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Special Topics
Artists | Aviation & Space | Jewish Women | Labour History | Lesbian Women | Media | Medicine & Nursing | Men, Masculinity | Migration, Ethnic Relations, Exile | Military | Music | Science & Engineering | Sexuality | Single Women | Theory and Philosophy | Witchcraft | Women's Rights & Suffrage | Writers
Artists
- Alis Guggenheim Swiss Jewish communist sculptor and painter (1896-1958).
- Australian Women's Art Register An archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period. The Register is located at the Richmond (formerly Carringbush) Library in Melbourne.
- Beyond the Picket Fence Australian women's art in the National Library of Australia. Web version of an exhibition which was held from 8th March to 4th June 1995. Many reproductions - in two formats, with explanatory texts - of drawings, paintings, prints and photographs from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative The CWAHI aims to bring scholars together to research art made by women in Canada prior to 1967. The website provides information about CWAHI activities and conferences, their Documentation Centre, links to the Historical Canadian Women Artists Bio-bibliographic Database and other resources.
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Painter (1755-1842)
- Emily Carr (1871-1945) Web site devoted to the life and works of Canadian artist Emily Carr; from the Vancouver Art Gallery. It uses the Macromedia Flash Player, but An alternative non-Flash, non-Javascript version is also available.
- Identity by design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses Online exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian
- Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and natural historian (1647-1717) who painted the flora and fauna of Surinam. This anonymous website contains biographical information in German and English, and images of illustrations from the books she published. See also Women and Nature: Maria Sibylla Merian, Special Collections, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Mary Cassatt. Modern Woman Online exhibition of works by the American Impressionist painter Cassatt (1844-1926), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Mary Reynolds Collection--Art Institute of Chicago Site devoted to Mary Reynolds (1891-1950) and her collection of book bindings, rare books, journals, and other ephemera located in Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
- On Artemisia Gentileschi Modest web resource put together in response to the movie Artemisia, directed by Agnes Merlet. It contains a reprint of an evaluation of the problems written in part by Mary Garrard, and some links to Web sites on the movie, on Artemisia Gentileschi, and on women artists active before 1900.
- The Chairman Smiles Online exhibition includes posters designed by women: Soviet designers Vera Adamnova Gitsevich, Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina and A. Kuznetsova, and Cuban designers Eufemia Alvarez and Elena Serrano.
- WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution This first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art focuses on the crucial period 1965–80. The WACKsite, its 'community driven' componen, will remain online.
- Women Artists Self-portraits and representations of womanhood by women artists from
the medieval period to the present. A companion site deals with women
artists of the 20th century. By Patricia Lin, at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
- Women Artists Links to images of 850 women artists and works of art, from all historical periods. At the Artcyclopedia website.
- Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women's visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
Aviation & Space Jewish Women Labour History
- AFSCME LaborLinks: Women's Labor History The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has posted on their Website a directory of websites devoted to - mainly American - women's labor history. This includes a number of sites on famous women agitators and labor advocates including Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League), Florence Kelley (who agitated for reform of the women's sweatshops of Chicago), Jane Addams, Mother Jones, and others. Historical sites dedicated to key periods in women's labor history are also listed as well as a section of general women's labor history links.
- Annotated Bibliography on Women's Hats
and the Millinery Trade 1840-1940 by Christina Bates; English and American titles; at Civilization.ca, a Canadian site.
- Berneri - Marie Louise Berneri 1918-1949 Online article from LibCom
- Bibliography on the Garment Industry Entrepreneurship in the garment industry - particularly in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975 - was a crucial element not only in the history of New York City's economy (and the U.S. economy), but also in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side.
A bibliography, primarily intended for use by business historians interested in pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now available, compiled by Shirley Idelson. It includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, labor, and gender.
- Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army Cantinières and vivandières were women who served as official auxiliary personnel to French (and other) army combat units from early modern times until about the time of World War One. Their official task was to sell food and drink to the soldiers of their regiment to supplement the always inadequate army rations. On this site Thomas Cardoza provides information about cantinières and vivandières focusing specifically on cantinières and vivandières of the French army, but also on cantinières and vivandières from other countries and cantinières serving such non-military entities as the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters).
- Clara Collet 1860-1948 Collet's relations with Karl Marx, novelist George Gissing and others, and her work for Charles Booth, collecting statistics in the East End of London for his work Life and Labour; from the Victorian Web.
- Clara Zetkin Brief biography of this Marxist writer (1857-1933) and a few texts on socialism and the emancipation of women. From the Marxist Internet Archive.
- Frauen machen Geschichte: Frauenakademie des Renner-Institut Online course materials on the history of women's rights and social democracy in Austria; compiled by Angelika Zach.
- Frauen tragen die eine Hälfte des Himmels Online publications and documents on German gender politics and the women's movement, at the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website.
- From Erosion Control to Food Crisis Management - Changing gender divisions of labor in a Philippine upland village By Babette P. Resurreccion (2000, CLARA Working Paper, PDF) Downloadable from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series, 2000.
- Gender & Work Database A searchable database ("library") of over 2000 citations of, or links to journal articles, books, sections of bookspapers, and grey literature. At York University, Canada.
- Gender Issues in Contemporary Industrialization An annotated bibliography by Diane Elson and Caroline Wright (Winword 6 file)
- Gender Studies in Agriculture Searchable database. AGRALIN, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands.
- Girls fight for a living Online exhibition. Photographs with descriptions of women in several occupations: industrial work, journalism, the arts, the military, social reform work, and jobs they took over from the men who were fighting in World War II, including Baseball. From the University of Louisville Special Collections: Rare Books.
- Goldman - A Dozen Pictures of Emma Goldman In 1938 Emma Goldman deposited her archive at the International Institute of Social History. A dozen portraits of Goldman, originating from her archive as well as other anarchist collections at the IISH, can be viewed.
- Goldman - Emma Goldman Online exhibition at the Jewish Women's Archive Website.
