Gender & Sexuality Studies

Drawing from the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), it focuses on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Research a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Covers a critical period of rapid revolution in the justice and penal system, which set up many of the systems still in place today. Includes English archival crime material, American material, and the Police Gazette of Queensland, Australia.

Explores the study and analysis of gender primarily through the perspective of a White British majority. 
Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.

Contains an array of digitized materials on transgender history and culture. The collection functions as an extensive hub of resources, drawing content from archives across the U.S. and Canada.

Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.

The full text of this important nineteenth-century magazine for women; includes over 18,000 illustrations and color plates.

A collection of full-text literary works, memoirs, essays, and feminist works written by women in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Most of the texts are in Spanish and Portuguese.

Digital facsimiles of manuscript letters and diaries written by American women from New England families.

Find women's eyewitness accounts of historical events from 1675- 1950. Women's writings and primary sources.

Works written by women in the early modern period with the goal to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible.