Teaching & Research
Resources at Purdue University
The Purdue Archives has rotating exhibitions onsite as well as numerous online exhibitions.
Online exhibitions related to the Women's Archives include:
Purdue Archives staff and students create blog posts to highlight specific collections, events, or people represented in the Purdue Archives and Special Collections.
To see blogs detailing the collections and events involving Purdue women and/or the Purdue University Women’s Archives, see:
Women's Archives
PRIMARY SOURCES RESEARCH GUIDE
This research guide aims to teach students, instructors, and researchers about what archives are, how to access and cite materials, and provides an overview of what is available at the Purdue Archives.
This resource lists significant women in the history of Purdue University and provides brief biographical information and a description of why they are significant to Purdue.
WOMEN'S GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES RESEARCH
A research guide created by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Libraries liaison. This guide includes links to databases, journals, websites, and other resources useful for research on women, gender, and sexuality.
Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Teaching Guide
A teaching guide to help instructors incorporate primary source literacy and archival collections related to women’s history into their classes. This guide includes suggested assignments/activities, possible readings, resources, and key collections in the Women's Archives.
Scholarly Research
Purdue Student Research
Examples of student research using the Women's Archives.
External Publications
Select publications by Purdue University or external institutions using materials from the women's archives.
Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home
Angie Klink, Purdue University Press, 2011
Angie Klink, Purdue University Press, 2011
The Deans' Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality
Angie Klink, Purdue University Press, 2014
Angie Klink, Purdue University Press, 2014
Purdue girls : the female experience at a land-grant university, 1887-1913
Caitlyn Marie Stypa, IUPUI, 2013
Caitlyn Marie Stypa, IUPUI, 2013
Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University
Donna J. Drucker, Notches, 2016
Donna J. Drucker, Notches, 2016
“In a Sense, It Is a Game”: Women's Dormitory Life at Purdue University, 1939–1940
Donna J. Drucker, Indiana Magazine of History, 113(1), 2017
Donna J. Drucker, Indiana Magazine of History, 113(1), 2017
External Resources
Archives Library Information Center: Women
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
This resource includes a listing of web sites relevant to women's history in the United States and includes links to bibliographies, resources of African-American women, biographies, information about women's suffrage, women in the military, and more.
Indiana Women's Suffrage Resources
Indiana Women's Suffrage Commission
This is a resource for researchers, educators, information and culture professionals on women's suffrage in Indiana. It includes teaching materials, program toolkits, information about available research grants and speaking opportunities, and other educational resources.
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