- Goldman - Emma Goldman From The American Experience, PBS. Film description, program transcript, access to some primary sources, a list of books, articles, and Web sites, a timeline, biographies of contemporaries, teacher's guide and more
- Goldman - Emma Goldman Online Exhibition At the University of California at Berkeley: a supplement to the Emma Goldman Papers Project
- Goldman - Emma Goldman Papers Project Biographical and bibliographical data, finding aids, online exhibition and sample documents relating to the Russian-American anarchist; at the University of California at Berkeley.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Illinois Labor History Society Bibliography: Women's Labor History A small list of books; see also the list of Labor History Articles, http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/articles.htm for more women trade unionists.
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Kheel Center Labor Photos
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives' collections contain about 350,000 images that document labor history in the 20th century. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU photographs (1885-1985), are now searchable at the Kheel Center website.
- Maitron. Site d'histoire sociale Le Maitron is a French social history website named after Jean Maitron, initiator of the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français. The section Les dictionnaires biographiques contains complete articles from the Maitron on George Sand, Flora Tristan and Paule Mink. The Histoire sociale: textes et images section has documents related to child and young girls' labour, and women in the teachers' trade union organizations.
- Marxists Internet Archive This large collection includes texts by and biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, Raya Dunayevskaya, Alexandra Kollontai, Eleanor Marx, Emma Goldman, Helen Keller, and others. A separate section of the site is devoted to Women and Marxism, with texts by forty different authors on women's issues; also presented are works of fiction and poetry, and links to sources for the history of women's suffrage, women and labour history and women and the Spanish Civil War.
- Memory Hole Website devoted to individualist anarchism, currently hosted on the 'Pierre J. Proudhon Memorial Computer'. Includes an index to Benjamin Tucker's Liberty (see under 'Individualist Anarchism') and a page devoted to Anarchism and Feminism, both by Wendy McElroy.
- Michel - Louise Michel A selection of papers and pictures documenting the life of this remarkable woman: communarde, determined revolutionary, and romantic writer.
- Organizaciones de mujeres An overview of the collection of women's political and trade union organizations in the Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party, at the website of the Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM).
- Parsons - Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) Activist who played a crucial role in the worker's movements in Chicago. She helped found the International Working People's Association (IWPA), an anarchist-influenced labor organization that promoted revolutionary direct action towards a stateless and cooperative society and insisted on the equality of people of color and women. A small biography by by Joe Lowndes.
- Parsons - Lucy Parsons Archive Biographical and bibliographical information from the Anarchy Archives.
- Race, Gender, Class Bibliography "The first, unique bibliography which contains items ONLY if they emphasize the three dimensions of race, gender, and class in their discourse and analysis", compiled by Jean Ait Amber Belkhir, and published on the website of the American Sociological Association.
- Sources for Women's and Gender History in IALHI-Member Institutions Links to guides and other descriptions of source materials related to women's and gender history in archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement.
- Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History A finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
- Tanaka Sigeto's Homepage at Osaka University. Electronic papers on changes in the sexual division of labour in Japan.
- The Economic Position of Women in Asia By Xin Meng (1998, CLARA Working Paper, PDF). Downloadable from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series.
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 1911 Online exhibition presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!). Many of the Triangle factory workers were women.
- Tobacco Bag Stringing in North Carolina and Virginia This website presents images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
- U.S. Department Of Labor - Women's Bureau Home Page This site also contains online special reports and statistics.
- US Women & Labor: Links to Internet Resources Resources to track down information on U.S. women and labour via the World Wide Web. Listed here alphabetically are links to major libraries and archives, government offices, unions, and other organizations, informational sites on women's history and labour history, and finding guides for the web. From the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
- Vie quotidienne et Mémoire collective en Pays horloger An oral history study of the Swiss watchmaking industry by Laurence Court (1995). Of the thirteen persons interviewed, seven are women.
- Winning Equal Pay: the value of women's work A partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress to record the long campaign to achieve equal pay for women. This interactive website will show filmed interviews with women who fought for equal pay, digitised images and documents, plus contributions from historians and other experts.
- Women and Social Movements This is the editorial website for 'Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000' (WASM). It offers access to selected materials on WASM and guidelines for prospective contributors. About a fourth of the projects on Women and Social Movements remain freely available. The site also has a Teachers Corner, and links to related projects.
- Women in the U.S. Postal System An online exhibit created by the National Postal Museum that takes a close look at the role that women have played in the United States Post Office.
- Women Working in the United States, 1800-1930 This site provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Featuring ca. 500,000 pages and images documenting women's roles in the U.S. economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- Women's Work in the Long 19th Century Resources for students and teachers interested in studying women's work in the United States, 1780-1920. Syllabus, course materials, and a student-produced list of external links at Kennesaw State University, GA.
- Women's Work: Gender and Labour Relations in Malaysia by Amarjit Kaur. Downloadable PDF file from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series.
- Working Class Movement Library Salford, England. The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the
suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist
movement of the 1970s.
- Working Lives Short biographies of Rhoda Stuart and ten other Australian women labour activists. Part of a website promoting innovative research into the role of the individual in labour and social history.
Lesbian Women
- 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation Online exhibit of The New York Public Library on the year of gay liberation; with extensive information on the LGBT collections, programs, and expertise that The Library has to offer.
- Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Established in 1978, the primary goal of the Archives is to recover and preserve any materials that record the lives and experience of Lesbians and Gay men in Australia. The ALGA collection is the biggest repository of historical materials about homosexuals and homosexuality in Australia.
- Fonds Suzan Daniel General information about the Belgian gay/lesbian archive and documentation centre.
- GALA Gay and Lesbian Archives for South Africa At the University of the Witwatersrand. General information and a guide to the GALA archival collections.
- Gay and Lesbian History at The National Archives: An Introduction A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
- Glasgow Women's Library An information centre housing a lending library, archive collections and contemporary and historical artefacts relating to women’s lives, histories and achievements. It is host to the Lesbian Archive & Information Centre General information.
- Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources: A Classified Bibliography Based upon the Collections of the University of Chicago Library Over 4500 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library collections that deal primarily with gay and lesbian themes, compiled by
Frank Conaway a.o. (2002).
