York and introduces "...anyone interested in American history to the wide range of historic places associated with the many varied aspects of women's history. The itinerary highlights 74 historic properties... includes interactive maps, descriptions of each place's significance in women's history, photographs, information on public accessibility, essays on women's achievements in American history, and links to other pertinent Web sites."
- Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
- The Sixties Project
- Collecting personal narratives, bibliographies, catalogs of books, recordings, and films, and primary documents
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
- This site is "intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Each project poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the question.
- Women in America: 1820-1842
- Travel accounts by European visitors from the University of Virginia. Access is by author and topic.
- Women Working, 1870-1930
- "Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. When completed, the collection will contain more than 2,200 books and pamphlets, 1,000 photographs and 10,000 pages from manuscript collections." (--site description)
- Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930
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Women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. From the University of Minnesota.
Canada
- Celebrating Women's Achievements
- Twenty-one biographies maintained by the National Library of Canada.
- Canadian Women's History: A Selective Bibliography
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Asia
- A Guide to Writings By or About Women in Pre-Independent India
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From the University of Minnesota Ames Library of South Asia. A searchable bibliography of writings from 1743 to 1947, with selective illustrations from cited works.
Middle East
- Women in the Middle East. Compiled by Frank Unlandherm, the Middle East Bibliographer at Columbia.
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Europe
- NOISE
- Network of Interdisciplinary Women Studies in Europe, the largest European Educational Exchange Programme in Women's Studies in Europe.
- Women's Studies EuroMapXS
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Offers "detailed information about Women's Studies and Equal Opportunities, and we guide you through the interesting Women's Studies sites on the Internet." Concentrates on Europe.
Austria
- FEMALE-L Homepage
- Ariadne
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Ariadne is an extraordinary resource for Austrian women's studies. It contains the Datenbank ARIADNE, a database of articles, essays in books dealing with women either published in Austria, or on Austrian topics. The database was begun in 1992, and currently contains 13,000 records. The site also includes tables of contents from 10 early Austrian feminist journals, ranging in date from Social-politische Frauen-Zeitung (1875-1876) to Zeitschrift für Frauen-Stimmrecht (1911-1918).
Denmark
- KVINFO (Danish Centre for Information on Women and Gender)
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Finland
- Femina Borealis: Women and Development in the North
- Equality and the Gender Perspective in Working Life
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A research project based at the University of Tampere.
Germany
- Women in German Homepage
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Great Britain
- The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920
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Includes biographies, excerpts from primary sources, cartoons, photographs and other visual material, and a brief bibliography.
Italy
- Server Donne
- Gopher Donne
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Netherlands
- Center for Women's Studies, University of Nijmegen
- International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement
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Sweden and Scandinavia
- KVINNSAM
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KVINNSAM is the largest Nordic database on interdisciplinary Swedish and foreign references on women, men and gender science. It includes books, journals, journal articles, book chapters, scholarly papers, booklets and research reports from 1984 to the present. It is produced by the Women's History Collections Department at Gothenburg University Library.
Latin America
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
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The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. The print edition is available in Butler Reference Department. The online version includes the full 59 volumes of the handbook, from 1935 to the present. It can be searched by subject, author, title, and keyword.
Russia
- Russian Feminism Resources
- Links to information (there are English links and Russian links) about a variety of topics affecting women's lives in Russia.
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