Literature: Diversity: Women & Gender

Primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, & popular history

Primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender, 1500s-

Archival collections concerning women's history, 1800-1900s

Documents the representations & lived experiences of gender roles from the 1800s-

Women's rights movement: voting rights, national politics, & reproductive rights

Primary sources provide an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to gender & sexuality, 1786-1970s

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The collection currently includes document projects and archives and full-text documents.

Includes the full-text of books, such as the Cambridge Companions to:
Gay and Lesbian Writing, Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, Modernist Women Writers, Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789, and more.

Full-text of articles for the full-runs of many seminal journals. See all JSTOR's Feminist & Women's Study titles.

A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.

Modern Language Association's index to literature

Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations. PQ1L provides useful information for researching literature. It includes these collections: Black Women Writers, Latin American Women Writers, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.

Find books, journals, and archival collections from libraries around the world. Request items through interlibrary loan. Great for English majors because many records include a book's table of contents.