Women's History: Academic Resources

Collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other topical areas.

GenderWatch indexes over 200 scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and ebooks on the evolution of gender roles as they affect men and women. Includes some full-text.

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision features archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe. Content includes evolution of feminism, women’s political activism, and female-authored literature and writings. Focusing on female perspectives, Gale’s Women’s Studies Archive provides archival source material to support research in Women’s History, Gender Studies and Social History.

Bibliographic database covering the core disciplines in women's studies and feminist research. It supports many fields of study, including sociology, history, international relations, humanities and more.

Intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The database contains 75,000 pages of additional primary source materials related to the women's movement in the United States.