Teaching Feminism, Women & Gender
As a women's college, ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳ has particularly strong holdings in primary source materials that evidence the range of social and political movements comprising feminism and its aims to define and achieve equality of the sexes.
Topics
Women’s Rights, Suffrage, and Feminist Symbols
ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳ was known as the most pro-suffrage of the women's colleges, and Special Collections holds an array of pro- and anti-suffrage materials, including the Carrie Chapman Catt papers and photograph albums.
Women as Authors, Artists, Actors/ActivistsÂ
Bryn Mawr has made concerted efforts to build its collections of women writers, artists, and activists.
Women’s Education
As one of the country’s preeminent women’s colleges for nearly a century and a half, Bryn Mawr has built extensive collections on women's education.
Domestic Spaces, Homemaking, Mothering, and "Women's Work"
Bryn Mawr has built extensive collections that document women’s daily lives.
Topics of Gender & Sexuality
College Women
ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳ is a participant in College Women, a searchable collection of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and photographs from the archives of a select group of the earliest women’s colleges in the United States, the Seven Sisters.
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education is an online locus of scholarship on the history of women’s higher education.
Contact Us
Library and Information Technology Services
Canaday Library
101 N Merion Ave
ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳, Pennsylvania 19010
Office of the CIO:
610-526-5271