Teaching Feminism, Women & Gender

As a women's college, Bryn Mawr 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.

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Women’s Rights, Suffrage, and Feminist Symbols

Bryn Mawr 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.

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met Museum

Women as Authors, Artists, Actors/Activists 

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.  

Mary Cassatt, In the Omnibus, or Tramway, 1890-91, 1949.17

Domestic Spaces, Homemaking, Mothering, and "Women's Work"

Bryn Mawr has built extensive collections that document women’s daily lives.

The Knight's Tale, Kelmscott Chaucer

Topics of Gender & Sexuality

College Women

Bryn Mawr College 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.

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