- Hall-Carpenter Archives The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) founded in 1982 are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain which followed the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1958. At the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA) An organization with two branches: Homodok-Lesbisch Archief (Amsterdam) and Anna Blaman Huis (Leeuwarden). General information in Dutch and English, online catalogues of the main collections and the reconstructed Schorer library.
- Lesbengeschichte This website presents the life and work of women-loving women in the German-speaking countries and a list of German-speaking films featuring Lesbian women from the beginnings to
the present
- Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
- Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego
- Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (LAIC, Glasgow) Set up in London in 1984 LAIC contains the UK's largest and most significant collection of materials about lesbian lives, activism and achievements. The Archive relocated to Glasgow Women's Library in 1995.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network A resource center and information clearinghouse for the history of LGBT religious movements; listed here for its Collections Catalog of research collections in the US and elsewhere of original sources from or about LGBT religious organizations or activists.
- Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen Lesbian Archive Nijmegen, Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
- Out in the Redwoods: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2003 A documentary oral history project which is based on twenty-seven oral history interviews with UCSC students, alumni, and staff. Ten narrative essays by UCSC alumni are also included. Many of the interviews (in full text), and other archival and informational resources are located on this website.
- Out Of The Past 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America. Biographical sketches and pictures, video clips, time line, bibliography and a few web links.This site is a companion to the film Out of the Past.
- People With A History An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History maintained by Paul Halsall.
- The Lesbian History Project Link collection (University of Southern California)
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women's history and Lesbian and gay collections.
Media
- Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer Online exhibition.
- Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection Online presentation of architectural photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), a pioneering photojournalist and portraitist, who documented the colonial architecture of the American South from 1933 through 1940, at the University of Virginia.
- Frauen der ersten Stunde Biographies of women in German broadcasting history, 1946-1956.
- The Telegrapher Web Page Research resources for the history of telegraphy and the work of women in the telegraph industry maintained by Thomas Jepsen.
- Women Come to the Front Journalists, photographers, and broadcasters. An online exhibit, from the Library of Congress.
- Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The book is freely accessible through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries website.
- Women Make Movies: links to sites on women and film and video
- Women with a Deadline: Female Printers, Publishers, and Journalists from the Colonial Period to World War I This National Women’s History Museum exhibit follows the history of American women in print journalism from the early settlers to the turn of the 20th century, highlighting key figures and pioneers in the industry.
Medicine & Nursing
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project ANMHP is a project hosted by the School of Nursing, at the University of Melbourne to promote the conservation of nursing's and midwifery's historical heritage and to foster historical scholarship on nursing and midwifery. General information and links to resources for Australian nursing history.
- Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
- Bibliography on Medieval Women, Gender, and Medicine By Monica Green: available for download in PDF from the Sciència.cat website. The bibliography is a revision of those published earlier in the Medieval Feminist Newsletter.
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l'Association canadienne pour l'histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Nursing History Collection A repository of artifacts and documents held by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum and the Library and Archives Canada. The website focusses on the artifacts at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. See also: Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps
- Center for the Study of Nursing History Besides general information about the Center, this site offers a small sampler of photographs and links to other resources for the history of medicine and nursing.
- Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters Transcriptions and facsimiles of letters written by Florence Nightingale. At the University of Kansas Medical Center.
- Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Selskab The Danish Society of Nursing History. General information, online articles, English page.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- International Nursing History Links From a web site which is part of a research project by Graham Thurgood exploring the history of nursing in West Yorkshire.
- Martha Ballard's Diary Online
- Nurses from Surinam Photos from the private albums of Surinamese women who came to Holland in the 1950s to become nurses; from the Historical Image Archive on Migrants (Dutch text).
- Nursing History Review Official publication of the
American Association for the History of Nursing.
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Information on archives and resources.
- Women Physicians' Autobiographies Online bibliography with brief descriptions of each entry. Only English titles - mainly but not exclusively by American doctors. By Marjorie S. Sirridge and Brenda R. Pfannenstiel, at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine.
- Women Physicians, 1850s-1970s This website gives access to a digital collection of over 27,000 pages of materials representing the history of women physicians from the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy of Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
- Women's Health and History A list of doctoral dissertations on women's health and history, from 1999 onwards; at the Health Sciences Library System, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC
Men, Masculinity Migration, Ethnic Relations, Exile
- Haar geschiedenis Interactive "herstory" website for Dutch women with a Moroccan, Surinam or Indonesian background.
- History of International Migration Online articles (html files) on migration history; a bibliography works on gender, migration and ethnicity compiled by Marlou Schrover, Leiden University (PDF file).
- Nurses from Surinam Photos from the private albums of Surinamese women who came to Holland in the 1950s to become nurses; from the Historical Image Archive on Migrants (Dutch text).
- Women's History: Irish Canadian Connections WHICC Discussion list archives.
- Women, War, Diaspora and Learning This website contains materials on Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain and
Sweden. It features bibliographies on gender and feminist organizing in the Middle East, gender and transnationality, women and war and other topics; from the University of Toronto
- Women: Irish/Canadian connections - a bibliography Compiled by Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.
Military
- American Women and the World War II Experience This guide serves as an introduction to online and print sources covering the experiences of American women during World War II. By Jennifer Broberg, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army Cantinières and vivandières were women who served as official auxiliary personnel to French (and other) army combat units from early modern times until about the time of World War One. Their official task was to sell food and drink to the soldiers of their regiment to supplement the always inadequate army rations. On this site Thomas Cardoza provides information about cantinières and vivandières focusing specifically on cantinières and vivandières of the French army, but also on cantinières and vivandières from other countries and cantinières serving such non-military entities as the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters).
- Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer (1526-1588) Biography of Kenau Hasselaer, business woman and legendary defender of the city of Haarlem against Spanish troops (1572-1573). Text, in Dutch, by Els Kloek.
- Minerva Center An educational foundation for the study of women and the military and women in war. Runs H-MINERVA Discussion Network, published Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military a journal now renamed Women and War; launching the Minerva Society for the Study of Women and War (MSSWW) in 2007. The website features bibliographies of women and the military in history.
- Minerva Journal of Women and War A multidisciplinary journal which welcomes submissions pertaining to the relationship of women to war and the role of gender in the armed services around the world. This new journal replaces Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military.
