Women -- Social conditions

Here are entered works which deal specifically with the social condition and status of women, including historical discussions of the same. Comprehensive works on the history of women, including works which deal collectively with their socio-economic, political and legal position, participation in historical events, contribution to society, etc. are entered under Women -- History.

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• Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses
• Women -- Social conditions -- Early works to 1800
• Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• Women -- Social conditions -- Great Britain
• Women -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction
• Indian women -- Social conditions
• Purdah
• Women, Black -- Social conditions
• Women, Rajput -- Social conditions
• Women -- Algeria -- Social conditions
• Women -- Australia -- Social conditions
• Women -- China -- Social conditions
• Women -- England -- Social conditions
• Women -- Europe -- Social conditions
• Women -- France -- Social conditions
• Women -- Germany -- Social conditions
• Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
• Women -- India -- Social conditions
• Women -- Indonesia -- Social conditions
• Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions
• Women -- Mozambique -- Social conditions
• Women -- New Zealand -- Social conditions
• Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
• Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions
• Women -- United States -- Social conditions

• 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)
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875), by Abby Morton Diaz
  • PDF at Case Western
  • Gutenberg text
• The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures (1881), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), by Elspeth Strachan and Gordon Strachan (HTML at womenpriests.org)
• 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)
• The Human Woman (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908), by Agnes Geraldine Grove (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Defense of Women (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at Harvard)
• In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken
  • HTML at Eldritch Press
  • Gutenberg text
• In Times Like These (Toronto: McLeod and Allen, 1915), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701), by Mary Lee Chudleigh (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• 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)
• The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (5 dreams; Wellesey, MA: Mrs. E. M. F. Denton, ca. 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (page images at MOA)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (9 dreams; from the book and serial publications, 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Marriage as a Trade (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Cicely Mary Hamilton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Modern Women and What is Said of Them: Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review, With an Introduction (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1868), by E. Lynn Linton, contrib. by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
• The New Womanhood, by Winnifred Harper Cooley (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Helen Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Sex and Society (some essays in this edition from journal versions), by William Isaac Thomas (HTML at Brock)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What Eight Million Women Want (1910), by Rheta Childe Dorr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Woman, Church, and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages, With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate (second edition; New York: The Truth Seeker Company, c1893), by Matilda Joslyn Gage (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman Man's Equal, by Thomas Webster (page images at MOA)
• The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness (dissertation; Chicago: Collegiate Press, 1915), by Jessie Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman's Thoughts About Women, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (HTML at indiana.edu)
• The Women of Tomorrow, by William Hard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Women the World Over: A Sketch Both Light and Gay, Perchance Both Dull and Stupid (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1914), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, illust. by W. K. Haselden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, by John Millar (text at McMaster)
• 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)

• The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, by E. Lynn Linton
  • volume 1: HTML at Indiana
  • volume 2: HTML at Indiana
  • volume 3: HTML at Indiana
• The Beth Book: Being a Study from the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (London: W. Heinemann, 1898), by Sarah Grand (HTML at Emory)
• Munster Village: A Novel (2 volumes; London: Printed for Robson and Co., et al., 1778), by Mary Hamilton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at indiana.edu
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at indiana.edu

• Storm of Life, by Hesba Stretton (HTML in the UK)

• Beauty of Concealment and Concealment of Beauty, by Zahra Rahnavard (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Lindsey Harlan (HTML at UC Press)

• Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara (London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1895), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Autobiography of a Working Woman (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Adelheid Popp, trans. by E. C. Harvey, contrib. by August Bebel and James Ramsay MacDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Jugendgeschichte Einer Arbeiterin (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1909), by Adelheid Popp, contrib. by August Bebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Fraud of Feminism (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1913), by Ernest Belfort Bax (HTML at menstribune.com)
• Letter to the Women Of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (frame-depdendent HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian Women by One of Themselves (London and New York: Harper and Bros, 1908), by Cornelia Sorabji (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mother India (1927), by Katherine Mayo (illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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