Women
518. AMERICAN WOMEN’S DIARIES (NEW ENGLAND). CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 8870-8871; 8876-8877 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 21 R INDEX OR GUIDE: Entered in Online Catalog by name of person. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Includes Susan Forbes, Ruth Bascom, Caroline White among others. SUBJECTS: Women – United States
519. BIBLIOFEM. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 4x6 S249 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: INDEX OR GUIDE: HQ 1121 .B542x 1979 Ref. Table 3A. Bibliofem Subject Index. An alphabetical subject index. It provides the classification numbers (modified Dewey system) used to arrange the entries on the fiche; for details on use of this collection, see Alan Pritchard, Using Bibliofem: A Guide (HQ 1121 .B54x Ref. Table 3A). The last frame of each fiche includes an index. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: A catalog and bibliography on microfiche to the library collections of the Fawcett Library and the Equal Opportunities Commission (both in London). Includes references to books and reports on all aspects of women, including career information and childrens’ books. Covers material from the 19th century to the 1970’s, published in the U. S., Great Britain and other countries. Materials are listed by author, title, series and by a classification based on Dewey. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – Bibliography; Great Britain; 19c; 20c
520. GERRITSEN COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY, 1534-1940. CALL NUMBER: University of Arizona Microfiche 992 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: INDEX OR GUIDE: Indexes: 1) By Language: English and West European; includes author, title, subject and chronological indexes; 2) Subject Series. Thirty six selected topics, such as social conditions, war, prostitution, education, employment; 3) Serials. Full bibliographical information on 265 serials and periodicals, including author, title and subject indexes. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: A massive source for the study of international women’s history and the feminist movement. SUBJECTS: Women – History; Europe; United States; 16c; 17c; 18c; 19c; 20c
521. HERSTORY MICROFILM COLLECTION. CALL NUMBER: Cataloged Separately (Do word search in Online Library (Request at Interlibrary Loan). NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: INDEX OR GUIDE: HQ 1426 .W6652x Vol. 1-2 Ref. Table 3A. Guide to the Microfilm Edition: Supplementary Set; Also, Herstory Microfilm Collection Table of Contents (HQ 1426 .W665x Ref.) Table 3A. Lists the publications in three sections: Newspapers; Journals; and Newsletters. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Selected periodicals from the collection of the Women’s History Research Center, Berkeley, California. These are publications of women’s liberation and other organizations of all kinds: civic, religious, professional, etc., published both in the U. S. and in other countries. Some of the organizatiions represented are: Daughters of Bilitis; National Women’s Political Caucus; Women’s Equity Action League; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Women Strike for Peace. ASU owns seven of the journals and newsletters, is at the University of Arizona. Use the guides noted above to identify needed titles. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – Periodicals; 20c; 1960s
522. HISTORY OF WOMEN ON MICROFILM. CALL NUMBER: University of Arizona Library (Request at Interlibrary Loan). Monographs: Microfilm 4300; Periodicals: Microfilm 4797. NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 995 R INDEX OR GUIDE: The History of Women: an Alphabetical Index to the Microfilm Collection (U of A). (separate indexes for monographs and periodicals). Indexes are arranged by main entry (author or title) and give brief bibliographic descriptions with reel number on which the item is located. A consecutively assigned number enables one to find items on a particular reel. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Selected books, pamphlets, tracts, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs and other records published prior to 1920. The main body of the material reflects the mores of the 18th and 19th centuries, the focus being on women’s domestic roles and religious outlook and practices. The emphasis broadens through the 19th century to include female education, legal rights in marriage and divorce, as well as the active participation of women in war, the suffrage and anti-slavery movements and rehabilitation of female prisoners. Over 80% of the material is in English, and the emphasis is on the history of women in the United States, although some material on women in other countries, particularly western Europe, is included. Based primarily on the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. Arranged by type of material: printed books (monographs); pamphlets; periodicals; manuscripts; and photographs. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – History; Western Europe; 18c; 19c; 20c
