Library Catalogs

Uclid
http://uclid.uc.edu/search

Conduct author, title, keyword, or subject searches in Uclid , the University of Cincinnati's library online catalog, to locate books about women's studies topics in the University of Cincinnati's library collections.

OhioLINK
http://www.ohiolink.edu/

Conduct author, title, keyword, or subject searches in OhioLINK, the combined online catalogs of Ohio's colleges and universities, to locate books about women's studies topics in statewide library collections.

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/

Conduct author, title, keyword, or subject searches in PLCH's online catalog to locate books about women's studies topics in the public library's collections.   PLCH has particularly strong holdings in fiction written by women authors.

Cincinnati Historical Society Library
http://library.cincymuseum.org/

The Cincinnati Historical Society Library is particularly strong on material relating to Cincinnati's history in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, including materials about women and women's organizations.

Use these guides for links to online catalogs of other libraries, archives, and repositories of women's studies materials :

Women and Gender Project, University of Texas at San Antonio Additional Women's Collections
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/links.html

"This website is a project of the Archives for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Texas at San Antonio Library. It is a guide to websites of archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women. This list of women's history resources is not exhaustive or complete; many more libraries, archives and repositories hold primary source materials by and about women than are listed here.

This list represents institutions that have websites with information about collections from women's organizations or about individual women. This list does not include websites that provide general descriptions of the repository, but do not provide information about the collections held."

WSSLINKS: Archival Sites for Women's Studies
http://home.gwu.edu/~mfpankin/archwss.htm

This site is developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Digitized Collections

African American Women Writers of the 19 th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

"African American Women Writers of the 19 th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19 th- century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/Works/index.htm

The University of California-Davis provides links to the text of British women romantic poets.

A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

"The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women . . A major focus of the Celebration is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works."

Chawton House Library and Study Centre: Novels Online
http://www.chawton.org/novels.php

"Novels On-line is an ongoing project offering full-text transcripts of some of the rarer books in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women's writing in the period 1600 to 1830"

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

Since 1995 Diotima has been an online interdisciplinary resource of materials relating to matters of gender in the ancient Mediterranean world.   The site includes numerous links to additional online resources and publishes an anthology http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology of translated texts.

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

"The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.  The items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library ."

Early Modern French Women Writers
http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/frenwom.htm

"Working with faculty and students in the departments of French & Italian and History, Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center has developed an initiative--in consultation with the internationally- known ARTFL Project--to digitize texts by women writers in Early Modern France. At present we focus on women writers of the 15th-17th centuries. Our early list has included Christine de Pizan, Diane de Poitiers, Louise Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, and Pernette du Guillet; we also have a working list of 16 other women writers from the period."

Emory Women Writers Resource Project
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

This site provides online access to a collection of 75 works written by women authors dating from the 17 th through the 20 th centuries.  

Gerritsen Collection
http://gerritsen.chadwyck.com/

The Gerritsen Collection contains 4,471 books published between 1543 and 1945 written in 15 different languages.   These books document the lives and experiences of women in both the public and private spheres.

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

" This sourcebook attempts to present online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas."  

Women Romantic-Era Writers
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eaezacweb/wrew.htm

This site provides electronic texts of women Romantic-Era authors.

Reading Women Writers and African Literatures
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChomeEN.html

" This site proposes an overview of African women writers writing in French. It provides an opportunity to find out more about the authors' life and interests and to get acquainted with their novels, short stories, plays and poetry."   Some titles are translated into English.

Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women's Writing
http://humanities.byu.edu/sophie/index.html

This site is devoted to recovering the printed works of German women authors published between 1740 and 1923.

Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eletrs/vwwp/

"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm

"Voices From the Gaps is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America."

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/index.html

" Organized around 52 document projects with over 1250 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History."

Women Working, 1870-1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

" Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression."

Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930
http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/womtrav.htm

"Working with faculty and students in the departments of English, French & Italian, History & Women's Studies, Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center has chosen as one segment of its Women's Studies Digitization Project selected travel writings by women in the period 1830-1930. We include women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. Our project begins in 1830, so as not to conflict with the Women Writers Project at Brown University. Although not limited to the US, our decision to emphasize American travel represents an effort to complement Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project (which focuses on British women, 1830-1901)."

