These newspaper clippings document Iowa's war efforts at home and on abroad. The site provides a sample search for "Women's military
activity," which retrieves more than 3000 records. The collection includes a large number of clippings about...
Naval Reserve -- Women's Reserve; Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
This collection of local newsfilm, documentaries and other programs presents 60 years of social and cultural history of the San Francisco Bay Area. A sample of the many relevant films in this collection follows:
Chicano women's rights (1973);...
This collection from the Washington State Archives documents contacts between the Governor's Office, women, and women's organizations, regarding women's issues, womens suffrage, women's rights, and comparable worth. The Papers of Dixy Lee Ray...
Equal Rights Amendment; Pay equity; Women -- Suffrage
In addtion to classic feminist works that influenced the thinking of CWLU members, this collection offers selections from Womankind (CWLU's newspaper) and other sources covering such topics as consciousness raising, family life, health,...
Abortion; Feminism; Feminists; Lesbians; Women's rights
Drawing from the holdings of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections and other repositories, this site offers a variety of primary source materials that document the history of women's education. In addition to photos of students and faculty,...
Physical education for women; Women college students; Women educators; Women's colleges; Working class women -- Education
United States -- Kentucky -- Berea; United States -- Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr; China
This collection focuses on the radical origins of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Documents are organized under these subject categories: "General and Theoretical;" "Medical and Reproductive Rights;" "Music;"...
African American women; Feminism; Lesbian feminism; Women's rights
This collection features approximately 300 posters
that document women’s activism throughout the
world. These posters cover a wide variety of topics:
discrimination against women; economics; education;
feminism; motherhood; peace movement...
Feminism; Human rights; Reproductive rights; Violence against women; Women's rights
This collection includes photographs and scrapbooks from the papers of Louise Noun (1908-2002) and Mary Louise Smith (1914-1997). Noun and Smith founded the Iowa Women's Archives, which opened in 1992. Noun had leadership roles in League of Women...
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915. This collection includes portrait photographs of WILPF leaders and staff from the early decades to the mid-1990s.
Peace movements; Women and Peace; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The "Women's History" section of this large collection of oral history sound recordings includes such subsections as "Chicana feminists," "Feminist Health Movement," "Professionals and Entrepreneurs," "Reformers and Radicals," and "Rosie the...
Employment; Feminism; Feminists; Indian women -- North America; Japanese American women; Labor unions; Mexican American women; Southeast Asian American women; Women labor leaders; Women social reformers; Women -- Suffrage; Women's health services;...
The organization of this digital collection is based on the six areas used by Helen and Robert Lynd in their seminal sociological study of Muncie ("Middletown"), Indiana in the 1920s and 1930s: Getting a Living (e.g., Muncie Business and...
Camps; Religion; Sisters; Societies and clubs; Women -- Suffrage; Social life and customs; Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.
Highlights include annual reports from a variety of charities and institutions: the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless... (1852); College Settlements Association; Female Hospitable Society of Philadelphia (1831); the...
Child welfare; Social settlements; Women in charitable work; Women philanthropists
United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston; United States -- New York (State) -- New York
This digital collection brings together four collections from the Washington State Archives: the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women; Records of the Washington State Women's Council, 1971-1978; Records of the Washington State Governor’s...
Pay equity; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Women's rights
Oyez provides audio recordings of oral arguments in Supreme Court cases, as well as links to opinions in every case decided by the Court back to 1793. For overviews of many relevant cases in Oyez, see Clare Cushman's Supreme Court Decisions and...
Abortion; Birth control; Jury duty; Pregnancy; Reproductive rights; Sex discrimination; Sex discrimination in employment; Sexual harassment; Women's rights
This online exhibit documents Bolton's work for a variety of women's rights causes, including seeking protections for rape victims and for laws that would improve the efficiency of prosecuting rape crimes; opening department store lunchrooms to...
Equal Rights Amendment; Rape victims; Women's rights
The College of St. Catherine was founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. This digital colleciton includes images of students and campus buildings; graduation pictures from St. Mary’s Hospital School of...
Catholic women's colleges; Nurses; Women college students; Women's colleges
Browse this collection of 125 oral history interviews by name, ethnicity, gender, and occupation. Key topics include the sit-ins at Woolworth's in 1960, participation in the civil rights movement by Bennett College students, and leadership roles in...
African American women; Civil rights movements; Race relations; Women college students; Women's colleges; Women journalists; Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A
Issues from WomaNews: Gainesville's Feminist Newspaper (1975-1978) include articles about such topics as the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive rights, women's health, and women in sports. The collection also includes photos, brochures, clippings...
