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Secondary Sources
- Example:
- Femme
Covert
A collection of scholarly articles from academic journals and
important anthologies comprises an important contextual component
of the service and serves as a tool for further research.
Factual and informative reference articles provide detailed descriptions
of persons, events, organizations, and issues in American women’s
history. Drawn from The Encyclopedia of Women’s History in
America, by Kathleen Cullen-Dupont, the hundreds of entries
cover topics such as:
- African American benevolent societies, age of consent, All American
Girls Professional Baseball League, Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, American Association of University Women, American
Birth Control League, American Equal Rights Association, and many
more.
- Hundreds of brief, but excellent, biographies of important
American women, including those of Bella Abzug, Abigail Adams,
Jane Addams, Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Susan B. Anthony,
Hannah Arendt, Rachel Foster Avery, Clara Barton, Gertrude Simmons
Bonnin, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Rachel Carson,
Willa Cather, Mary Cassatt, Carrie Chapman Catt, Shirley Chisholm,
Kate Chopin, Isadora Duncan, Abigail Scott Duniway, Andrea Dworkin,
Mary Dyer, Amelia Earhart, Crystal Eastman, Mary Baker Eddy, Emma
Goldman, "Mother" Jones, Clare Booth Luce, Mourning
Dove, Judith Sargent Murray, Carry Nation, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Wright, Emma Willard, and Rosalyn
Yalow
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