Women's Studies Students!!

Working on that women’s history project this semester? Can’t find any good primary sources? Your subject librarian is here to help!

I know that you many of you are doing work on the Woman’s Suffrage Movement this semester for your history class. If you’re having trouble locating primary source material, let me introduce you to a source you may not realize you can access!

The Library of Congress digitized a small section of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s collection of pamphlets, journals, handbooks, etc. You can access it through our own library website under Government Documents, American Memory Series – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html.

Just to give you an example of what you might find in there, the entire Handbook of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and Proceedings of the Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, April 13, 1921 can be viewed in full-text. Seriously.

Need some help locating it? Or help searching through it? Just let me know!

For those of you Intro students who are enraged after watching Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly 3, Advertising’s Image of Women in class last week, I have the answer for your activism-hungry desires.

The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press (hey, their motto is “working toward the radical restructuring of the communications system” - how cool is that?) recently published their 2009 edition of the Directory of Women’s Media.

In it you will find listings of periodicals by, for and about women (print and ‘zines), Women’s Presses, media organizations, and national/international listings. So if you want to get a hold of someone at Tapestry, the e-zine of Women’s Online Worldwide to speak your mind about power and beauty, this is the place to go to find their contact information!

The directory’s call number is P 87.M42 2009 and you can find it in the Social Science Reference Collection on the 2nd Floor – or you can just stop in to see me and I will happily show you where it’s at.

Peace!