Library Guides: Women's & Gender Studies Research Guide: Finding Primary Sources in Women's &amp; Gender Studies

Finding Primary Sources in Women's & Gender Studies

Listed below are some resources with primary sources focused on women's and gender studies. The research guide for History has some tips for finding primary sources and you can always ask a librarian.

LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Documents the LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day.
Women and Social Movements, International (1840 to present) This link opens in a new window
Primary sources including correspondence, diary entries, memoirs, pamphlets, and proceedings of women’s international conferences, focusing on women's international activism since the mid-nineteenth century.
Women and Social Movements in the United States (1600-2000) This link opens in a new window
Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.

1977 International Women's Year (IWY) Oral History Collection (USC University Libraries)
Interviewees in this collection offer first-hand accounts of the conference and discuss issues relating to healthcare, employment, reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and more — issues impacting women in the United States in the 1970s.
Women's History: USC University Libraries, Digital Collections
Wide range of digitized materials relating to women's history from many of the Libraries' special collections
Herstory (Microfilm Collection).
Hundreds of periodicals from the International Women’s History Periodical Archive

History of Women, Guide to the Microfilm Collection
Call Number: Microforms (Level 5) Z7965 .H577 1983b
Books, pamphlets, tracts, periodicals,diaries and and other records on women in civil rights, education, humanities, fine arts, birth control, government, law and medicine before 1920. Search Find It@USC Libraries for materials in this collection or consult the guide.

South Carolina gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer collection, 1975-2012.
Click to see the description of the collection. Most materials stored offsite; advanced notice required. Contact the Manuscripts Division, South Caroliniana Library.