Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
To link to this database use: https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/womensocialmovement
This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
Additional Information:
Resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Women and Social Movements contains the following resources:
Women and Social Movements contains the following resources:
- 124 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,731 documents, approximately 740 images, and over 600 links to other websites.
- More than 22,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements. These materials have been selected by the Editors for their relevance to the focus of the website. For a full bibliography click on the Primary Sources link
- A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
- A chronology of U.S. Women's History.
- Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the website's document projects.
Coverage: 1600-2000- Updates vary
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Producer: Alexander Street Press
Interlibrary Loan Type: Print-only Copy Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users