New: Reproductive Rights Resources in the Sallie Bingham Center
Now online: Prescriptive Literature for Women. Annotated bibliography of published works that helped to define women's sphere in seventeenth- through twenty-first-century America. Prescriptions for women's proper role and behavior are found throughout medical texts, etiquette books, manuals on household management, religious sermons, commencement speeches, marriage handbooks, novels and poetry, and women's magazines. What we have at Duke is listed here, complete with call numbers. Also includes a short list of women's manuscript collections that illustrate how it really was. All in all, a useful tool for class projects and graduate research in a variety of disciplines.
Beyond Nancy Drew - Girls' Literature in the Sallie Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture
JAPANESE WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES. A guide to locating information about Japanese women. Includes bibliographies, dictionaries, women's magazines, journals, and yearbooks which are held in Duke Libraries' East Asian Collection.
WOMEN in MUSIC: A Pathfinder for Sources in the Duke University Libraries. A comprehensive guide to locating information about women in music. Includes reference sources, journal articles, archival materials and net sources for a broad range of musical genres including blues, classical, jazz, folk, country, rock, rap, women's music and world beat.
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet. Provides links to manuscript collections at Duke which have been scanned and transcribed as well as links to other Civil War women's archival documents currently available in cyberspace.
Women's Collections on Microfilm. A list of archival collections, periodicals, books, and topical collections on microfilm which are available in the Duke University Lbraries.
History of Sexuality. A list of manuscript collections and rare books in Duke's Special Collections Library useful to those researching the history of sexuality, sex, and the construction of gender. Materials from the 17th century to the present, ranging from legal texts to personal correspondence to popular culture.
Queer Pulp Fiction. Lists and describes titles in our collection of lesbian pulp fiction, as well as secondary sources available in Perkins Library. Includes a short historical contextualization of pulp publishing in general, and lesbian pulps in particular.
American Woman Suffrage: A Pathfinder for Sources in Duke Libraries. Crash course in finding primary and secondary sources on this topic. Includes pointers for searching on-line and card catalogs; lists microfilm collections; periodicals, posters, and pamphlets published by movement organizers; and a list of manuscript collections containing diaries and letters of suffrage activists.
Women's Liberation Movement: Pathfinder for Sources in Duke Libraries. Research aid that includes helpful information about searching on-line catalogs; lists of bibliographies, anthologies and overviews; key players in the movement; important journals and newsletters to consult; and a list of the many archival collections available in Duke's Special Collections Library.
Retrieving African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library. Our most popular guide! A blessing to researchers undertaking lengthier projects on African-American women's history and culture. Covers African-American women's lives from slavery through Civil Rights. Contains 100 descriptive entries on a rich range of archival collections available in Duke's Special Collections Library.
A Sampler of Women's Studies Resources in the Special Collections Library: Primary Source Materials for Research, Teaching, Exhibits, and Publications. The mother of all guides -- our most comprehensive listing of manuscripts. Contains literally hundreds of collection descriptions.
Women and the Civil War. A list of manuscript collections in Duke's Special Collections Library pertaining to women's experiences during the Civil War, ranging from fragmentary references to extensive correspondence and lengthy diaries by women which chronicle their daily lives.
Women at Duke: A Select Bibliography of Sources (2 pp). An annotated list of materials pertaining to the lives of women at Duke University, from the days of the Woman's College to the present. Includes material held by University Archives, the Special Collections Library, and materials held in the Perkins Library stacks. (CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN HARD COPY ONLY: click here if you would like one sent to you!)
Women in Higher Education: A Select Bibliography of Sources. Topics covered include discrimination, the history of women in academy, the place of feminism in the academy, etc. Lists sources available throughout Perkins and Special Collections Libraries and includes call numbers.
Reference Sources for Women's Studies: An Introduction to Library Research. Useful tool to jump-start those new to women's studies research. Identifies biographical sources, indexes and abstracts, public opinion data, microfilms, on-line searching and CD roms.
List of Women's Studies Periodicals Currently Received by Duke Libraries. Unannotated, titles only, this list identifies journals and periodicals focussing on women or women's studies that are currently subscribed to by Perkins, Lilly, Divinity, Fuqua, Med Center, and Law Libraries.
Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (43 pp). Published in conjunction with the North Carolina Women Writers Conference, March 1992. Quite simply, a remarkable document. Includes a complete alphabetical listing of writers and their works; a bibliography of sources by and about North Carolina women writers; and indexes for genre, geographic region, chronological/time period, and cultural groups (African-American, Native American, and Lesbian writers). Not specific to Duke holdings.
Guide to Women's Archival Materials in North Carolina. A selective list of published guides to women's archival collections in North Carolina. Includes addresses and prices. Also points to several archival collections in the Triangle region that house women's materials, but which do not have published guides.
Ginny Daley