- Of Love and War This online version of an Australian War Memorial exhibition looks at the impact of war on the lives of Australian servicemen and women, the lovers they left behind or those they met while serving. Visitors can contribute using Flickr Commons and a Blog.
- Oorlogsliefdekind Nederlands-Indië - Indonesië ('War Love Child'). During the Indonesian war of independence, Dutch soldiers had relationships with Indonesian girls and fathered children with them. After Indonesia gained independence, and the troops went home an unknown number of Dutch-Indonesian children stayed behind with their mothers in the new Indonesia. Read about these children, their mothers and fathers. The texts are in Dutch but English and Indonesian versions will be provided.
- The American Experience: Fly Girls Website devoted to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), who signed up to fly with the U.S. military during World War II. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes joined the test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. The site contains interview transcripts, a bibliography, transcrips of documents and letters, a WASP timeline 1937-1979, maps, and other resources.
- Women Warriors of Japan. The Role of the Arms-Bearing Women in Japanese History Online article by Ellis Amdur.
- Women's Services, First World War A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
Music
- Early Women Composers This site provides an webring overview, a chronology and CD discography, MIDI soundfiles, relevant weblinks and other resources. Accompanying illustrations, some by women artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster, show men and women making music.
- Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica The International Adkins Chiti Women in Music Foundation organises festivals, concert series, exhibitions, research projects, publications, conventions, and master classes. Its library and archives in Fiuggi and Rome house over 32 thousand scores of women’s music and and over 15 thousand CD titles of music by women. The website contains general information about the Foundation and its activities. The database pages are under construction.
- Hildegard of Bingen A biography, bibliography, and discography.
- International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) website See Resources for many links to online materials about individual historical women musicians, special articles, historical surveys, collections and databases
- International Alliance for Women in Music Home Page Comprehensive website with many resources for women in music.
- Kapralova Society A non-profit arts organization based in Toronto, Canada. Its mission is to promote interest in Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova and other women in music through education, research, and special projects, in collaboration with other organizations. The website contains many resources, including lists of women composers and conductors, and links to other relevant sites.
- Lea Gilmore's - It's A Girl Thang! Women in the Blues - past and present - interviews, biographies, and links.
- Marian Anderson: A Life in Song Online exhibition celebrating the artistic development and musical career of American contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) presented by the University of Pennsylvania.
- Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, New Hampshire Composer A short biography of pianist and composer Amy Beach (1867-1944). With a complete listing of the University of New Hampshire's Mrs. H.H.A. Beach Collection.
- Women of Note: Celebrating two hundred and fifty years of music by women Online article by Diana Ambache in which she discusses her work researching music by women of the last 250 years, and the process of getting it recognised and returned to the standard repertoire.
Science & Engineering
- 4000 Years of Women in Science Biographies of more than 125 women scientists, a bibliography and some pictures. At the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women's organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
- Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher This online edition of Alice Fletcher's 1881 diary includes a transcript of her ethnographic field notes, reproductions of her sketches of Native American life, and photographs of Nebraska and South Dakota. Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) was the first American woman anthropologist. From the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Celebrating Women Anthropologists A website structured around the 31 days of March: Women's History Month. Brief biographies, bibliographies, and pictures of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Hortense Powdermaker, and other American anthropologists; at the University of South Florida.
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics A website presenting and documenting contributions made before 1976 by 83 women in the 20th century. These are documented by the original papers in which the discoveries were first reported. In addition there are historical essays and other historical documents not easily available elsewhere. At the University of California at Los Angeles.
- Gertrude Bell Project, The Letters, diaries and photographs taken by traveller and Arabist Gertrude Bell, and digitized by the University of Newcastle.
- Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture Online exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mead's birth (December 16 1901). The photographs and letters which are presented here by the Library of Congress are only a small part of the extensive Mead collection in the LC.
- Maria Mitchell Association | Archives and Special Collections Maria Mitchell was America’s first woman astronomer. Housed in the former schoolhouse of William Mitchell, the Maria Mitchell Association preserves Maria Mitchell's manuscripts, 19th century scientific books, contemporary scientific journals, the personal and professional papers of members of the Mitchell Family, and the records of the Maria Mitchell Association.
- Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and natural historian (1647-1717) who painted the flora and fauna of Surinam. This anonymous website contains biographical information in German and English, and images of illustrations from the books she published. See also Women and Nature: Maria Sibylla Merian, Special Collections, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics From the website of the The Ada Project: Supporting Women in Computing.
- Powering the Electrical Revolution: Women and Technology A section of the IEEE Virtual Museum The history of electricity, electronics, and computers devoted to women and the communications industry, electricity and the housewife, women building the electrical industries, women and computers, and women as engineers.
- Rachel Carson A website devoted to the life and legacy of Rachel Carson, biologist, writer, ecologist (1907-1964).
- Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna Free online publication based on a doctoral dissertation by Maria Rentetzi.
- Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Links collected by Ellen Spertus.
- Women in the History of American Librarianship Biographical and bibliographical information, by Lisa Bartle. These pages are part of a project at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Library and Information Science in June, 1996. They are the result of a search for women in the history of librarianship.
- Women Inventors Brief online biographies presented by the Inventors Museum and the Alliance for American Innovation.
- Women Mathematicians Biographical essays or comments on women mathematicians and some photos. At Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia.
Sexuality
- 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation Online exhibit of The New York Public Library on the year of gay liberation; with extensive information on the LGBT collections, programs, and expertise that The Library has to offer.
- Anarchism & Sexuality: Texts from and about the anarchist tradition Reading list from the Anarchist Studies Network, Loughborough University, UK. See also the Anarchist Studies Network Reading List: Gender
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Website of the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality, an official subcommittee of the Canadian Historical Association. The site includes a newsletter, calls for papers, bibliographies, course materials, and links.
- EFiGiES Association des Jeunes Chercheuses et Chercheurs en Etudes Féministes, Genre et Sexualités French association for feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Information about the association's activities, bibliography, mailing list.