523. HOOKER, ISABELLA BEECHER. PROJECT. A MICROFICHE EDITION OF HER PAPERS AND SUFFRAGE-RELATED CORRESPONDENCE. CALL NUMBER: Microfiche 4x6 3018 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 144 F INDEX OR GUIDE: HQ1413 H65 M3x Stacks SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Papers of feminist and leader in National Women Suffrage Association. Over 1700 documents, including correspondence from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Olympia Brown and Matilda J. Gage. SUBJECTS: Hooker, Isabella Beecher; Women; National Woman Suffrage Association; 19c; 20c; United States
524. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS. PAPERS. 1918-1974, PTS. 1-2. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 8854 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 64 R INDEX OR GUIDE: JK 1881 L48x Guide Vol. 1-2 Micro Ref. General introduction; history; bibliography; description of collection; reel guide. No subject index. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Through the years, the League has been rigorously non-partisan, but has consistently taken strong stands on the major questions of the day and has labored aggressively for its causes. Documents the evolution of the League’s identity and goals. Pt. 1: Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committees: minutes and related documents; Pt. 2: Series A & B: Transcripts and records of national conventions and of general councils. These are the central organizational records from its inception through 1974. The material is arranged chronologically. The minutes contain extensive discussion and supporting documentation which reveals the process of shaping the national program; the role of the Board of Directors in implementing the will of the membership. Also contains information on the structure and finances of the organization, including sources of income. [ASU lacks Part III: National Office Subject Index, 1920-1932; 34 reels] SUBJECTS: United States -–Women; 20c
525. MICROSOURCES—WOMEN’S HISTORY: A LITERATURE OF STRUGGLE. CALL NUMBER: HQ 1154 .M46x Microform Mixed Media Shelf NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 200 F INDEX OR GUIDE: Women’s History: A Literature of Struggle. A Program Guide is in binder with fiche. It has introductions for each section and a list of the filmed books (with suggested questions for discussion) associated with each of the five sections. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Contains 55 English language books selected from the Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History dealing with women’s history from 1845-1940. The fiche are arranged in five categories: (A) Education, which deals with the crusade for higher standards for women’s education and education provided by clubs and associations; (B) Emancipatiion from restrictions imposed by social convention; (C) Equal Rights, including right to vote and other legal rights, e.g., marriage, divorce, property, contracts); (D) Women’s work, dealing with the professions and occupations formerly closed to them; and (E) Women’s lives, biographies, memoirs and autobiographies. Includes writings of both men and women, feminist and anti-feminist. Representative authors are: Maria G. Grey, Catherine E. Beecher, Julia A. Sprague, Jane Croley, Elizabeth C. Stanton, Frances Maule, Carry A. Nation, Florence Nightingale among others. Individual titles are not listed in the online catalog. For information on additional material on microfilm, see Yvonne Knudson, Sources for Women’s History in the Microtext Department of Library at Texas A & M University (ERIC Microfiche ED 286 530). This bibliography lists works related to women’s studies in a number of microform collections: e.g., Early American Imprints (ASU); Western Americana (Northern Arizona University); ERIC (ASU); Radical Pamphlet Literature (ASU); Microform Publications in Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ASU); American Culture Series (University of Arizona); and Sabin Collection (Northern Arizona University). SUBJECTS: United States – Women; 19c; 20c
526. NATIONAL WOMAN’S PARTY PAPERS: PART II, THE SUFFRAGE YEARS, 1913-1920. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 7013 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 97 R INDEX OR GUIDE: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition. (JK 1881 .N372x Ref.) Guide contains history of Party, description and arrangement of papers, a name index to correspondents and a reel guide. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Correspondence, administrative files, printed matter and photographs. This set comprises Part II of National Woman’s Party Papers. See separate entry for Part I. These materials detail the organizational development of the NWP and the strategy of the party’s suffrage campaign. Field reports and correspondence from NWP organizers concern the 1914, 1916, and 1918 political campaigns, the organization of state chapters, the ratification campaign and lobbying efforts with Congress and the President. Also contains information on interaction with other women’s organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The administrative files include copies of NWP publications, clippings from other publications, cartoons and photographs. SUBJECTS: United States – History – Women; Suffrage; 20c; 1910s
