LibGuides: History: Primary Sources: Women's History

Women

Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Gale)
A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Sources from the U.S. and U.K., including periodicals, governmental and non-governmental reports and policy studies, ACT UP records, Gay Activists Alliance records, and more.
Discovering American Women's History Online
List of digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.
Gay Is Good - Digital collections in LGBTQ U.S. History
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Godey's Lady's Book
Coverage: 1830-1898
Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

Guide to Online Primary Sources: Sexuality
UC San Diego library's guide.
Herland Archives (Univ. of Central Oklahoma)
A collection of various newsletters and newspapers that were once received by the Herland Sister Resources, a local womanist organization.
Independent Voices: Feminist (JSTOR Reveal)
Alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Coverage: 1675-1950
This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

Oklahoma Women and the Dust Bowl (Oklahoma State Univ.)
Interviews with women who lived through the Dust Bowl.

Women & Social Movements in the United States
Coverage: 1600-2000
This database provides access to historical analysis and documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's history. Resources include book, film, and website reviews, archival documents, and teaching tools.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Women's Magazine Archive
Coverage: 1846-2005
Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, education, psychology and health, politics, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies' Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman's Day (1937 to 2005), and Women's International Network News (1975 to 2003).
Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

History: Primary Sources

Women

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