- H-Histsex: H-Net Network on the History of Sexuality
- Hall-Carpenter Archives The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) founded in 1982 are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain which followed the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1958. At the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- History of Rape: A Bibliography By Stefan Blaschke. It provides information on writings dealing with the history of rape, including sexual child abuse, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, child prostitution, forced prostitution, sexual slavery, sexual(ized) violence. For updates see the History of Rape Blog.
- HISTSEX The archive of Lesley Hall's discussion list.
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology The former Archive for Sexology at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network A resource center and information clearinghouse for the history of LGBT religious movements; listed here for its Collections Catalog of research collections in the US and elsewhere of original sources from or about LGBT religious organizations or activists.
- Lesley Hall's Web Page Resources for the history of sexuality, writings on and by Stella Browne, feminist science fiction & fantasy, women and medicine.
- Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel The documents gathered for this "mini-edition" chronicle Margaret Sanger's publication of the radical, feminist journal, The Woman Rebel, and her emergence as the foremost leader of the birth control movement. Published by the Model Editions Partnership.
- Margaret Sanger Papers Project: Home Page A project of the Department of History, New York University.
- Mio, Andrea, Cultura libertaria e nuova società. Le riviste spagnole di divulgazione alternativa (1923-1936) Online dissertation on Spanish libertarian, alternative periodicals. The subjects are mainly sexuality, naturism and eugenics.
- Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health Pictures and descriptions of pads, sponges, sanitary aprons, cups and tampons European and American women used for menstruation in the 19th century and before. Website by Harry Finley.
- National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
- Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception At the Dittrick Museum of Medical History (Cleveland, Ohio).
- Power & Sexuality in the Middle East Online articles and a bibliography at The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) website
- Prostitution: The History of Female Prostitution in Australia Online article by Raelene Frances, at the Women's Issues and Social Empowerment site, Australia.
- Queer Studies in Poland This small website contains information in Enlish and Polish on queer studies activities, conference announcements, a reading list (Polish titles) and a few links to other sites.
- Sexbiblio An online bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality. About 25.000 Citations of non fiction primary and secundary sources for the history of sexuality in Europea, the USA and Canada from 1700 through 2008. From the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, Austria.
- SexBiblio: bibliography of the history of western sexuality Online bibliographic database containing 23,000 titles covering the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 2004, important titles of the sexual history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including non-Western societies; bibliographies and resources in the internet. English keywords. At the Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, Austria.
- Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society An international Journal
- Sexuality, the Working Classes and Labour Movements Abstracts and other documentation of a conference held in Linz, Austria, 2002.
- SheelaNaGig.org a guide to Sheela Na Gig carvings in the UK Sheela Na Gigs are quasi-erotic stone carvings of a female figure usually found on Norman churches. The site includes information on Irish and French sheelas.
- Socialism and Sexuality An international academic network promoting scholarly work on the sexual ideologies and programs of radical social movements. Conference information, discussion list.
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
- The Hall of Contraception Small virtual exhibition by William Petric, from Urban Desires 1 (1995) 6.
- The Pill A companion site to a documentary tv film about the contraceptive pill. It contains a description of the film, an explanation of how the pill works, a brief overview of contraceptive methods in history and other background information, a list of book titles, weblinks and a teachers's guide.
- Venus minsieke gasthuis. Over seksuele attitudes in de achttiende eeuwse Republiek Online article on sexual attitudes in the eigthteenth-century Dutch Republic by Herman Roodenburg. With a summary in English.
- Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), psychologist and sexologist. Biographical and bibliographical information in German.
Single Women
- Bear Ye One Another's Burdens: The Girls' Friendly Society 1875-2005 An online exhibition based on the archive of the Girls' Friendly Society (GFS), held at The Women's Library.
- Filles du Roi These young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who settled in New France after the founding of Québec, in 1608, and of Montréal, in 1642, are so called because their transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were assumed by the royal treasury; from the Virtual Museum of New France website.
- Scholars of Single Women Network Website of a network "for everyone interested in scholarship on single women (any area, any time period)". Resources include syllabi, abstracts, and links.
- Widowhood among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria By Chima Jacob Korieh. Online version of thesis, University of Bergen, Norway, 1996
Theory and Philosophy
- Bibliography of Feminist Philosophers by Abigail Gosselin: a supplement to the Feminist History of Philosophy by Charlotte Witt; from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Communications Theory / Gender / Identity Resources This collection of resources associated with the socio-cultural concept of identity include bibliographies and links to relevant sites. By David Gauntlett.
- Feminist Rhetorics Home Page Histories of feminist rhetorics and writing: an experimental graduate course at three sites in the USA. Course information, bibliography and web links.
- Feminist Theory Website Bibliographical and other information about various fields within feminist theory, national or ethnic feminist movements, and individual feminist theoreticians. The site was created by Kristin Switala and is hosted at Virginia Tech University.
- Gender & Politics Collection of links to women's political organizations, journals, and other web resources. From the UK Political Studies Association.
- WSSLinks - Women and Philosophy Web Sites Webguide developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Witchcraft
- 17th Century Colonial New England with special emphasis on the Essex County witch-hunt of 1692 A link collection with an annotated bibliography compiled by Margo Burns.
- Arbeitskreis interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung AKIH The Study Group for Interdisciplinary Witchcraft Research is an informal, international and interdisciplinary circle of scholars and laypersons who are interested in scholarly discussions of the history of witchcraft and witchcraft trials, especially in Early Modern Europe. Activities include annual workshops and occasionally larger conferences in Stuttgart and Weingarten, Germany.
- Dresdner Auswahlbibliographie zur Hexenforschung (DABHEX) Comprehensive witchcraft bibliography compiled by Gerd Schwerhoff, Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, TU Dresden, Germany.
- Hexenforschung Mailinglist Mailing List for Witchcraft Research.
- History of the witch hunt (Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung) An online encyclopedia on the history of the witch hunt, a collection of sources with digitized illustrations, treatises and archival documents, mailinglists, annotated links and special bibliographies. Maintained at the Server Frühe Neuzeit (University of München) in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis für Interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung (research group for interdisciplinary witchcraft research).
