LMU students, faculty, and staff now have access to a new database that contains a century’s worth of information on women-led activism and efforts towards gender equality in socio-economic opportunities in developing nations in the global south: “Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South 1919-2019.” [MyLMU login]
Some noteworthy resources include hours of video content and more than 4,000 books and documents from:
- The Peace Corps: a federal agency established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to render volunteer assistance to countries around the world. This database provides access to a selection of documents from 1961 to 2000 including reports, correspondences, and memorandums all digitized by the National Archives Records Administration.
- The papers of history professor Caroline Farrar Ware (pictured), which include maps, newsletters, reports, notes, correspondences and research projects related to women, ethnic, and cultural studies. Also included are materials related to the InterAmerican Commission of Women, Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and more.
- Publications from the International Labour Organization from 1970 to the early 2000s. Founded in 1919 the ILO seeks to promote social justice for human and labor rights. Among these searchable documents include publications on women’s involvement in job development, micro-industries, and female enterprise in Latin America, the Caribbean, Bangladesh, India, Africa, and other parts of the world.
The Women and Social Movements database has search tools that allow users to optimize their research through several filters including content and publication type, author, organization, date of publication, and women and social movement subject headings. Students and faculty can print, download, email, cite, and export their findings.
Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South 1919-2019 is a helpful database for students and faculty in economics, history, sociology, and women’s and gender studies, or any inquisitive minds who would like to explore the struggles and advances of women in the global south as they make strides towards gender equality in society and the economy.
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