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Research Resources
Organisations and Institutions
Journals
Conferences, Seminars, etc
Menstruation Sites
E-mail lists
Women's Library
(formerly Fawcett Library)
A beloved and cherished resource
and now hosts Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles
Images from the Women's Library: Suffrage Collection and Suffrage Banners
The Feminist Archive (Bristol); and see Feminist Archive North
Institute of Education (University of London)
Useful source for archives of women in education
Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project
at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries
A resource guide, mostly but not entirely repositories in the USA
International Information Center and Archives of the Women's Movement, Amsterdam
Virtual Library of Women's History at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, including VIVA: a bibliography of women's history
Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians, edited by Sybil Oldfield.
From History to Herstory: Yorkshire Women's Lives Online, 1100 to the present
The Mundus Gateway: missionary-related research resources (UK)
The Old Dyke
A useful personal website on lesbians in history
Women of Brighton:
What it says. Surprising how many notable women have had some connection with the town. [Jan 2011 - site appears to be defunct]
gender Inn, the Women's and Gender Studies Database on the Internet
A searchable database providing access to over 7,500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature
Australian Women's Archives Project
Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales
Classic Feminist Writings from 'the Second Wave':
useful resource for now-hard-to-come-by texts from the 60s and 70s
Susan B Anthony: Celebrating "A Heroic Life"
Judy Greenway's research on feminism, anarchafeminism, and sex and gender
suffragette.org.uk [Jan 2011 - site has been suspended]
Women and Social Movements, International— 1840 to Present
'a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. We will be adding regularly to the database to bring it to its final complement of 150,000 pages of documents.'
FRAGEN: Core European feminist texts online
Women's History Sources
'a collaborative blog that serves as a current awareness tool for anyone
who is interested in primary sources at archives, historic sites and
museums, and libraries. Although there is an emphasis on U.S. women's
history, our goal is for the blog to be international in scope.'
See also Some favourite archives and resources
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Organisations and Institutions
Women's History Network
UK Network for all women interested in women's history.
And there's also the Women's History Scotland which is very lively.
WISE: Women's International Studies Europe
International Federation for Research in Women's History
The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
Feminist Review Trust:
funding research and other scholarly activity on all aspects of gender. Committed to the advancement of public understanding of gender in all social relations.
Strathclyde Centre in Gender Studies
Institute for Feminist Theory and Research
Feminist Crime Research Network
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS), University of Leeds
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin
Association for Women's Rights in Development
AHRB Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
A partnership between the Universities of Kent, Keele and Westminster.
Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society
University of Wales Swansea
Institute for Gender Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Società Italiana delle Storiche
Italian Association of Woman Historians (site is in Italian) [Jan 2011 site appears to be defunct]
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter
Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality
Roehampton University
History of Feminism Network
Celebrating, exploring and debating the history of feminism
History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland
Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies
MATILDA: the first Joint European Master Degree in Women’s and Gender History
Being set up by consortium of five European universities
Gender Institute, London School of Economics
Women's Studies Group, 1558-1837
Femininity and Masculinity Project
Women, Internationalisms, and Gender 1848 to the Present
Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities, Durham University
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gender forum: an internet platform for gender and women's studies. Online Journal
Journal of International Women's Studies
'an on-line, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives'
Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
published at the University of Melbourne: 'a forum for the publication of new scholarly work by both established historians and post-graduate students. It is now published annually. While Lilith is based within the History Department at the University of Melbourne, it publishes diverse articles grounded in research undertaken in different countries. These articles deal with historical subject matter that is of interest internationally and crosses the spectrums of time periods and what is understood as 'feminist history'
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'
Aspasia
'Aspasia is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring
out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women’s and
gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern,
and South Eastern Europe'.
L'HOMME. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft/European Journal of Feminist History
'an interface between various cultures of linguistic and academic cultures and takes various topics and regional contexts into account.'
The Latchkey: A Journal of New Woman Studies
Clio. Histoire, Femmes et Sociétiés
HerStoria magazine and Discover Women's History Web
Journal of Research on Women and Gender: peer-reviewed online journal
Assuming Gender: An international, interdisciplinary journal
RE/VISIONIST
'an online publication created by students of the Sarah Lawrence College Women’s History Graduate Program. In the interest of fostering dialogue, RE/VISIONIST aims to promote a critical analysis of history and contemporary issues through the lens of multiple feminisms. We focus on the intersections of lived realities and histories, such as the experiences related to race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability. We strive to keep the question, “who gets to write history?” on the table.'
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
'a new twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research'
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Indecency: A Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1-3, 2012
Women, The Arts, and Activism
Sarah Lawrence College, March 2-3, 2012
The Art of Gender in Everyday Life IX
Idaho State University, March 7-9, 2012
Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Region
Wednesday, March 7- Friday, March 9, 2012, American University of Sharjah
Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the Atlantic World
College of Charleston,Charleston, SC, March 9-10, 2012
Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort
A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers
University of Huddersfield, 9 March 2012
Women and Media Conference
9th-10th March 2012, Queen’s University Belfast
Intimate Lives
International Women's Day Conference 2012
University of Southern Denmark, Kolding on 10 March 2012
Gendered Borders and Queer Frontiers
Interdisciplinary graduate student conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 16-17, 2012
‘Women, Health and Welfare’
WHN Southern Branch Spring Meeting
Saturday 17th March 2012, Kingston University
Thinking Through Time and History in Feminism - Colloquium
23 March 2012 Birkbeck, University of London
“Failure is Impossible”: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminism
The 19th Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
University of Rochester, March 23rd & 24th, 2012
Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900
29–30 March 2012, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
European Social Science History Conference
Glasgow, 11-14 Apr 2012
Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
13-14 April 2012, Newcastle University
W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary
British Library, London, 16 and 17 April 2012
History of Women's Health Conference
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 18 April 2012
4th Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine
6th May – 8th May 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
Women’s Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War: Moving Across Borders
An interdisciplinary, international conference
Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota, USA, 26th to 28th May 2012
Indiana University, Bloomington, 20-22 Apr 2012
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
Landmarks
Millennium Harvest House, Boulder, Colorado,June 7 – 10, 2012
Women in Magazines
Kingston University, London, 22-23 June 2012
International Conference
NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II
13 - 15 Sept 2012, University of Vienna
Selling Sex in the City: Prostitution in World Cities, 1600 to the Present
14-16 February 2013, Amsterdam/The Hague
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2014 at the University of Toronto
Additional conferences which may be of interest can be found at Useful Links: History of Sexuality: Conferences
[Research Resources] [Organisations and Institutions] [Journals] [Conferences] [E-mail lists] [Menstruation sites]
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
The Museum of the Menovulatory Lifetime
The Keeper: reusable menstrual cup
Women's Environmental Network Seeing Red: sanitary protection and the environment (pdf)
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
H-WOMEN e-mail discussion list
Perhaps more strongly orientated toward North American women's history than UK or Europe,
but definitely of interest.
The Women's History Network has its own mailing list.
Scholars of Single Women Network: includes news, resources as well as list.
WHOM: Listserv for Women Historians of Medicine
Gender-related electronic forums
INTERNET RESOURCES ON WOMEN: Using Electronic Media in Curriculum
Transformation
Three extremely useful compendious, annotated and frequently updated pages by Joan Korenman
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