Research Guides: WMST 400: Theories of Feminism: Primary Resources: Magazines

American Periodicals Series
Full text images of over 1,100 colonial and early American magazines and periodicals spanning from colonial times to the mid 20th century. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. Useful for the study of American history, literature, culture, sciences and social sciences. Time span: 1740-1900
Nation Digital Archive
The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long bee regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism. This database contains indexing & abstracting and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through to the present.
New Republic Archive
The New Republic, founded in 1914, presents insights from a variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, foreign policy, culture, current events, the arts, and much more. The New Republic Archive contains more than 4,550 issues, with coverage dating back to 1914. Do not attempt to search on authors by truncating the first name. Last, F? will often result in zero hits. Try searching on Last or Last, First.
Economist Historical Archive (1843-2020)
The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of the Economist from 1843 to 2020. With a global circulation of more than 1.2 million, The Economist has consistently delivered a highly intelligent and comprehensive report of international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments, with dispatches from all over the world. Includes mew full-color images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables, a gallery of front covers, supplements, special reports and surveys.
GenderWatch
Full text database comprised of 175 titles, primarily of the many ongoing periodicals that deal with gender issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets and reports.
Academic Search Ultimate
Multi-disciplinary database providing information for nearly every area of academic study. Includes an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. 1965- present.

Mck Periodicals Stacks = movable shelving, check the stack directory for floor location
M-film = microfilm, held in the Periodicals Room on the first floor of McKeldin

Call Number = TT500.V7
Mck Periodical Stacks = 1954-1991
M-film = 1892-1952; 1975-2007

Call Number = TT500.S4
Mck Periodical Stacks = 1959-1972; 1977-1992
M-film = 1973 - 1976

Call Number = AP2 .L135
M-film = 1889 - 1991

Call Number = AP2 .R41
M-film = 1960-1996

Magazines - Google Books
Click on the magazine and then see the years available. Click on the cover and then use the arrows to move through the pages.
Some available titles:
Life
Jet
New York
Mother Jones
Old Line (1930- 1962)
UMD Student Magazine. Often includes pictures of young female students and has articles addressed to them or about them.
Special Collections in Hornbake Library
UPub call number S36.010
Off our backs
Off Our Backs was a non-profit feminist news journal by, for, and about women, published from 1970 until 2008. It was the longest continuously published surviving feminist newspaper in the United States. The paper was run by a collective where all descisions were made by consensus. Although based out of Washington, D.C., the newsjournal covered local, national, and international topics pertaining to women's, feminist, and lesbian issues and culture. The mission of off our backs was "to provide news and information about women's lives and feminist activism; to educate the public about the status of women around the world; to serve as a forum for feminist ideas and theory; to be an information resource on feminist, women's, and lesbian culture; and to seek social justice and equality for women worldwide.''

Print = Hornbake
Online = GenderWatch Database.

Stepford Wives, Women and Gender in the 20th Century Pinterest Page
Images from our collection and other University's collections of women during the "stepford wives" era
Nancy Drew and Friends
The Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection:
Girls' Series Books from 1917 to the Present. The Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection was donated to the University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections in 1998. Elissa Pagnani, who gained a Masters of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services in 1995, donated the collection in honor of her parents Rose and Joseph Pagnani. The collection contains over 300 books from 33 different girls’ series published from 1917 to 1980. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1930s through the 1960s. It is located in the Maryland Room in Hornbake Library
First Appearances Collection
The First Appearances Collection consists of over 1,300 periodicals containing the "first appearance," or first public dissemination, of many noteworthy 20th century literary works. Spanning 1915 to 1977, the First Appearances Collection contains pieces in magazines such as: Cosmopolitan, Elle, Look, Holiday, Playboy, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Saturday Evening Post ...
Do ctrl-F and type in the name of the magazine to see the available dates.