Bibliographic Guides and Links to Other Digitized Resources Relating to Women

AfricaBib.org
http://www.africabib.org/

" The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database).  You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography)."

Africa South of the Sahara: African Women
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/women.html

" An annotated guide to internet resources on women in Africa"

American Women A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

" The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site."

American Women's History: A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

"American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources."

Black American Feminism
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/

This site offers " an extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines. References date back to the early nineteenth century.."

Core Lists in Women's Studies Association of Colleges and Research Libraries Women's Studies Section
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm and http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/ACRLWSS/

"These Core Lists of books in women's studies are intended to assist women's studies librarians and collection development librarians in building women's studies collections. Because the lists include only books currently in print, they also serve as a guide to teaching faculty in selecting available course readings. The focus of most of the lists is on women in the United States. Each list consists of 20 to 75 titles, and the most important five to ten titles are starred. The lists are updated each January. Titles no longer in print are dropped, and newly published titles added."

Early Modern Women Database
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3

" The Early Modern Women Database provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 and includes links to Web sites about the medieval period and 19th Century as well. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians of the University of Maryland Libraries."

Feminist Theory Web Site
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/

"The Feminist Theory Website provides research materials and information for students, activists, and scholars interested in women's conditions and struggles around the world."

Women, Enterprise, and Society
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/

This is a guide to resources in the business manuscripts collection at Harvard's Baker Library.

Special Digital Projects Relating to Women

      Some of these sites require subscription.

The MARGOT Group
http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/english.html

" Middle Ages and Renaissance Research Group-Computers and Text: The MARGOT group analyses and publishes texts from the Early Modern period electronically and in paper format. .As a resource for research, the MARGOT group is creating a database of French texts to which are added Latin texts, which have often served as sources ."

The Orlando Project
http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/main_page.htm

"The Orlando Project is a collaborative undertaking, involving participants from universities in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia. It is writing the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles. At the same time, it is conducting an experiment in humanities computing and providing both training and scholarly community for graduate students. The project will provide an overarching account of women's writing across the centuries. This will appear in the form of three individually authored volumes of history together with an extensive, collaboratively authored, electronic textbase."

Perdita: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations
http://human.ntu.ac.uk/research/perdita/index.html  

" The Perdita Project, established in January 1997 by Nottingham Trent University, has purchased a microfilm collection of about 400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles. These manuscripts were compiled during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and consist of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. The aim is to complete a catalogue, to be published on the Internet, which offers bibliographical information and detailed descriptions of contents for the information of historians and literary scholars. The catalogue will also include the team's research on the manuscripts and their compilers."

Women's Writers Project
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

" The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted
to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts
by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide
audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research
on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship."

Microfilm Collections

Some important microfilm collections relating to women in the Langsam Library include:

American Women's Diaries:                                                                                      

New England Langsam Microfilm 1038

Southern Langsam Microfilm 1129

Western Langsam Microfilm 1190 and Guide Micro Z1251.W5R639 1997

Selected diaries filmed from the collection at the American Antiquarian Society's Library.

Balch, Emily Greene.   Papers Langsam Microfilm 1165                                 

American pacifist and Nobel Laureate

Bennett, Gwendolyn.   Gwendolyn Bennett Papers, 1916-1981 Langsam Microfilm 5502 Reels 1-2 and Guide Micro PS153.N5G85 1996                  

This is a collection of Gwendolyn Bennett's papers filmed from the holdings in the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.   A poet, Bennett was active in the
Harlem Renaissance period.   She was also a graphic artist and a political activist
during the 1930s and 1940s.

Child, Lydia Marie Francis.   The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child Langsam Microfiche 330 and Guide Micro E449.C515

Colonial Discourses Series One: Women, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914 Langsam Microfilm Not Yet Cataloged         

This is a microfilm collection of women's travel accounts relating to their experiences in
India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada.

