LibGuides: HIST 3570: Gender and Sex in History: Reproductuve Rights

Primary Sources

Margaret Sanger Papers This link opens in a new window
Historical documents and other primary sources focusing on Sanger's personal papers and records of the birth control movement. Documents are related to birth control, women's rights, suffrage, feminism, reform and social work, arts, and middle-class family life.

The Wellcome Collection
A free museum and library exploring health and human experience.
The Smithsonian Digital Collections
The scope of objects in Smithsonian collections is staggering—from ancient Chinese bronzes to the Star-Spangled Banner; from a 3.5 billion-year-old fossil to the Apollo lunar landing module; from the ruby slippers featured in The Wizard of Oz to presidential memorabilia.
Harvard Center for the History of Medicine
Exhibit: History of Contraception
From Western Case Reserve University, Dittrick Medical History Center.
Museum of Contraception and Abortion Object Collection
A privately funded museum in Viena, Austria.
Medical Heritage Library
Explore historical medical advice and contraception research through digitized medical journals and manuals.
Venereal Disease Visual History Archive
The Venereal Disease Visual History Archive is a project to present and make available visual culture materials related to syphilis and gonorrhea from the first half of the twentieth century that are currently scattered among different digital and traditional archives. The primary focus is on sources related to the popular campaign to “stamp out” venereal disease in the 1930s and 1940s.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
An older site from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, one of the major centers of American eugenics, this collection includes primary sources including letters, photographs, publications, and more.
Our Bodies Ourselves
Digitized copies of the hugely influential women's health book "Our Bodies Ourselves" (1970), as well as later editions, translations, other publications from the Boston Women's Health Group Collective, media clippings, and more.