TRIAL: Women and Social Movements International

We now have a trial to the new Alexander Street Press collection, Women and Social Movements International.

This trial runs through March 14th and is IP authenticated, so no UN/PW is required.

To access the trial, visit:
http://wasi.alexanderstreet.com


About the collection:
"A landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, Women and Social Movements, International lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. To the present, women’s international organizations have focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality.

The collection consists of 150,000 pages, mainly in-copyright and previously unpublished primary sources. The conference proceedings of dozens of women’s organizations form the backbone of the project—from the 1840 World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London to “Beijing + 15,” which in 2010 reviewed implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform, and including the Casablanca Dream conference of 2007, which united women from the Global South. Readers will discover how the League of Nations, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Inter-American Commission on Women / Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres, Women’s Africa Committee of the Africa-American Institute, International Council of Jewish Women, and other groups took root, grew, and shaped international history."