Women's studies archive. Female forerunners worldwide.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Gale (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Sources.

Women's studies.

Women--Political activity--Sources.

Women.

Women's rights--History--Sources.

Women's rights.

Women--Political activity.

Genre:

databases.

Databases

History

Sources

Databases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Frequency of update unknown

Other Title:

At head of title: Gale primary sources <June 24, 2022->

Female forerunners worldwide

Gale primary sources. Women's studies archive. Female forerunners worldwide

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Michigan : Gale, a Cengage Company, [2022]-

Summary:

"Female Forerunners Worldwide concerns women trailblazers, both individuals and organisations, who have impacted society through social reform, popular culture, healthcare and more. This fourth instalment of the Women's Studies Archive programme will host women's history collections focusing on advertising and advertising to minorities; birth control and sex education; the Civil Rights movement; healthcare and women in medicine especially nursing; religion and women's missionary work; migration; minority groups esp. African American and Jewish women; women in politics; prison reform particularly female criminals and women's philanthropic organisations to improve women's prisons; psychic investigations and the paranormal and women's rights and fight for suffrage. This instalment largely focuses on the US, Britain, and Australia but regional coverage also extends to New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Philippines, Jamaica, Germany, India, Norway, Canada and China. The collections are sourced from a variety of prestigious institutions including the Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress; Senate House Library, University of London; Royal College of Nursing; The National Archives at Kew, United Kingdom; State Library of New South Wales; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; London Metropolitan Archives; Amistad Research Center."

Contents:

Caroline Jones Collection

Women's Joint Congressional Committee

Papers of Louise Chandler Moulton

Ida Holden Papers

Edinburgh Seances

Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys-Davids Papers

Diaries about Spiritualism and Other Topics

Historical Nursing Journals

HM Prison Holloway Records from The National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom

Suffragettes, 1886-1935

Hidden Treasures of the Mitchell Library: Sydney Periodicals, 1886-2016

Australian and New Zealand Women's Organisations, 1835-2002

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Records, 1908-1951

Katz/Prince Collection, 1967-1973

Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Collection

Gwendolyn Bennett Papers, 1916-1981

Eusebia Cosme Papers, 1927-1973

HM Prison Holloway Records from the London Metropolitan Archives, London, United Kingdom

Papers of Mary McLeod Bethune, 1903-1962

Fredi Washington Papers, 1925-1979

Yale Divinity School Periodicals

Notes:

Contents viewed on 24 June 2022; title from resource home page.

OCLC:

1332961721

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license