527. NATIONAL WOMAN’S PARTY PAPERS: PART I, 1913-1974. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 6208 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 179 R INDEX OR GUIDE: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition. JK 1881 .N37x Ref. History of the party, description and arrangement of the papers, a reel list, and index to names of correspondents. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Originally a committee of the National American woman Suffrage Association, the NWP was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul, who broke away from NAWSA in dissent over strategy and tactics. The NWP employed confrontational tactics, such as picketing, demonstrations and marches. The first organization to advocate the ERA, the NWP was in the forefront of evolving attitudes about women’s place in society. These papers record the founding of the party, its activities in support of suffrage and its recorded in bringing about federal and local laws that advanced the status of women. Most of the correspondence (Series I) deals with the period 1920-1950, but includes material before and after those dates. Series II includes minutes, legal papers and financial records. Series III consists of printed materials, such as pamphlets, press releases, and serials (including Equal Rights, volumes 1-40, 1923-1954). Also includes scrapbooks and government documents. Series IV contains similar materials for the international arm of the NWP, the World Woman’s Party Papers, 1938-1958. See also the separate record for Part II: National Woman’s Party Papers: the Suffrage Years. SUBJECTS: United States – History – Women; 20c
528. PERIODICALS ON WOMEN & WOMEN’S RIGHTS. CALL NUMBER: Cataloged separately; see Online Catalog and PSL NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: INDEX OR GUIDE: SCOPE AND CONTENTS: A collection of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century periodicals, published in Great Britain and the United States. Includes: Equal Rights (1935-1936); The Club Woman (1897-1904); The Women Voter (1910-1917); Woman Rebel, edited by Margaret Sanger (1914); and The Woman Worker (1907-1921). Call numbers are given in the PSL and the Online Catalog. You may also view a list of the titles by doing a series search. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – Periodicals; Great Britain; Birth Control; Suffrage; Women’s Rights; 1890s; 19c; 20c; 1910s; 1920s
529. QUAKER WOMEN’S DIARIES, 18TH – 19TH CENTURIES; RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 6889 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 5 R INDEX OR GUIDE: BX 7793 Q35x. Reel guide. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Filmed from the Friends Reference Library, London. These are manuscript diaries of English Quakers. SUBJECTS: Great Britain – Women; 18c; 19c
530. REPORT ON CONDITION OF WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE EARNERS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1910-1912. CALL NUMBER: University of Arizona Microfilm NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 3 R INDEX OR GUIDE: Index on film SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Nineteen reports, published between 1910 and 1912, on unsafe and exploitative conditions of labor for women and children. The reports examine industries such as clothing and textiles; the beginning of child labor legislation; women in trade unions; history of women in industry; relation of juvenile delinquency to employment; health; illiteracy. SUBJECTS: Business – History; United States – Women in Industry; Child Labor; 1910s; 20c
531. ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR. PAPERS, 1933-1945. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 9411 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 20 R INDEX OR GUIDE: E 807.1 R48 A4x 1986 Micro Ref. Biographical essay; editorial note; reel index with detailed descriptions of contents; subject index. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Filmed from selected holdings of the F. D. Roosevelt Library, esp. correspondence. This collection documents her interaction with the leading political and governmental figures of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as her involvement in some of the country’s most far-reaching reform movements for social change long before they won popular acceptance. A source for women’s history, New Deal, public policy, social welfare, relief, Democratic Party, blacks, civil rights, NAACP, World War II, Japanese-Americans. SUBJECTS: Roosevelt, Eleanor; Women’ History; 20c; 1930s; 1940s; Blacks; United States
532. STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY (1815-1902). PAPERS. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 6780 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 5 R INDEX OR GUIDE: Reel 1 contains a listing of the contents of each reel; detailed notes on the scope of the collection; and a biographical note. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Papers from the Library of Congress collection donated by Susan B. Anthony and Harriot Stanton Blatch. Along with Susan B. Anthony, Stanton waged a campaign to gain political rights for women, teaching generations of women the importance of political power. Her career illustrates how the women’s suffrage movement grew out of the abolitionist movement. She organized the first Woman’s Rights Convention (1848) and was President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She wrote History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1886). These papers deal primarily with the period 1840-1902 and contain correspondence, copies of articles, speeches, drafts of books, scrapbooks and other printed matter relating to Mrs. Stanton and the woman’s rights movement. They reflect her role as social reformer and leading proponent of women’s rights for more than fifty years, during which she spoke and wrote about the political, economic, religious and social wrongs perpetrated against women. She was married to an abolitionist and was active in the anti-slavery movement in the decades preceding the Civil War and worked for Negro rights during Reconstruction. She also advocated higher education for women. She sought the right to vote as basic to all other rights and worked for state laws and a constitutional amendment to that effect. The collection elucidates the goals, tactics and activities of many of the men and women associated with the movement and depicts the external opposition as well as the internal divisions. The papers also illustrate how she balanced family life with the demands placed on her as a leader. Some of her correspondents were: Susan B. Anthony; Daniel Cady; William Henry Channing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Julia Ward Howe; Lucretia Mott; Emmaline Pankhurst; Wendell Phillips; Elizabeth E. Pike; Gerrit Smith; henry B. Stanton; Lucy Stone; Edith Roosevelt; Thurlow Weed and John Greenleaf Whittier. SUBJECTS: Women – United States; Stanton, Elizabeth; 19c; Woman Suffrage; Abolitionists; Antislavery; Feminists
533. TWENTIETH CENTURY TRADE UNION WOMAN: VEHICLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. PART I. CALL NUMBER: Microfiche 4x6 3604 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 61 F INDEX OR GUIDE: Oral History Guide (AI 3. 07 Micro Ref. and Hayden Ref.). Lists all interviewees and gives location on the microfiche. Also, an alphabetical list of the memoirists and their union affiliations is included at the beginning of each woman’s history. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Part of the New York Times Oral History Program. Aims to provide primary sources for the study of nonprofessional American working women. Includes transcripts of recorded interviews of rank and file working women who became active in the effort to unionize workers in fields dominated by women and to gain greater acceptance for women in unions which have a traditional male membership. Arranged by name. A few notable memoirists are: Catherine Conroy, one of the founders of the National Organization of Women; Evelyn Dubrow, lobbyist for the AFL-CIO; and Margaret Scattergood, secretary to Samuel Gompers. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – Employment; Trade Unions; 20c
534. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. SUFFRAGISTS ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION. CALL NUMBER: Microfiche 4x6 5408 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 41 F INDEX OR GUIDE: Oral History Guide No. 3 (AI 3 .07 no. 3 Ref. and Micro. Ref.). Also, the Online Catalog record lists sthe women who were interviewed. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Interviews with 12 women who were in the forefront of the suffrage movement in California and at the national level. Important contributors are Alice Paul, Jeannette Rankin, Helen V. Bary and Rebecca H. Reyher. Topics covered include birth control, National Women’s Party, feminism, League of Women Voters. SUBJECTS: United States – Women; 20c
535. WALLING, ANNA STRUNSKY. PAPERS. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 8530 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 20 R INDEX OR GUIDE: CT 275 W253 A3x Micro. Ref. List of correspondents by name. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Author and advocate of socialism and the cause of labor; close associate of Jack London and Leonard Abbott. Married William English Walling. Traveled extensively in imperial Russia and during early years of Soviet Union. This collection includes her correspondence, diaries, writings, memorabilia and photographs. SUBJECTS: Walling, Anna Strunsky; 20c; Socialism; Soviet Union; Russia; USSR; United States
