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Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (1543-1945)

In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets, and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history. This database contains full-text publications reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945.

The Periodical Series contains complete runs of magazines and newspapers mainly from 1860-1900; the Monograph Language Series offers over 4000 books and pamphlets in English (over 2000 titles), German, French, and other languages. Non-English-language books are summarized in English.

Search tips:

  • If you want to search for a particular phrase, place quotation marks around all the words that make up the phrase. For example, "cotton weaving".

  • To search for a subject, enter a subject into the Subject box, or choose the subject you want from the Select from a list page. Click the Search button.

  • You can choose the order in which records are sorted in the search results by using the sort results drop-down list; click the arrow to the right of the box and choose the relevant option from the list that appears. You can choose to sort your results by: relevance, alphabetically by author, alphabetically by title, oldest record first, and most recent record first.

    Where is it :

    Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Journal Articles tab, click on A-Z list of databases and then on the letter G and select Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online.

    Quick link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://gerritsen.chadwyck.com


    • By
    Shelley Heaton
    on July 21, 2009 2:19 PM     |
     

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