Women's History and Literature

Individual DVDs and Streaming Video

Alexander Street offers a variety of videos in women’s studies in both DVD and streaming formats and is the exclusive source for streaming video from Filmakers Library.

Black Women Writers

Black Women Writers African, African American, and Diaspora

Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The database lets researchers view history in the context of women’s thoughts – their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

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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.

Latin American Women Writers

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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.

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society

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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. Part of the Letters and Diaries Online package.

North American Women's Drama

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This major 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

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Our flagship collection, North American Women's Letters and Diares, is a massive project, cataloging and indexing 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. Part of the Letters and Diaries Online package.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

"Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is recommended for larger libraries, both academic and public, supporting humanities research, and is another example of the positive collaborative efforts between librarians, scholars, and Alexander Street Press. Although the content may not have the broad appeal of some of the other ASP products, the quality of the data and the access it provides to this niche of English literature is invaluable."
 

 -- Helene Williams, Collection Development, Widener Library, Harvard University (Library Journal, 7/18/02)
 

South and Southeast Asian Literature

South and Southeast Asian Literature

South and Southeast Asian Literature displays the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness of writers who are negotiating life in a transnational world and multiple cultural identities. Scholars of literature, anthropology, linguistics, postcolonial theory and criticism, history, politics, and culture will find the collection rich in insights into modern experiences and their traditional connections.

VAST: Academic Video Online

vast academic video online

VAST brings you content from the BBC, PBS, Arthaus, CBS, Kino International, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel, Opus Arte, The Cinema Guild, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and hundreds of other partners. Newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recording, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage come together in a vast and powerful collection - 20,000 full-length videos by 2013.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000

women and social movements

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.

Women and Social Movements, International

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Backed by a global editorial board of 130 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 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.