Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) Portal : Primary Resources

Your gateway to gender and women's studies resources at the UW-Madison Libraries and beyond.

Women's History Research in Archives

This guide will help you research women's history in archives by teaching how to find relevant archives and how to get the most out of archival organization.

This guide will help you locate primary sources, with an emphasis on online sources, in the UW-Madison Libraries' collections for research in the humanities and social sciences.

The Gender and Women’s Studies Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the exploration of politics, history, and society from a transnational and multicultural women’s perspective. The collection includes images and texts from Dovie Horvitz, feminist political posters from India, and more.
The South Asian Feminist Activism Archive (SAFAA) is dedicated to the digital preservation and public availability of rare feminist protest posters, original feminist street plays and protest songs, as well as photographs of grassroots activism from India. Focusing on art as activism, this archive details an important history of grassroots feminist activism regarding social issues such as women’s health, sexual and domestic violence, female infanticide, as well as educational and legal inequities.
The Dovie Horvitz Collection consists of over 1,300 images and scanned texts representing objects and printed matter that reflect the lives of women from the mid-1800s through the mid-1900s. The items themselves were collected by Mrs. Dovie Horvitz over almost two decades and are now housed at the Kenosha County Historical Society.

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