Women and Social Movements, International – 1840 to Present (Web)

– Subscription required –

Since January 2011 the editors have published six installments of this new archive, which is now complete with 150,000 pages of primary documents. It includes both published and manuscript materials generated by women’s participation in international conferences and organizations over a period of 170 years, from missionary and abolitionist activities in the first half of the nineteenth century to women’s NGO activism in the early twenty-first century. The editors have also published twenty-five secondary articles by scholars working in fields related to the sources in the archive. These essays place the primary materials within a broader interpretive context and offer suggestions on how best to use these online resources. Finally, they have posted on the database videos of seven oral history interviews with activists from the UN Women’s Conferences held between Mexico city in 1975 and Beijing in 1995. These activists also participated in two stimulating sessions at the 2011 Berkshire Conference on Women’s History and videos of those sessions are also available on WASM International.

Alexander Street Press is making this resource available to libraries through subscription or purchase plans. Your acquisitions librarian might be interested in one of these options. He or she should contact Eileen Lawrence (Lawrence@astreetpress.com) at Alexander Street Press for subscription information and/or to request a free trial of Women and Social Movements International. Please let the editors know your reactions to Women and Social Movements International.

FUTURE ISSUES of WASM: Future document projects in the pipeline include:

• The Prison Letters of Angela Davis
• Protestant Women and Japanese Incarceration during World War II
• The Around-the-World Trip of Carrie Chapman Catt and Aletta Jacobs, 1911-12
• Women in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• The Progressive activism of Victoria Earle Matthews
• The Harlem YWCA and Black Women’s Activism
• The California Commission on the Status of Women

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

Co-editors Kitty Sklar & Tom Dublin welcome new proposals for document projects or archives. The national editorial board oversees a peer review system that evaluates prospective contributions and offers editorial support to author/editors. If you are interested in preparing a document project based on your research, they would be glad to exchange email with you about your work and the submission process. Please contact Tom Dublin at tdublin@binghamton.edu or Kitty Sklar at kksklar@binghamton.edu.

As you work with the websites, please share your reactions with the editors and let them know any ideas you may have about the websites.

Source: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU