Gender and Sexuality Studies

Provides access to primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. The material demonstrates how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, and erotica, from the 16th century forward.This archive includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I & II, Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

This collection includes the experiences of hundreds of women, as revealed diaries and letters, spanning more than 300 years.

This digital collection provides access to primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to 1970. This database includes journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental NGO and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues.

A women's history collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Collected by Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen starting In the late 1800's and spans four centuries and 15 languages. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.

An internationally scoped collection of primary sources documenting the artistic response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

This database includes archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. It includes US and UK titles such as The Advocate and Gay Times. It chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community.

A resource of digitized 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. It includes select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press.

LGBTQ+ Life searches across scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications, plus historically important primary sources, including books, magazines and newspapers. It includes historical LGBTQ publications, including ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, The Advocate, Christopher Street, Body Politic, The New York Native, and much more.

These papers cover every aspect of the birth control movement, including the movement's changing ideologies, its campaign for legitimacy, and its internal conflicts and organizational growth.

A collection of letters and diaries of 1,325 women who lived in North America before 1960.

This collection includes newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agenda - the "public" face of gay and lesbian activism. It also includes serial literature on its "private" face, exploring the challenges and complexities of building gay and lesbian communities inside and outside of a "straight" world.

Queer Pasts is a collection of primary source exhibits on queer history and culture. The curation of these collections seeks to broaden the field of queer history by prioritizing projects that focus on the experiences and perspectives of under-represented historical groups, including people of color, trans people, and people with disabilities.

This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It investigates the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and personal accounts. Module I draws on the Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections. Module II, Self-Expression, Community and Identity, was developed by partnerships with the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, The National Archives, UK, the Edward Carpenter Papers, the Norman Haire Collection, the National Lesbian and Gay Survey, and the Anne Lister Diaries.

This module is comprised of records of three important women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance. Originally a committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the National Woman's Party (NWP) was founded in 1913 when Alice Paul and her colleagues broke away from NAWSA in dissent over strategy and tactics. The Women's Action Alliance, established in 1971 as a grass-roots organization, concerned itself with issues such as employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care, and education. The League of Women Voters collection documents almost every facet of women's involvement in U.S. politics from 1920 to 1974.

An archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, and including pages, advertisements, covers and fold-outs. This archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

The collection provides a window into American social history (illustrates both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave) by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social norms across the twentieth century.

Women and Social Movements is divided into document projects that interpret and present materials, many of which are not otherwise available online, in U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Formats include audio-video, images and websites as well as printed materials.

A collection of books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law, demonstrating the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.

Contains two major sets of records documenting the experience of American women during World War II: Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps. Primary sources document a wide range of issues pertinent to women during this time of turbulent change, including studies on the treatment of women by unions in several Midwestern industrial centers, and the influx of women to industrial centers during the war. Topics covered in records and correspondence include women's work in war industries, pivotal issues like equal pay, childcare and race, and extensive documentation on the women who joined and served in the Women's Army Corps as WACs.

A collection of women's interest magazines from the 19th century through present. Topics include consumer culture, economics/marketing, family life, fashion, gender studies, health and fitness, home/interior design, popular culture, and social history.

This archive contains three collections: Women’s Issues and Identities; Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922; and Voice and Vision. The Women's Issues and Identities collection contains digitized primary source material focused on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. The American Antiquarian Society collection includes around 5,700 monographs published between 1820 and 1922 in the United States and authored by women. The Voice and Vision collection contains primary sources from 1780 to 2000 and explores issues such as the abolition of slavery, alcohol and temperance movements, pacifism and political activism, domestic service, education, health and hygiene, divorce and social reform.

These collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College consist of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights.

Aggregates digital collections of primary source material from all 10 UC libraries, as well as other libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and cultural heritage organizations in California. The collections provide open access to photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.

Provides public access to detailed descriptions and finding aids of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.