- Recht van de Lage Landen = Low Countries Law Digitized documents, articles and a bibliography on witchcraft trials in the early modern southern Netherlands on this legal history site maintained by Jos Monballyu, Leuven University (Belgium).
- Staatsarchiv Wertheim: Quellen zur Hexenverfolgung Guide to sources for witchcraft trials in Wertheim, Germany.
- The Witchcraft Bibliography Project A bibliography of witchcraft in early modern Europe and America. By Jeffrey Merrick and Richard M. Golden (pdf).
- The Witching Hours: Medieval Through Enlightenment Period European Witch History This site includes a witch craze bibliography and link collection.
- United States History Index: Colonial Era The Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692. This United States History index of the WWW Virtual Library has a special section devoted to the Salem witchcraft trials. Links to maps, (web)bibliographies, biographies, documents and articles.
- Witchcraft in Salem Village Transcipts of the legal documents of the Salem Witchcraft outbreak of 1692 and related documents; a brief introduction to the Salem trials, a map of Salem village, and general information on the Danvers Archival Center.
- Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud Online essay by Meir Bar-Ilan.
- Witches Sabbath at Yuletide: Christmas Witchcraft in 17th-century Finnmark (Northern-Norway) Online article with links to other European witchcraft resources, by Rune Hagen, University of Tromsø (2004).
Women's Rights & Suffrage
- 100 Jahre Frauenstudium an der Universität Tübingen 1904-2004 Historical overview, stories, interviews, biographies and period documents -all in PDF- from an exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the admittance of women to Tübingen University.
- 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition The 1891 Women's Suffrage petition is a roll of linen cloth abour 260 metres long. Pasted on to it are the signatures of approximately 30,000 women collected in 1891. The petition was presented to the Victorian parliament to urge the Government of the day to grant women the right to vote. Although the right to vote was not won until 1908, the petition is an icon of the women's suffrage movement in Victoria.
- 1893 Woman's Suffrage Petition From the National Archives of New Zealand holdings.
- 90 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. Die Frau im politischen Plakat zur Reichstagswahl 1919 To mark the ninetieth anniversary of women's suffrage in Germany the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie (Bonn) offers a selection of posters to download.
- Aletta Jacobs online Aletta Jacobs was de first female medical doctor in the Netherlands. She was also pacifist and a campaigner for women's suffrage. She worked for the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) and travelled with Carrie Chapman Catt to support women to get the vote in Europe, Africa and Asia. This new website offers biographical, documentary, and bibliographical information, photographs, a timeline and some related information. A short biography and a history of Jacobs papers are available in English.
- American Women. A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States Part of the American Memory Web site, which also includes the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress, Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996, Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party.
- Australian Electoral History: Milestones for Women Fact sheets and links to other resources for the history of women and parliamentary representation in Australia. From the Australian Electoral Commission.
- Australian Women’s History Forum (AWHF) An over arching body incorporating Women’s History Month. The site offers news about events and books, a listing of key events in Australian women’s history, a timeline of milestones and anniversaries, links to relevant sites such as the Australian Women’s Archive project, Women's History Month resources and a forum for comments on the site, suggestions of names, places and key events.
- Bibliographies of Feminist Foremothers From Sunshine for Women. See also their Book Summaries.
- Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home The website for the Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home in Charles City, Iowa, includes a comprehensive bibliography and links to significant sites concerning the U.S. woman suffrage movement.
- Center for American Women and Politics Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, NJ. This website on women and politics features fact sheets on women officeholders, candidates and voters and other topics in women's political history.
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Website Materials and reminiscences put together by various veterans of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, which was founded in Chicago in 1969.
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University.
- Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) Biographical and bibliographical information.
- Frauen in Bewegung: 1918-1938. Biographien, Vereinsprofile, Dokumente An information system on women's policy, women's politics and women's movements in the inter-war period 1918 to 1938. A joint endeavour of Ariadne and the Department of Contemporary History at Vienna University.
- Frauen machen Geschichte: Frauenakademie des Renner-Institut Online course materials on the history of women's rights and social democracy in Austria; compiled by Angelika Zach.
- Frauen tragen die eine Hälfte des Himmels Online publications and documents on German gender politics and the women's movement, at the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website.
- Ghosts of the Second Wave A collection of 51 historic photographs celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1977 National Women's Conference, Houston, Texas, wherein the National Plan of Action was ratified. Photographs are captioned and the complete text of the National Plan of Action is online. By Linda Griffith.
- International Otto Gross Society Gross (1877-1920) was an Austrian psychiatrist and anarchist, later communist who advocated an anti-authoritarian, repression-free upbringing, the emancipation from patriarchal, hierarchical structures in the context of family, marriage, career, etc., and the emancipation of women in particular. See also 'Otto Gross zwischen Max Stirner und Wilhelm Reich', an article by Bernd Laska, and 'The Devil Underneath the Couch: The Secret Story of Jung's Twin Brother', an article (MS Word file) by Gottfried Heuer.
- International Woman Suffrage Timeline
Winning the Vote for Women Around the World From the About.com women's history website
- Jo Freeman: Feminist Scholar and Author Personal website featuring articles Ms Freeman has written over the years, photo's, buttons, and links.
- Jongens en meisjes, een duik in het verleden (Boys and girls - diving into the past). An interactive website designed for educational purposes by the Belgian The Archive Centre on Women’s History AVG - CARHIF.
- Katharine Bement Davis Suffragist Commissioner. Mini-history and some documents published at the NYC Department of Correction's Homepage.
- Living the Legacy 1848-1998 History of the Women's Rights Movement, sponsored by the National Women's History Project.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage Website . Matilda Joslyn Gage (March 25, 1826 - 1898), suffragist, historian of women, author and lecturer, woman's rights activist and theorist, advocate for civil rights, abolitionist.
- Mill: The Subjection of Women From the Women's Studies Reading Room, University of Maryland College Park.
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels to win the vote for women.
- Mina Kruseman (1839-1922) Dutch singer, performer, novelist, dramatist, feminist. Biographical and bibliographical information from a website devoted to women writing in Indonesia in the Colonial era.
