LibGuides: History: 79-331 Body Politics: Women and Health in America: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

For additional primary sources, see Women's History: Primary Sources

History of Science, Health, and Women
HQ1180 .H58 MFILM-3. Collection of 19th & early 20th century books, pamphlets, lectures, reports &periodicals (e. g. Birth Control Review, 1917-1940) dealing with women's education & participation in science, medicine, midwifery, home health care & personal health (menstruation, pregnancy, birth, nursing, etc.), as well as social movements affecting women. Guide

North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Search and display over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Part of Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online.

Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
HUNT STACKS-2 HQ764 .S3 A25 2003 VOLS. 1-3
Publisher's description: The birth control crusader,
feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the
most controversial and compelling figures in the
twentieth century. These letters and other writings, including diaries, journals, articles, and speeches, most of which have never before been published, have been selected and assembled with an eye to telling the story of a remarkable life, punctuated by arrests and
imprisonments, exile, love affairs, and a momentous
personal loss--a life consumed
Margaret Sanger Papers Project: Documents Online
The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
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Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online Package This link opens in a new window
This full text database brings together the entire family of letter and diary databases from Alexander Street Press:
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the Am
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
Search or browse 76 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online, more than 30,000 pages of documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, teaching tools with lesson ideas, and quarterly news from the archives about U. S. women's history. 5,000 pages of documents will be added annually.

Subject Guide

Charlotte Kiger Price

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Subjects: History, Language & Linguistics, Religion, Women's Studies