Columbia University Oral History Collection Langsam Microfiche 690 and Langsam Microfiche 301 and Cumulative Index Parts I-V Micro Z1361.C6C65 1985                                                                 

Some interviews cataloged separately in Uclid with different microfiche numbers. These sets are microfiche transcripts of oral interviews conducted by Columbia University. Some notable women (Frances Perkins, Virginia Durr, Mary Vorse, etc.) are included in this set.

Concordances to the Novels of Virginia Woolf:

The Waves Langsam Microfiche 748

Between the Acts Langsam Microfiche 744

To the Lighthouse Langsam Microfiche 745

The Years Langsam Microfiche 749    

Mrs. Dalloway Langsam Microfiche 746

Orlando Langsam Microfiche 747

Cornell University Collection of Women's Rights Pamphlets, 1814-1912 Langsam Microfiche 83 and Guide Langsam Ref Z7961.C6y

Cosme y Almanza, Eusebia Andriana.   Eusebia Cosme papers, 1927-1973 and Guide Micro PS153.N5G85 1996                                                                              

This is a collection of Afro-Cuban actress and professional reciter Eusebia Cosme's
papers filmed from the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Hamer, Fannie Lou. Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1966-1978 Langsam Microfilm 1058 and Guide Micro E185.97.H25A45 1985

This collection consists of personal and business papers of the noted African American civil rights activist.

This set contains microfilm copies of the newspapers, journals, and newsletters from the women's movement in the holdings of the International Women's History Archive.   Most of the material dates from the late 1960s to mid 1970s.

 This collection consists of all printed books printed through 1920 in the collections of the Schlesinger Library and selected resources from the collections of the Sophia Smith Collection and the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection.   It also includes periodicals, photographs, pamphlets, and selected manuscripts.   The collection is cataloged in Uclid.

League of Women Voters. Papers of the League of Women Voters 1918-1974 Langsam Microfilm 1050 and Guides Micro JF848.L4 1985; Micro JF848.L43 1986; Micro JF848.S35 1986

Roosevelt, Eleanor.   The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Langsam Microfilm 1131 and Guide Micro E807.1.R48G85 1986

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady and Anthony, Susan B.   The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Langsam Microfilm 1188 and Guide Micro Z6616.S689P37 1992 co.2

The Suffragist, 1913-February, 1921 Langsam Microfilm 1124, reels 151-153     Publication of the National Woman's Party

Titles in this collection are now cataloged separately in Uclid.   The collection contains some women's publications such as Off Our Backs .   Some of the titles in this collection are indexed in Alternative Press Index Langsam Ref AI3.A27

These records are filmed from the holding at the National Archives.   They cover matters relating to child welfare, child legislation, and maternal and child health.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI File on the American Churchwomen Killed in El Salvador, December 1980 Langsam Microfilm 1187 Reels 1 and 2 and Guide Micro HV8079.A74G85 1990

United States. Women's Bureau.   Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1918-1965 Part 1 Langsam Microfilm 1153 and Guide Micro HD6093.H93 1982

The Woman's Peace Party was founded in 1915 at a conference called by Jane Addams and Carrie Chapman Catt to oppose militarism.   In 1919 the Woman's Peace Party became the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

This is a collection of microfilmed clippings relating to women's health issues and care taken from the files of the Women's History Research Center that date from 1968 to 1974.  

This is another clipping archive microfilmed from the Women's History Research Center's files.   The center concentrated on gathering information about areas of law relating to women and women's issues for which there was no case precedent.   The material dates from the late 1960s to mid 1970s.

Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910: Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women Langsam Microfilm 5561 and Guide Micro Z7964.G7W65 1996

Founded by Jane Addams in 1915, this microfilm collection contains records from the League's Swiss headquarters and includes records of some 75 national sections located throughout the world.

The U.S. section of WILPF was an outgrowth of the Woman's Peace Party, whose materials are also available in the library in a microfilm collection. The U.S. section of WILF worked on issues of peace, demilitarization, and social justice.

This set includes most of the official documents and related papers resulting from the conference.