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Women + Gender Studies

This guide will lead you to a variety of resources in Women's StudiesWomen's Studies

Digitized Collections

HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
A full-text searchable collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published from 1850 to 1950.
NYPL digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Open Collections Program: Women Working, 1800 -1930
Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections.

Additional Sources

Femina
search engine of "sites for, by and about women"
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's Hisotry (IISH)
"current bibliography of women's and gender history in scholarly journals"
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites --

NYPL Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
Shields Library, U.C. Davis

Center for Women's Global Leadership

Portals for Social Awareness & Activism:

NARAL - Pro-Choice America

Gateway Websites to Women and Gender Topics and Issues