LibGuides: Primary Sources: Human Sexuality: General Sources

Online Sources: General Sources

Archives for Research on Women and Gender "The Archives for Research on Women and Gender documents the experiences of women and men participating in women-centered and LGBTQ activist and advocacy activities in Georgia and the Southeast throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. It also documents the experiences of women at Georgia State University. Collections include the personal and professional papers of individual activists as well as the records of activist organizations, and the personal and professional papers of GSU administrators and faculty, as well the records of its Women’s Studies Institute, and women-centered committees and organizations. The digitized materials include photographs, printed matter, artifacts, and textiles from the Archives for Research on Women and gender."
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project (MSU) The Women's Overseas Service League (WOSL) oral history digital collection offers free, worldwide listening to 162 audio interviews with American women who served overseas during the Great War, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. The Women's Overseas Service League donated their oral history collection to the MSU Libraries' Vincent Voice Library in 1999. The materials include sound recording masters on audio cassette, full copyright releases, some transcripts, and biographical data. The University of Texas at San Antonio also has a WOSL archival collection that includes approximately 40 interviews. These two collections have been digitized as part of an NHPRC-funded grant project and combined in this online collection, which forms the most complete known collection of WOSL oral histories. About the Women's Overseas Service League Founded in 1921 by women who had served in World War I, WOSL initially existed as local units, but soon became a national organization. The recordings, transcripts, and ephemera presented here enable the listener to understand the context under which these women served and later banded together to form the League. In listening to these women's recollections, we learn of their experiences, including fighting for government benefits for women and supporting fellow service women through strategic philanthropic effort. We are beneficiaries of poignant reminiscences from their day-to-day challenges while overseas and after returning home.
Disability History Museum--Library "Disability is an aspect of human experience that crosses all boundaries of race, class and gender, and it leaves a trail in all societies, everywhere. Our Collections aim to reveal the rich possibilities and directions disability history offers as a means to study our collective human experience."
FBI — The Vault "... electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. "
Gender Statistics (World Bank DataBank) This database from the World Bank Group supplies "gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features." Sources for the information in the database include national statistics, the United Nations, and World Bank conducted or funded surveys. Select a country and then select a category of statistical data.
Making of America (University of Michigan) "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
Making of America Collection (Cornell University) "The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
The Shriver Report "... is a multi-platform nonprofit media initiative led by Maria Shriver that seeks to modernize America’s relationship to women."
Sacred Sexuality Classic texts that address the intersection of sex and spirituality.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Sex and Gender Medieval texts that illustrate gender roles, the constructs of sex and gender, and married life.
Social Welfare History Archives "The Social Welfare History Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for use the archives of voluntary-sector social service and social reform organizations and the personal papers of individual leaders in the field. These materials serve as sources for original research on the history of social service and social reform, focused on, but not limited to, late nineteenth and twentieth-century America. "
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University - "This collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women's Liberation Movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and equal pay. Feminist print culture, such as the examples provided in the collection, supported and sustained the women's Movement and connect it to other movements for social justice. "