Feminist and Gender Studies

Includes the experiences of approximately 500 women, as written in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Primary source material for research in history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective

Feminae indexes nearly 500 journals as well as many essay collections devoted in large part to topics dealing with women, sexuality, or gender in the Medieval period.

An important source in the study of women's history

Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and to Canada. Includes more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories and several thousand pages of oral history interviews from Ellis Island.

Digital facsimiles of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

History of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, with full-text documents as well as book, film and website reviews and teaching tools.

Personal writings of women from 18th to 20th centuries.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex and the Family offers students and researchers insights into the shifting values and behaviours of Americans over time. This collection brings together the instructional and etiquette literature that defined the standards of conduct for Americans and includes fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, guides, pamphlets and society publications.

Digitized collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Middle ages to the 20th century)