- National Woman's Party Digital Collection (Washington D.C.). The National Woman's Party (NWP) holds a unique collection of records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women's full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.
- New Zealand women and the vote: suffrage and beyond On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- Oral History Online - Suffragists Oral History Project Transcriptions of tape-recorded interviews with seven major and five rank and file American suffragists.
- Roads from Seneca Falls Material on U.S. women’s history and leadership for K-12 students and teachers. Linking lesson plans, activities, primary sources, brief biographies, bibliographies, and more than 800 women’s history historic sites, museums, and libraries, Roads from Seneca Falls catalogs websites across the country by subject, author, grade level, and type of material. The site is produced by the State University of New York and Syracuse University.
- Susan B. Anthony: Celebrating "A Heroic Life" Online version of an exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's death: letters, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia drawn from the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library.
- The Emancipation of Women 1860-1920 Biographies, primary sources, bibliography from Spartacus Educational - Free Educational Material.
- The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens presents: Votes for Women Online exhibition.
- The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' This National Library of Medicine website provides an online exhibition of biographical materials on Perkins Gilman and a PDF of the story in its original form that first appeared in 1892 in The New England Magazine.
- The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee The aim of the Committee is to ensure greater recognition for S. Pankhurst by raising money for a life size statue. Information on Pankhurst and the Committee.
- Travels for Reform: The Early Work of
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861 The papers in this "mini-edition" focus on the first decade of their collaboration and are published by the Model Editions Partnership. For information on a larger project to find and copy all of the Stanton and Anthony papers that still survive, go to the Rutgers project homesite.
- Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement Text and selected images from a 1995 exhibition in the University of Rochester Library.
- Vindication of the rights of woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. From the Women's Studies Reading Room, University of Maryland College Park.
- Votes For Women Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, in the Library of Congress. Web catalog of books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the American women's suffrage campaign.
- Votes for women A website celebrating 75 years of women's votes and an exhibition at The Women's Library in the UK, aimed at encouraging teenage girls to use their vote. It also contains a British women's suffrage timeline and small biographies.
- Western New York Suffragists -Winning the Vote This site contains information on the women's suffrage movement in the greater Rochester region on Western New York. The site is built around biographies of 35 suffragists from the region and contains digitized images of photographs, books, calendars, letters, and other memorabilia that relates to them.
- Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment Primary Sources, Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students.
- Women & Politics in South Australia Website "... celebrating the role of women in the social and political development of South Australia. South Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the vote in 1894, and was the first in the world to enable women to enter Parliament."
- Women and Social Movements This is the editorial website for 'Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000' (WASM). It offers access to selected materials on WASM and guidelines for prospective contributors. About a fourth of the projects on Women and Social Movements remain freely available. The site also has a Teachers Corner, and links to related projects.
- Women in Parliaments: World and Regional Averages Data compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. See also their Women in Politics bibliographic database and A World Chronology of the Recognition of Women's Rights to Vote and to Stand for Election.
- Women Wielding Power: Pioneer Female State Legislators This virtual exhibition at the National Women's History Museum highlights the first North-American pioneer legislators.
- Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York.
- Working Class Movement Library Salford, England. The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the
suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist
movement of the 1970s.
- World suffrage timeline - women and the vote A chronology from New Zealand History online. "This chronology, which can only be a tentative list, was compiled by consulting a number of sources, some of which offered conflicting information: the dates given may have been for the year that suffrage was granted or the first time that women actually voted; suffrage may have been limited to a specific group of women, but that was not always noted".
Writers
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century A digital collection of more than fifty published works by 19th-century black women writers, with biographies and other background information, from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library.
- American Women's Dime Novels, 1870-1920 A history of the women's sensational dime novel romance by Felicia L. Carr, at the Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University.
- Ann Griffiths A website dedicated to the study of the life and work of the Welsh poet and hymn-writer, 1776-1805. It contains an introduction to her life and work, the text of her hymns and
letters with English translations, and online access to digitised versions of a wide cross-section of printed and manuscript material; at Cardiff University.
- Ausgewählte Lyrik deutschsprachiger Dichterinnen Expanding collection of around 800 texts by 33 German speaking women poets from the 17th to the 19th century. With short biographies for every writer. Compiled by Wolf Busch.
- Ayn Rand Brief online biography.
- Belle van Zuylen/Madame de Charrière Website devoted to this 18th c. writer who was born in the Netherlands, lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Digitized letters, works, biographical information, bibliography. Dutch and French text.
- Bibliographies of Feminist Foremothers From Sunshine for Women. See also their Book Summaries.
- British Women Playwrights around 1800 Full electronic editions (HTML and PDF), with introductions, of plays by Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley and others. The website also contains related essays, links and a bibliography. General editors: Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra.
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 An electronic collection of texts from the Shields Library, University of California, Davis.
- Celebration of Women Writers Extensive lists of women writers from all over the world and from all periods. Many, but not all, entries have links to online biographies, bibliographies and texts.
- Datenbank Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland 1945 ff. Database of Women Writers in Germany since 1945. No online access, but general information in German and English, and a form for submitting biographical information for the database. (Bremen, Germany).
- Domestic Goddesses, aka scribbling women Six Victorian women writers: Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, and Edith Wharton. Essays, biography and related links.
- Dot City: Dorothy Parker's New York A visual history of Dorothy Parker's life in New York during the period when she was a member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Images of the places where she lived, poems with illustrations, and an audio archive (Real Audio) featuring Ms. Parker reading some of her favorite poems. The website is sponsored by the Dorothy Parker Society of New York.
- Early Modern French Women Writers French-language texts by women writers of the 15th-17th centuries including Christine de Pizan, Diane de Poitiers, Louise Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, and Pernette du Guillet; biographies, images, publication histories and a list of secondary studies. A Women's Studies Digitization Project at the Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center, University of Minnesota.
- Femmes écrivains et littérature africaine Website devoted to African women writers writing in French, English, Portugese, Spanish and African. Biographical and bibliographical information, interviews (1973-2002), a selection of recommended readings, and more than sixty unpublished short stories, poems and other texts. Two bibliographies of African women authors writing in English and Portuguese are available, the latter introduced by Dr. Tony Simoes da Silva. A list of publishing houses located in Africa is also available. From the University of Western Australia Faculty of Arts.
