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Welcome
to World Women Study Collections
World Women Study Collections bring primary resources
together for researchers all over the world from Alexander Street Press(ASP)
and Adam Matthew Digital(AMD).The collections include Women and Social
Movements in the United States: Scholar's Edition, Women in The National
Archives and British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries and so forth.
It contains manuscripts, diaries, letters and photos and so on.
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| Women and Social Movements in the United States: Scholar's Edition |
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These primary source collections
include rare and previously inaccessible materials. They are enhanced
by scholarly essays from leading historians that illuminate key historical
issues in those texts and provide entry points for accessing the collections.
Altogether, the database/journal includes 160,000 pages of documents
written by more than 2,450 primary authors. Each issue adds new material,
offering the latest historical scholarship and related primary materials.
A dictionary of social movements and a chronology of U.S. women's
history complement the primary sources and facilitate searching within
the database.
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| Women and Social Movements, International, 1840 to present |
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The collection lets readers study people whose names are not well known but who are increasingly the focus of contemporary scholarship. For example, Sarah Pugh, best friend of Lucretia Mott, barred from the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention, emerges as a key figure in the international antislavery movement of the 1840s. Associated with the proceedings will be 100,000 pages of journals, manuscripts, letters, photographs, diaries, and ephemera; reports from different national committees.
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| Women in The National Archives |
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The finding aid is the result of a five-year project
by staff at The National Archives in the mid-1990s and enables researchers
to quickly locate details of documents at TNA relating to women.
This finding aid is far more detailed and extensive than anything
available elsewhere online and has the benefit of ranging across
all of the document classes TNA hold.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries from Colonial times to 1950 |
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The collection includes approximately 150,000 pages
of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000
pages of previously unpublished manuscripts-all in electronic format
for the first time. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources,
including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs,
and conference proceedings, and much of it is in copyright. Represented
are all age groups and life stages, a wide range of ethnicities,
many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. More
than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
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| Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society |
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the
American Antiquarian Society brings together 105,000 pages of the
personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries,
displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, Semantically
Indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely
from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.
It currently contains over 103,000 pages. Spanning 1750 to 1950,
the database is particularly strong in 19th-century material.
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| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries |
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes
the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed
in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has
been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more
thoroughly than ever before. The collection now includes primary
materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully
chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes
biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources
in the database.
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| Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 |
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Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920
showcases unique primary source material for the study of American
social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th
centuries and fully-searchable access to 75 rare periodicals. A
full run of Town Topics: The Journal of Society from the New York
Public Library, 1887-1923, an essential source of articles and commentary
on art, music, literature, society, gossip and scandal.
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| Perdita Manuscripts |
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This resource is produced in association with the
Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham
Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner
of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama.
One of the key attractions of the resource is that it brings together
little known material from widely scattered locations. This resource
includes over two hundred and thirty manuscripts from fifteen libraries
and archives in the UK and North America.
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| North American Women's Drama |
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of North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights,
together with detailed, fielded information on related productions,
theaters, production companies, and more. More than 30% of the plays
in the collection have never been published before. The database also
includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera
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| Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family |
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Century Advice Literature brings together more than 150,000 pages
of rare material to provide a reflection on historical American attitudes
towards race, citizenship, education, work, sex, gender roles, life
cycles, family, and religion. |
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| Black Women Writers |
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Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature
and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and
the African diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women
needed to create their own identities and movements. The collection
documents that effort, presenting the woman's perspective on the
diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular
the works document the evolution of black feminism. Many of the
writings have been hidden in rare and hard to find texts, obscure
typewritten documents, photocopied journals, and other fugitive
sources.
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| Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period |
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Irish Women Poets of the
Romantic Period corrects a glaring omission in the literary history
of the British Isles-and of Romanticism generally. Comprising more
than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768
and 1842, the collection enables researchers to delve more deeply
than ever into this significant, but largely underappreciated, body
of work.
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| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period |
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This electronic
collection of over 60 volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, written
between 1789 and 1832, endeavors to fill a gap in our knowledge of
and access to this large and comprehensive body of work. Conventional
anthologies and histories of Scottish literature have been composed
largely of the works of male authors.
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| Latin American Women Writers |
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America is immense not only in its size-twice the area of Europe,
and stretching from the Rio Grande in Texas to Cape Horn in Patagonia-but
in its range of cultural and literary expression. In Latin American
Women Writers, Alexander Street presents an electronic collection
of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in
the 17th century forward to the present. Literary works, along with
memoirs and essays, comprise the 100,000 pages of works in their original
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| Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History |
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Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the
Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University. It offers students and researchers a window
to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday
to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence
describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth
and twentieth century American women. The project has wide ranging
interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major
historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests
and themes in women's lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures
and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel
industry.
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
is an online collection of nearly 4,700 books of high quality in the
humanities, published ranging from the 1843 through the present, accessible
through institutional and individual subscription. These titles are
offered by the ACLS in collaboration with thirty-one learned societies,
over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division
at the University of Michigan Library.
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