The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.
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The ArQuives (formerly known as the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives) has a mandate " to acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBT people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada." The ArQuives also maintains non-archival collections, which include a research library, international subject files, and an international collection of queer periodicals.
A guide to the resources available in the University Archives and Special Collections on Gender and Sexual Diversity, including the Neil Richards collection, which includes the records of many gay and lesbian individuals and organizations, magazines and newsletters published in LGBT communities, collections of lesbian and gay pulp literature, documentation about theatrical cross-dressing, and novels and nonfiction published before the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the birth of the modern Gay Rights movement.
"Atria is an information center and archive where the history and cultural heritage of women, their organizations and their movements are collected, preserved and made available for study." This institute results from the merger of "Aletta, Institute for Women’s History" and "E-Quality, Information Centre for Gender, Family and Diversity Issues".
A collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence, bringing "the personal experiences of nearly 500 women to researchers, students, and general readers."
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A collection of original documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It has five thematic sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, The Body. Contains material from the John Johnson collection of ephemera, from boy's public schools and female women's colleges, diaries, periodicals, commonplace books, novels, ballads, pamphlets, poetry, etc.
License Information: Access to Defining Gender is generously provided until 2014 by Adam Matthew Publications Ltd. in recognition of the work of Dr. Christopher Kent, Professor of History, as a Contributing Editor. This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) for its Digital Content Infrastructure Project. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
The Herstory web site, a University of Saskatchewan digital collection, samples the pages of Herstory: The Canadian Women's Calendar from 1974 to 1995.
"Collects and preserves any materials that are relevant to the lives and experiences of Lesbians: books, magazine, journals, news clippings (from establishment, Feminist or lesbian media), bibliographies, photos, historical information, tapes, films, diaries, oral histories, poetry and prose, biographies, autobiographies, posters, graphics and other memorabilia."
A collection of over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries of women writing in North America.
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"ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers."
"Includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and ... thirty thousand dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts)."
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A collection of documents, images, and links to other websites, covering the history of women in social movements in the United States.
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A full-text collection of early womens writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
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