I serve as the editor for digital projects at Women and Social Movements. I am delighted to announce our new digital history research and publishing venture that makes full text, digitized primary sources available for research purposes.
Scholars at institutions with subscriptions to Women and Social Movements (info here) in the United States can request machine-readable full-text sources in the databases (described below), as well as the selected metadata provided by Alexander Street Press.
if you are interested in a corpus please email me at professmoravec gmail with the corpus you want and a brief description of your project.
We also invite submissions of scholarly articles employing digital humanities techniques using WASM primary sources and will review such submissions in our double-blind peer-review process. We will publish accepted articles along with our regular document projects and archives. Authors of published articles will receive an honorarium of $500 upon publication. My sample project is openly available.
Full text sources available are
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage, 1830-1930
This grouping of publications is organized around the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1922), edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and other suffrage activists. As of March 2009, it includes another fourteen items, ranging from the proceedings of a New York Constitutional Convention in 1846 to a 1977 oral history interview with a suffrage activist. While the total number of books in this grouping is modest, the History of Woman Suffrage actually includes almost 600 individual documents that are separately indexed in the database by author and title and may be searched on their own.
League of Women Voters, 1920-2000
Between 2007 and 2009 Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 published 8,000 pages of full-text online versions of selected publications of the League of Women Voters between 1920 and 2000. These include a substantial sampling of pamphlets and studies of state and local leagues. The publications are extremely wide-ranging and include significant runs of League national publications, such as Bulletin (1928-1930), League News (1930-1934), Newsletter (1935-1941), Members (1940-1943), Trends (1942-1951), Action (1944-1945), and The National Voter (1951-1955 and 1975-1982). We have also included many League studies that provided educational material for voters on a variety of public policy issues that the League addressed as well as a five-volume study of the League conducted in 1957 by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. Many of these resources are extremely hard to locate in libraries and their online publication in indexed and full-text searchable format should encourage new research on this important twentieth-century women's social movement.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898
Included in the full-text sources are 25 years of proceedings of the WCTU annual meetings held from its founding in 1874 to 1898, the last year that Frances Willard served as president.
Woman's Rights Conventions, 1848-1869
Among the full-text sources reproduced, indexed and fully searchable on the website are all seventeen surviving proceedings of national women's rights conventions held in the 22-year period after the first meeting at Seneca Falls, N.Y. in July 1848.
Women and Antislavery
Ten items in the database are full-text sources dealing with women and anti-slavery. Three are proceedings of national women's antislavery conventions held in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Most of the others are annual reports of women's local antislavery groups.
General Histories
We publish in this section a number of general histories of women that should be of interest to those studying women and social movements in the United States. These works include a 750-page history,Daughters of America by Phebe A. Hanaford, published in 1882 and Annie (Nathan) Meyer's Woman's Work in America, published in 1891.
Histories of Women's Organizations
The full-text sources include (as of March 2009) 32 histories of various women's organizations published between 1874 and 1955. Half a dozen items treat the history of women's temperance organizations and nine cover the history of various groups of clubwomen.
Commissions on the Status of Women (in Scholar's Edition)
Our goal with the Women's Commission Reports has been to compile in one place, for the first time, the complete text of every report on the status of women issued by these bodies during this time period. The collection provides 90,000 pages of materials documenting women's issues over more than four decades in all fifty states and territories of the United States.
Reports on Gender Bias in the Courts
With our March 2013 issue, we completed posting to the site 15,000 pages of documents related to the judicial movement in the United States examining Gender Bias in the Courts, 1983-2002. State courts and state bar associations typically sponsored the studies, more than eighty of which we have reprinted online. This initiative gained strength from the work of state commissions on the status of women, whose publications are reprinted in WASM Scholar's Edition. We are pleased now to complement that database with these additional primary sources.
Writings of Black Woman Suffragists
Beginning with our March 2014 issue, we began posting to the site 15,000 pages of the writings of Black Woman Suffragists. These writings will be added over a three-year period, with about 2,500 pages added to the database with each new issue of the WASM journal. The noted African American scholar, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, identified these activists in the course of research on her dissertation and her subsequent book, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 (1998). We found more than 1,500 writings by 80 of the women Terborg-Penn identified and are publishing rekeyed versions of these works through September 2016. We continue to identify additional works as these materials are posted on the site. Professor Terborg-Penn has written an introduction to this database and we have solicited 18 additional essays by noted scholars of African American women that will be published as each new installment is added to the site.
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