Resources and Affiliated Programs
Primary resources on sexuality can be found throughout the holdings of the Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Some are about sex; others are about sexual identity, sexual politics, or relationships. These collections document mainstream sexuality, as well as various margins and contested areas of sexuality. A Research Guide to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is available online.
The Human Sexuality Collection seeks to preserve and make accessible primary sources that document historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian and gay history and the politics of pornography.
The Home Economics Archive: Research Tradition and History (HEARTH) is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines.
The Kheel Center is the most venerable labor-management archive of its type in North America. Its artifacts and documents illuminate labor and workplace history - specifically the needle trades, railroads, teachers, arbitration, mediation, and management theory. The Labor Photos database provides images from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union photo collection. The Triangle Fire Web Exhibit site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century, and the resulting investigations and reforms.
The Women's Resource Center (WRC) is dedicated to serving the entire Cornell community with mutual respect, honesty, and openness. The WRC values women and men coming together to end sexism, along with all forms of oppression, and maintaining an environment where all are free to affirm and celebrate their differences and commonalties.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center coordinates the efforts of the entire Cornell University
community to ensure the inclusion of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
people, and to eliminate heterosexism and gender identity oppression. The Resource Center affirms lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender identities and lives, and provides education, outreach, programming,
program support, consultation, community development, visibility, and advocacy.
