Defining Gender,1450-1910 is a full-text searchable database which contains over 60,000 documents related to gender studies from the medieval period through the nineteenth century. Documents are sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

It consists of five thematic sections, which  feature concise, scholarly essays that link to referenced source material.

• Section1: Conduct & Politeness
• Section2: Domesticity & the Family
• Section3: Consumption & Leisure
• Section4: Education & Sensibility
• Section5: The Body