536. WOMEN’S BUREAU OF THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. RECORDS, 1918-1965. CALL NUMBER: University of Arizona Library Microfilm 7149. NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 23 R INDEX OR GUIDE: Printed guide SCOPE AND CONTENTS: Monthly reports of the Director; annual summaries of conferences, speeches and articles. Documents the work of the Bureau in investigating the status of women workers through two world wars, the depression and periods of postwar economic readjustment. Primary data on working conditions, protective labor legislation, the ERA, women in industry, immigrant women workers, child care, black women, occupational and safety hazards, legal status of women and women in white-collar professions. SUBJECTS: United States – Women; 20c; Women in Industry
537. WOMEN’S HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER. WOMEN AND/IN LAW. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 5693 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 40 R INDEX OR GUIDE: KF 477 .A1 W64x Ref. Women and Law: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Women’s Law Library. Contains alphabetical index of file titles with annotations. For each entry it provides the file classification, reel number and image number. Each reel has a table of contents. Additional indexes include an Index of Groups and an author index for research/position papers. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: A clipping archive of newspapers, newsletters, speeches, flyers and research papers relating to women and law. A nationwide network provided the primary source materials contained in the collection, which is divided into 6 parts: (1) Law, General; (2) Politics; (3) Employment; (4) Education; (5) Rape/prison/prostitution; (6) Black and third world women. SUBJECTS: United States – Women – Legal Status; Third World; Blacks; 20c
538. WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM. PAPERS, 1915-1978. CALL NUMBER: University of Arizona Library Microfilm 7090. NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 114 R INDEX OR GUIDE: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection. Guide contains history of the organization, description and arrangement of the papers, a reel guide and topic index. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: The WILPF has grown to become one of the most influential and active of all international women’s organizations. Its action-oriented approach to promoting world peace has created public awareness and swayed governmental policies. The collection deals with such topics as: anti-semitism, civil rights, pacifism, the third world, nuclear disarmament, political prisoners and the United Nations. Contains correspondence, executive committee records, financial records, international congresses and printed matter (including official newsletters and press clippings). Based on collection at Swarthmore College. SUBJECTS: International – Women; 20c
539. WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN CUBA, 1898-1958: THE STONER COLLECTION ON CUBAN FEMINISM. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 9455 NUMBER OF REELS/FICHE: 15 R INDEX OR GUIDE: Guide to the Stoner Collection. A reel guide with index (HQ 1507 .P75x Ref). SCOPE AND CONTENTS: This collection was compiled by Dr. Lynn Stoner (ASU History Department) from Cuban archives. Spanning the period from Cuban independence through the end of the Batistia regime, the collection is valuable for research on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, and the legal status of women. Includes documents that reflect men’s opinions on women’s issues, such as reform laws to improve women’s status; works by feminists about feminists and their causes; memoirs of feminist congresses; journals and other publications by feminist organizations; biographies of notable women; and speeches and radio broadcasts by feminists. Also includes literary works (novels, poetry and literary criticism). A few examples of periodicals are given below: Aspiraciones (1918), an early feminist journal published by the Partido Feminista Aspiraciones. La Sufragista (1922-1934), journal of the Partido Sufragista. La Mujer Moderno (1926), journal of the Club Femenino de Cuba, the oldest Cuban feminist organization. La Mujer (1929-1931), journal for the Partido Democraatica Sufragista, focusing on the entire Cuban feminist movement. Lyceum Lawn and Tennis Club Memoria (1929-45, 1951-54, 1957-64), publication of a conservative upper-and middle-class women’s organization that encouraged feminist and political activities. Boletin de la Alianza Feminista (1931-1933), the journal of the National Feminist Alliance, a group that produced some of Cuba’s leading feminists and politicians, including the first female senator. Mujeres Cubanas (entire run, 1950-1953), publication of the Federacion Democratica de Mujeres Cubanas, forerunner of the Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas. SUBJECTS: Cuba – Women; Feminism – Latin America
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