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Women's History and Literature Products by Alexander Street Press
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Publications on the Status of Women, 1960 - Present
Publications on the Status of Women provides a single, authoritative archive of primary materials documenting the status of women. Using reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemera produced by commissions in each of the 50 U.S. states, this rich resource has been virtually untapped before now. Users will find detailed, regional, contemporary snapshots of the evolution of women's rights during the latter part of the 20th century, including a wealth of statistics that are available nowhere else. The items are of historical interest in themselves, rich with personal testimony, chronologies, milestones, biographies, laws and legal challenges, recommendations, training instruction, and self-help guides.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States
Under the editorial direction of Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Sklar (Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender), this project includes
tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images. The project will continue to grow each year.
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Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, black women have needed to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. With this landmark collection, Alexander Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing scholars the voices of Africana women along with a tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and development of black people in the Diaspora.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Our flagship collection, this is a massive, ongoing project to catalog and index American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. Researchers will have access to 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts as facsimile images. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life, the writings are extensively indexed. Databases of women, sources, personal events, historical events, a geographical table, and other features make the writings useful to researchers in history, sociology, literature, genealogy, women's studies, and related fields.
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North American Women's Drama
This major new initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women from the United States and Canada, including the complete works of leading playwrights along with those of lesser-known but important writers. Many of the plays are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Relevant for the study of literature, women's studies, and the history of feminism.
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Latin American Women Writers
Latin 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. What we call "Latin American culture" is a composite of the rich and diverse output of 20 sovereign countries. Each had its unique struggle for independence and particular ways in which it evolved after the end of colonization. Literature is the best blueprint for following the social and cultural developments within these Ibero-American nations. In Latin American Women Writers, Alexander Street Press presents an electronic collection of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the seventeenth century forward to the present. The 100,000 pages of works in their original languages comprise literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays.
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years, are in this collection. Researchers can explore the thoughts, observations, and experiences of both famous and ordinary women on all subjects. The collection begins in 1500 and moves through to World War II. It includes never-before-published materials from the Imperial War Museum in England.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Edited by Nancy Kushigian and Stephen Behrendt, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period contains over 60 volumes of rare lyric poetry, together with reviews, essays and associated bibliographical and biographical material written between 1789 and 1832. Conventional anthologies and histories of Scottish literature have been composed largely of the works of male authors. Seldom have any but the most specialized twentieth-century literary histories of the period paid serious attention to the dozens of Scottish women poets who were active at the time and whose work and influence were in many instances familiar and admired by their male contemporaries. |
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Women's History and Literature Reference
Women's History and Literature Reference is a major new tool for scholarship in women's studies and related disciplines. It's an exhaustive database of quality biographies covering women from a wide range of ethnicities, time periods, and professions. At the same time, it's a unique index that links users to the primary materials that document women's lives. Scholars will move seamlessly from the biography to the artifacts that each woman created. The index itself will act as the successor publication to Andrea Hinding's seminal 1979 publication, Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. It will cover more than 20,000 collections from 3,500 repositories around the United States that have primary sources pertinent to the study of women. The database will include approximately 40,000 pages of major reference works licensed from a wide range of publishers.
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