Gender: Identity and Social Change Database

Explore essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations, and the struggle for women’s rights, from the nineteenth century to the present.

Gender: Identity and Social Change includes primary sources for the study of gender history, women’s suffrage, the feminist movement and the men’s movement. Other key areas represented in the material include: employment and labor, education, government and legislation, the body, domesticity, and the family. Explore records from men’s and women’s organizations and pressure groups, detailing twentieth-century lobbying and activism on a wide array of issues to reveal developing gender relations and prevalent challenges.

Material has been sourced from across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The earliest documents are from the nineteenth century and the latest from the early twenty-first century.

You may also find this database under Databases A-Z located on the libraries home page. For more information, please feel free to contact a consulting librarian.