Women's and Gender Studies: Primary Sources

• Check the Vogue Archive with issues from 1892 to present. It includes articles, images and advertising. You can do a keyword search (ex. lingerie, brassiere)

QUICK DATA

Statistics and data already complied.

• Statistical Abstract of the United States can be used as a gateway to the range of statistical information collected by the government.

• GenderStats is maintained and published by the World Bank and presents data on gender at the country level.

• CDC Reproductive Health

• U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, Statistics

• Women's rights country by country - an interactive tool by The Guardian. 

DATABASES

• UN WomenWatch provides statistics and indicators relating to gender equality and women's human rights.

• Lexis-Nexis Statistical Insight
  

• OECD Library  Select "Statistics" link.

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

• Women's History Sources at Special Collections and University Archives

IMAGE COLLECTONS

• ARTstor is an image library with more than 700,000 images provided by museums, academic institutions, etc.

• Oxford Art Online

DATABASES WITH PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL

• Everyday Life of Women in America, c.1800-1920 includes material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke U. and the NYPL.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Times to Present
• USC's Shoah Foundation Institution's Visual History Archive contains interviews of Jewish survivors and other persons with experience of the Holocaust. 
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 (Scholars Ed.)

DATABASES WITH DOCUMENTARY FILMS

• American History and Video
• Ethnographic Video Online
• Filmakers Library Online