The National Network of Hispanic Women was a non-profit corporation founded in 1980 that was dedicated to the identification and advancement of Hispanic women for positions of leadership in the public and private sectors. In the past, primary sources documenting Hispanic women have been confined to unpublished dissertations and government documentation - this collection includes organisational records, correspondence, photographs, publications, reports, and ephemera that allow the personal voices of these women to be heard. By putting the socio-political experiences of Hispanic women in American society at the centre of the narrative, these materials promote the continuation of ethnic and gender studies, gender research and debate.

Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.

Documenting key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement Barbara J. Love’s Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 will be the first comprehensive directory to document many of the founders and leaders (including both well-known and grassroots organizers) of the second wave women's movement. It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies. Nancy Cott's foreword discusses the movement in relation to the earlier first wave and presents a brief overview of the second wave in the context of other contemporaneous social movements.