Feminism -- Early works to 1800

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• Feminism
• Women -- Early works to 1800

• Woman Not Inferior to Man: or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men (London: Printed for J. Hawkins, 1739), by Sophia
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • PDF at theabsolute.net

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Anarchism and Other Essays (second revised edition), by Emma Goldman (HTML at pitzer.edu)
• Anarchism and Other Essays, by Emma Goldman (Gutenberg text)
• The Feminist Movement (London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear Type Press, ca. 1912), by Ethel Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women (London: Allen and Unwin, 1915), by C. K. Ogden and Mary Sargant Florence (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism, by Benjamin Vestal Hubbard (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development, ed. by Jane L. Parpart, M. Patricia Connelly, and Eudine Barriteau (HTML at idrc.ca)
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness (electronic edition; based on three versions from 1971-1973), by Jo Freeman (HTML at jofreeman.com)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, by Margaret Fuller (HTML at tamu.edu)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• Feminist Success Stories: Célébrons Nos Réussites Féministes (with articles in English and French; 1999), ed. by Karen Blackford, Marie-Luce Garceau, and Sandra L. Kirby (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Women in China's Long Twentieth Century (c2007), by Gail Hershatter (PDF files with commentary at CDL)

• Feminism and Politics: A Comparative Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Joyce Gelb (HTML at UC Press)

• Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power, by Louisa May Alcott
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Fraud of Feminism (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1913), by Ernest Belfort Bax (HTML at menstribune.com)
• Piecing it Together: Feminism and Nonviolence (c1983), by Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group (Great Britain) (HTML at wri-irg.org)

• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (4 volumes; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798), by Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)

• Aurora (1981-1990; with issues of Janus, its predecessor) (full serial archives)
• Do or Die (partial serial archives)
• The Egoist (complete run, 1914-1919), ed. by Dora Marsden and Harriet Shaw Weaver (full serial archives)
• Feminista! The Journal of Feminist Construction (partial serial archives)
• Janus (1975-1980; with issues of Aurora, its successor) (full serial archives)
• Quiet Mountain Essays (full serial archives)

• The Feminist Gospel: The Movement to Unite Feminism with the Church, by Mary A. Kassian
  • HTML at wavefront.com
  • PDF at cbmw.org

• Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement (1972), by Chicago Women's Liberation Union (HTML at Duke)
• What is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation? (ca.1970), by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood (HTML at Duke)
• Women of Influence (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)

• Fight on Sisters, and Other Songs for Liberation (1978), by Carol Hanisch (page images at Duke)

• Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Mary E. John (HTML at UC Press)
• For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, by Genevieve Vaughan (illustrated HTML at for-giving.com)
• From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2005), ed. by Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber (PDF at umass.edu)
• Numinous Subjects: Engendering the Sacred in Western Culture, An Essay (2007), by Lucy Tatman (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon-Humanist Dialogue (c1994), ed. by George D. Smith (HTML at Signature Books)
• Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development, ed. by Jane L. Parpart, M. Patricia Connelly, and Eudine Barriteau (HTML at idrc.ca)
• Women and the Glorious Quran: An Analytical Study of Women-Related Verses of Sura An-Nisa (in English and German; 2004), by Gunawan Adnan (PDF in Germany)

• Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2010), ed. by Carol Lee Bacchi and Joan Eveline (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by Gail Hamilton
  • HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (2000), by Cynthia Rothschild, ed. by Scott Long (HTML at iglhrc.org)

• The Awakening of Women: or, Woman's Part in Evolution (second edition; London: W. Reeves, ca. 1905), by Frances Swiney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ester Hath Hang'd Haman, by Ester Sowernam (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Feminist Movement (London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear Type Press, ca. 1912), by Ethel Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Long Road of Woman's Memory, by Jane Addams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life: Four Papers from The Boston Courier for 1858, by George Lunt (page images at MOA)
• The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (London: Watts and Co., 1908), by Joseph McCabe, contrib. by Florence Dixie
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman, Her Character, Culture and Calling a Full Discussion of Woman's Work in the Home, the School, the Church and the Social Circle, With an Account of Her Successful Labors in Moral and Social Reform (Brantford, Ont.: Book & Bible House, 1890), by Benjamin Fish Austin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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