Subject Guides: Feminist Rhetorics: Primary Sources

Digital Collections

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A set of learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question.
Everyday Life & Women in America
Monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. From the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.

Iowa's Suffrage Scrapbook
A scrapbook that provides a brief introduction to Iowa’s suffrage history and points to local and state suffrage Resources.
Women’s Suffrage in Iowa Digital Collection
Photographs, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks and other historic artifacts relating to the women’s suffrage movement in Iowa. Sponsored by a grant from the Iowa State Historical Society Inc. in honor of the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
Iowa Digital Library
Fort Madison NAACP newsletters
African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
Photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters document the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century.
OUTHISTORY.org
Stories about the queer past and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
CWLU herstory project
A history of Chicago Women's Liberation Union. Articles, pamphlets, manifestos, and stories produced by the women's liberation movement that helped influence the thinking of CWLU members.
Library of Congress: Iowa Collections
Library of Congress: Primary Sources for Women's Suffrage

Sources in the Iowa Women's Archives

The Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA) has many collections of primary source material. We suggest that you start by looking at the Topical lists of collections: http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/search.php

Here are some examples of topics and collections that can be researched in the IWA. Most of the links take you to guides to the collections, called "finding aids." Some of the links take you to collections of documents that are available online, such as the Women's Suffrage Digital Collection.

TOPIC: Take Back the Night

Primary sources: Take Back the Night minutes, flyers, etc.—Iowa

Andrea Dworkin, “Take Back the Night” in Letters from a war zone : writings 1976-1987 (1988)
Main Library HQ1426 .D893 1988
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIb.html

Secondary sources: Susan Brownmiller, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

TOPIC: women taking control of medical care / medical self-help

Primary sources: Our Bodies, Ourselves

Emma Goldman Clinic records, box 53:

Mama Gives Birth Coloring Book - 1978
Emma Goldman Clinic Newsletter and Inside Emma - 1978-1979, 1991-2001
Emma Goldman Clinic records

Secondary sources:

Kathy Davis, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Wendy Kline, Bodies of knowledge : sexuality, reproduction, and women’s health in the second wave (2012)
"Iowa's Abortion Battles of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s", by James C. Mohr - 1989

TOPIC: women’s liberation front in Iowa City

Primary sources: Ain’t I A Woman periodical

Iowa City Women’s Press records

Secondary sources:

Agatha Beins and Julie R. Ensure, “We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print: Ain't I a Woman? and the Iowa City Women's Press

TOPIC: riot grrrl movement

Primary sources: Riot Grrrl zine

Sarah and Jen Wolfe Zines -- Collection of amateur publications arising primarily from the feminist riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, together with numerous zines documenting various independent/underground music scenes. Box 4: Riot Grrrl