Defining Gender,1450-1910 examines constructions of femininity and masculinity through "five centuries of advice literature." This full-text searchable database contains over 60,000 documents from the medieval period through the nineteenth century sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Defining Gender is divided into five thematic sections: Conduct & Politeness; Domesticity & the Family; Consumption & Leisure; Education & Sensibility; The Body. Additionally, each section features concise, scholarly essays that link to referenced source material.
This resource can be reached through the Stanford University Libraries' Databases page. See also SULAIR Improves Access to Databases and Articles in this issue.
