Women's History and Literature

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	WOMEN'S HISTORY AND LITERATURE

	Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950--PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT High-quality images of original manuscripts, covering 200 years, extensively indexed and online for the first time comprise this collection. In many cases, we also include the replies, from both men and women, placing the letters in their full context. Alexander Street is excited to offer this collection from the American Antiquarian Society, extensively indexed and online for the first time.

	Women and Social Movements in the United States, Basic and Scholar's Edition Women and Social Movements in the U.S. Basic Edition provides you with deep insight into the multiplicity of American women’s activism in public life. A variety of primary source documents including images, scholarly essays, book reviews and more allow for a thorough investigation of the changes in American culture beginning in the 1600s and continuing through today. The new Scholar's Edition features enhanced content and search tools that make it ideal for research and scholarship. It includes the Basic Edition plus 75,000 additional pages of previously inaccessible data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963.

	The "Second Wave" and Beyond: a Women and Social Movements community The "Second Wave" and Beyond is a free, online scholarly community associated with Women and Social Movements. Three scholar-editors host this online community, and more than 150 people have become registered members so far. Participants analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories; collaborate on new directions for historical research; share bibliographies, unpublished papers, chronologies, images, oral histories, links to external Web sites, book reviews, reviews of new Web resources, syllabi, and other materials; and explore new ways in publishing, writing, and recording the history of contemporary feminism. Content is continually updated through member participation, with many rare and otherwise unavailable items added regularly. Visit it free now at http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com.
	I rish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This collection comprises more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, a significant, but largely underappreciated body of work. Most of the texts are rare, existing in print in fewer than five libraries in the world. Along with the poetic texts are biographical and critical essays contributed by the world’s foremost poetry scholars and other supporting resources.
	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 African women along with a tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and development of black people in the Diaspora.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	Black Short Fiction and Folklore Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 8,000 works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, from the earliest times to the present. Drawn from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors, much of the collection is fugitive, ephemeral, or previously unpublished. It presents a variety of traditions ranging from early African oral traditions to today’s hip-hop and covers fables, parables, ballads, folktales, short stories, trickster tales, story cycles, and novellas. For scholars of history, sociology, anthropology, and literature. Click here for details.
	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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