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Resources in the History of Gender and Women, 1750 to the Present

This guide is designed to help students find materials for the assignments in this course. It contains both library resources and Internet resources.  For general information on researching gender, see the Auraria Library Subject Guides for Women's Studies and for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. While these sites are not addressed specifically to historical themes, there's lots of good stuff there!

ARTICLES BOOKS
PRIMARY SOURCES INTERNET

Research that  you do in this class must be documented in your papers.  Use the Chicago Manual of Style (or Chicago Style) to find out how to use footnotes or endnotes in a history paper.  If you have questions about documentation, ask me.

For ways to think about searching for research materials, see A Guide to Search Strategies.

ARTICLES IN THE HISTORY OF GENDER AND WOMEN

The articles you use as secondary sources in this class must be from peer-reviewed, academic journals.  The following are examples of journals that deal specifically with the history of gender and women (closest locations where available in parentheses):

The following are examples of journals that have a number of articles addressing historical themes about gender:

Most other academic history journals contain articles on women and gender.  

Auraria Library subscribes to Project Muse, which contains over 100 full-text arts and humanities journals online.

There are several article indexes to which Auraria subscribes that have references to articles in the history of gender.  Your best bets are

If you find an article that is in a journal our library doesn't carry, you can order that article at the interlibrary loan desk in Auraria Library, or by using Web Zap.

Articles in the history of women and gender can also be found in books of edited collections.  I have several collections of edited essays in my office that you can browse.   You can also find books through searching Skyline.

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BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF GENDER AND WOMEN

By searching Skyline, you will find  a number of books pertaining to the history of women and gender.  You can do a very broad keyword search (e.g. women history Europe, or gender history Europe), but you will get a lot of responses. Limited keyword searches will be more useful to you (e.g. women health history England; or employment women history France; and other things along those lines).  If you find a book that our library doesn't hold or that is checked out, you can order the book through Prospector (a consortium of regional libraries searchable through our library resources). You can broaden your search for books significantly by searching Prospector at the outset.  To do the broadest search possible, go to WorldCat, which contains titles of books in libraries throughout the world.  If you find a book you want through WorldCat, you can order it through Interlibrary Loan or  Web Zap.  

You are welcome to browse through my collection of books.

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PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF GENDER AND WOMEN

Primary sources are documents, images, artifacts, etc. that are produced during the time you are studying. For example, if you are interested in women's health in the nineteenth century, an article on female insanity written in 1872 would qualify as a primary source; an article written in 1972 about female insanity in 1872 would not qualify -- that's a secondary source.

*Auraria has an excellent MICROFILM COLLECTION of primary sources:
The History of Women (over 900 reels!), which is indexed.*

*Another great MICROFILM COLLECTION is at Boulder: Women and Victorian values, 1837-1910: advice books, manuals and journals for women (60 reels).*

The following are some PUBLISHED COLLECTIONS of primary documents (in no particular order):

Carol Bauer and Lawrence Ritt, eds. Free and Ennobled: Source Readings in the Development of Victorian Feminism (New York: Pergamon Press, 1979).  HQ1596 F73 1979

Mineke Bosch wtih Annemarie Kloosterman, eds. Politics and Friendship: Letters from the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1902-1942 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990). JN5947 L5413 1990

Sheila Jeffreys, ed. The Sexuality Debates (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987). HQ18 G7 S476 1987

Pat Jalland and John Hooper, eds. Women from Birth to Death: the Female Life Cycle in Britain, 1830-1914 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1986).  HQ1593 W56 1986

Katharina Rowold, ed. Gender and Science: Late Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Female Mind and Body (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1996). [Prospector HQ1593 .G45 1996]

George Klosko and Margaret G. Klosko, eds. The Struggle for Women's Rights: Theoretical and Historical Sources (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999). JK1896 S85 1999

Susan Groag Bell and Karen Offen, eds. Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983). Volumes 1 and 2. HQ1588 W645 1983

Chris White, ed. Nineteenth Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook (New York: Routledge, 1999). [Prospector PR1111 H57 L68 1999]

Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds. Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). HQ60 S4965 1998

Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen, eds. Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981). [Prospector HQ1596 .V53]

Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, ed. Speeches and Trials of the Militant Suffragettes: The Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1918 (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999). JN979 .S67 1999

Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, eds. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected Documents (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979). HQ1616 W65

Jane Lewis, ed. Before the Vote was Won: Arguments for and Against Women's Suffrage (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987). JN979 B44 1987

Yvonne Klein, ed. Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars (New York: New York University Press, 1997). D640 A2 B56277 1997

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INTERNET SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF GENDER AND WOMEN

For information about documenting Internet sources in your papers, see Citation Styles: Online!. 

The following Internet sites may be useful to you when looking for topics, articles, and secondary and primary sources for your research papers.  This is only a small sampling of what is available on the Internet.

SOME BIG SITES:

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
A great site to search for articles!

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
A wonderful site with links to many primary sources in the history of women and gender.

People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History
Part of the Internet History Sourcebook, this site has links to primary sources dealing specifically with gay and lesbian history.

Women's History Resources: Sites on Women Outside the U.S.
This site has links to a variety of primary and secondary sources dealing with European women's history.

WWWomen
An very large alphabetical listing of sites on global women's history; you'd need to search through to find European-specific links.

H-Women Bibliographies
H-Women is a discussion group for people interested in women's history.  This site has links to bibliographies in many areas of the history of women and gender. 

AN EXAMPLE OF A SUBJECT-SPECIFIC SITE:

The Emancipation of Women, 1700-1920
Articles on various aspects of the British women's movement with some images and primary sources.

This site was last updated August, 2002. 
Questions? Contact Marjorie Levine-Clark, mlevine@carbon.cudenver.edu