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• No More Alibis! (Chicago: Photoplay Pub. Co., 1935), by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)

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• No More Alibis! (Chicago: Photoplay Pub. Co., 1935), by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Conduct of Physical Education: Its Organization and Administration (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1937), by Mabel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Athletic Games in the Education of Women (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by Gertrude Dudley and Frances Kellor (page images at HathiTrust)

• When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2006), by Patricia Campbell Warner (PDF files at umass.edu)

• The Healthy Woman: A Complete Guide for All Ages (2008), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women (1997), by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, and Katharine Shapiro, ed. by Sandy Niemann (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider (1995), ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (PDF at IDRC)
• Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: The NICE Guideline on Clinical Management and Service Guidance (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2007), by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)
• Advice to a Wife on the Management of Her Own Health: and on the Treatment of Some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour, and Suckling, With an Introductory Chapter Especially Addressed to the Young Wife (c.1879), by Pye Henry Chavasse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Book for Midwives (revised edition, ca. 2005), by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, and Fiona Thomson (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• The Four Epochs of Woman's Life: A Study in Hygiene (1915 edition), by Anna M. Galbraith (Gutenberg text)
• The Modern Mother: A Guide to Girlhood, Motherhood, and Infancy (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., ca. 1909), by H. Laing Gordon, illust. by Rene Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother (Toronto: MacLear, 1871), by George Henry Napheys (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Physiologist: or, Sexual Physiology Revealed (translated from the fourth Paris edition; Boston: Printed for the translator, 1845), by Eugène Becklard, trans. by M. Sherman Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Preparation for Motherhood (Philadelphia: H. Altemus, c1896), by Elisabeth Robinson Scovil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (revised edition; New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1911), by Alice B. Stockham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the "Problems of Sex" (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Adele E. Clarke (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Etiquette of Beauty (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1927), by Dorothy Cocks, illust. by Josephine Arnold Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Athletic Games in the Education of Women (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by Gertrude Dudley and Frances Kellor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Girls (New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Dio Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sex in Education: or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875), by Edward H. Clarke
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Cornell
• The Well-Dressed Woman: A Study in the Practical Application to Dress of the Laws of Health, Art, and Morals (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., 1892), by Helen Gilbert Ecob
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Woman's Dress, a Question of the Day (1894), by Lelia Ada Davis (page images at canadiana.org)
• No More Alibis! (Chicago: Photoplay Pub. Co., 1935), by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex and Education: A Reply to Dr. E. H. Clarke's "Sex in Education" (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874), ed. by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War-Time Cook and Health Book (ca. 1917), by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company (page images at Duke)
• 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, ON: Book and Bible House, 1890), ed. by B. F. Austin, contrib. by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• The Health Gap: Beyond Pregnancy and Reproduction (1996), by Jennifer Kitts and Janet Hatcher Roberts (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World (1989), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (2007), by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PDF at NIH)
• Kansas Mothers Manual (various editions (plus earlier "Kansas Mothers' Book"), 1922-1944), by Kansas State Board of Health (PDF files at Kansas State Library)
• Kansas Mothers' Book (special issue of Bulletin of the Kansas State Board of Health; 1917), by Kansas State Board of Health (PDF files at Kansas State Library)

• Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies (2 volumes; 1994), ed. by Anna C. Mastroianni, