Sex and Empire: Major Primary Source Databases

Includes:
-Records of Planned Parenthood
-Rare Titles Related to Women from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922
-Records of Grassroots Feminist Movements
-European Women's Periodicals

Massive collection of sources generated by the community. Includes newspapers, magazines, ephemera,oral histories. International in scope. Includes:
-Records of ACT-UP NYC and LA
-Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays Records
-Sexology Books from the New York Academy of Medicine
-Early Literature from Statistics to Erotica from the Kinsey Institute
-Lesbian Herstory Archive
-International Periodicals

Focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class through a transnational perspective. Includes over 100 Women's periodicals, including housekeeping, religious, suffrage and labor magazines.

Click on the Women's Studies option. Includes:
-Margaret Sanger papers, including her own public and private correspondence as well as a historic trove of documents related to birth control, women's rights, suffrage, feminism, reform and social work, arts, and middle-class family life.
-Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, including papers relating to suffrage, equal rights, health and related issues from the Women's Action Alliance, League of Women Voters, and National Women's Party.
-Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
-Women at Work During World War II

Discover five centuries of advice literature from the mid-15th to early 20th century. Research the ideals of social conduct, power distribution within the family, consumption and leisure, education of men and women and gendered perceptions of the body to analyse and challenge the changing views and ideas surrounding traditional gender roles.

Resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Explore records from men’s and women’s organisations, advice literature and etiquette books to reveal developing gender roles and relations. Gain an insight into changing societal expectations about gender roles through personal diaries and correspondence and explore the life and careers of key figures and pioneers in gender history.

This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors throughout the twentieth century. Investigate the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading American sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and the public consciousness.

Core electronic collection of books and journals, including the Journal of Social Hygiene, American Food Journal, Journal of Home Economics, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar.

"... an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes documents ranging from letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, letters and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community..."

Searches several databases on the left as well as advertising and cultural history.

Searches several databases on the left as well as legal resources (e.g., ACLU, Supreme Court cases) and political extremism.