Women, Gender & Sexuality: Primary Sources

Primary source collections currently available on JSTOR are multidisciplinary and discipline-specific and include select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.

A robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, with a primary focus on LGBTQ History since the 1940s.

The Vogue Archive contains the full run of the American Vogue, 1892 to present. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution color. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Women and Social Movements: Development in the Global South combines social science-oriented attention to Development Studies—primarily through the lens of economics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, or foreign aid—with organizational and personal activism. The aim is to provide source material that give voice to the many who have been involved in transnational feminist/women’s movements in the name of communities in the Global South over the course of a century. As a field of inquiry, the database is deeply rooted in history: Development was a nationalist project in the era of colonialism and became a multi-national ambition since the founding of the United Nations (UN).

An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. Titles include: Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping and Woman's Day.