Women's History Month Recommendations

Essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

An award-winning archive with 264 periodical titles and over 4,000 monographs and pamphlets, the Gerritsen Women’s History Collection is a large, cross-cultural resource spanning continents and centuries to trace changes in women’s lives and political involvement. The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,000 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The Gerritsen Collection is noteworthy for its size, scope, and diversity. It contains substantial material relating to women's experiences in education, employment, and politics, as well as material dealing with women's lives within the home. Periodicals constitute about 25 percent of the entire collection. For the years from 1860 through 1900, the period covered by most of the periodical titles, there is no comparable resource.