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WOMEN'S HISTORY and LITERATURE
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Women and Social Movements,
International - PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
Backed by a global editorial board of more than 40 leading scholars from
around the world, this landmark collection of primary sources
illuminates a vast area of modern history. Through the writings of women
activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the conference
proceedings at which pivotal decisions were made and social movements
were born, this online collection traces the global history of women’s
international agendas and illuminates their enormous influence on the
course of events and shifts in attitudes that have defined modern life.
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
from the American Antiquarian Society,
1750-1950
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.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, Basic and
Scholar's Edition
Women and Social Movements in the U.S,
Basic Edition offers path-breaking document projects that
facilitate the use of documents to study all aspects of
American history from colonial times to the present. An
online journal and database that includes work by leading
and emerging scholars, the Basic Edition gives
scholars and students an especially rich opportunity to
study American history through women's eyes.
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 all
five volumes of the indispensable biographical dictionary
Notable American Women, and all publications of local, state,
and national commissions on the status of women since 1963.
This incomparable database includes 90,000 pages of
previously inaccessible data and statistics about American women
and American society since 1960.
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Irish
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.
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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 African 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 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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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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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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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 17th 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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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.
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