- Gender Inn Homepage A searchable database providing access to over 8,300 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature, at the university of Cologne, Germany.
- Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies An Allied Organization of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
American Council of Learned Scholars
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA
GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women's cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Guide to Writings by or about Women in Pre-independent India The Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. Searchable database.
- Het Damescompartiment Online Raden Adjeng Kartini, Beata van Helsdingen-Schoevers, Mrs. J.M.C. Kloppenburg-Versteegh, Carry van Bruggen and others. Bibliographies and biographies of colonial Indonesian, Indonesian and Dutch women who wrote about Indonesia in the colonial period. By Vilan van de Loo.
- Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen Online exhibition and bibliography from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- International Marie de France Society Links to information about Marie de France at the International Marie de France Society webpages.
- International Virginia Woolf Society General information about the Society and its activities, online bibliographies, links to Virginia Woolf source materials and other Virginia Woolf societies; at the University of Toronto.
- Maine Women Writers Collection - University of New England Libraries The Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, is a special collection of published and non-published literary, cultural and social history sources, by and about women authors. Among them are Rachel Carson, May Sarton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The site has lots of information, including online finding aids and access to the UNE Libraries catalogue.
- Margaret Cavendish Society Website An international organization. The site contains current and past newsletters, contacts, information on joining the Society, images, conference details and links to bibliographies, books, e-text and related sites.
- Margaret Fuller Society A non-profit educational organization founded to stimulate interest in the life and writings of Margaret Fuller and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information among Fuller scholars and other interested persons. Genral information, biography, bibliography, a few online articles on Fuller.
- Marsden - Dora Marsden (1882-1960) British writer, editor of avantgarde literary journals, feminist and anarchist. Online article by Bernd Laska in German and English.
- Medieval Women Writers Educational site on Medieval Women who wrote in Latin and French. It includes excerpts from the Itinerarium Egeriae, Constantia's letter to Baldericus, and a text by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. Texts by Christine de Pizan, excerpts from Medieval French and Occitan women writers, an annotated Vulgar Latin Grammar, selected songs of the trobaritz and Marie de France will be added. It will also include links to other relevant sites, images, audio recordings of music and readings.
- Ming Ching Women's Writings The McGill-Harvard-Yenching library Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Digitization Project is a joint project supported by McGill University and Harvard-Yenching Library, which is purposed to offer all researchers and students digital information on approximately 90 titles of women’s writings currently held in the Yenching Library, mainly published during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China, from 1368 to 1923.
- Oscholars A website dedicated to interdisciplinary fin de siècle studies and particularly to Oscar Wilde's work and circle; home to Latchkey, Journal of New Woman studies, and The Michaelian, dedicated to scholarship on Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, poets who published under the name 'Michael Field'.
- Perdita Project, The An online guide to over 400 manuscript compilations in collections around the world of early modern women's writing; from the Raymond Williams Centre for Research at Nottingham Trent University.
- Società italiana delle Letterate Italian association for women's comparative literature. Information in Italian.
- Société des études staëliennes Information about this society for the study of the life and work of Madame de Staël and other writers of the Groupe de Coppet; large online bibliographies,
biograpical notes, conferences, and book announcements, all in French.
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz from the Golden Age Spanish sonnets project. Poems in the original Spanish and translations by Alix Ingber, bibliography and links to other resources.
- Tema Female Writers Bibliographical and biographical information on Swedish and other Scandinavian women writers. Part of the Project Runeberg: Nordic Literature on the Internet.
- Texts by Madame Blavatsky From the Theosophical University Press Online: The Theosophical Society.
- The Brown University Women Writers Project A collection of pre-Victorian (1400-1850) literature written by women. General project information and a list of authors. To access the resources a subscription is needed.
- The Century of the Child (1900), by Swedish feminist Ellen Key (1849-1926), full text at the University of Nijmegen.
- The Emory Women Writers Project Resource Project A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English, 17th-19th c.
- The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress have been digitized and are available to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress, the New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Parts of the collection and the finding aid are available for public access on the Internet.
- The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' This National Library of Medicine website provides an online exhibition of biographical materials on Perkins Gilman and a PDF of the story in its original form that first appeared in 1892 in The New England Magazine.
- The novels of Isabelle de Charrière (1740-1805) (Belle van Zuylen). Slightly revised electronic version of a dissertation by Dennis Wood (1975).
- The Orlando Project. An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles General project information.
- The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project aims to make available through electronic publication the correspondences of early to mid-Victorian British women writers. This website by Katharine Patterson now gives access to an online bibliographical database of the letters of Anna Jameson. Records of the letters of Harriet Martineau and some of the complete letter texts will be added.
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress A selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. At the American Memory Web site.
- Victorian Women Writers Project Transcriptions of works by 19th-century British women writers freely available through the WWW.
- Virginia Woolf, A Eulogy to Words A seven minute excerpt of a radio feature recorded by the BBC in 1937 [RealPlayer]
- Willa Cather Archive Digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship, a guide to her letters, biographies, digitized images, bibliography and resources for scholars and teachers. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Women Lecturers in Melbourne, Australia 1880-1905 Women's names from the classified advertisement columns headed 'Meetings & Lectures' of The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, for the period 1880-1905. There were many women involved in public life at the time, and yet little has been written about many of them. The list of names and the subjects on which the women spoke was compiled by Helen D. Harris.
- Women Writers Archive A website on early modern women's writing. The site contains links, biographical information, and critical resources on Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Egerton, Jane Cavendish, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips, maintained by Emily Smith.
- Women Writers' Networks This website addresses students, researchers and others interested in women’s writing. It presents and invites research on women's writing (before 1900) made possible by the database WomenWriters.
- Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 Texts by women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. Primary texts (some are password protected), a bibliographic survey, biographies, images, maps, publication histories, and secondary studies on women's travel. A Women's Studies Digitization Project at the Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center, University of Minnesota.
- Women's Writing An international journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century.
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