QuickStart Guide:
Women's Studies

Primary Sources and Web Sites

Primary Source Collections at Brandeis

The Library's Special Collections department houses archival materials for: Rose Jacobs, Sophie Tucker, Francis Fletcher (Meckler), Fannie Hurst, Susan Brandeis, and Marie Syrkin.

In addition, Brandeis owns:

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500 to 1900
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
• The papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Microfilm E807.1 .R429
• Herstory: women's history collection Microfilm HQ1420 .H47 1972.
• The Black women oral history project: from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. E185.86 .B545 1991
• American Association of University Women archives, 1881-1976 Microfilm LC1551 .A553 A4 1980.
• The twentieth century trade union woman: vehicle for social change ; oral history project. Microfiche HD6079.2 .U5 T734.
• Women and law. Microfilm HQ1420 .W59 1974.
• Records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1850-1960. Microfilm HQ1418 .N359 1981.
• Women and/in health. Microfilm HQ1420 .W68 1974.

Primary Source Collections in the Area:

Meta-Sites for Women's Studies

• Women and Gender Studies Web Site
  Association of College & Research Libraries
• University of Maryland Women's Studies Website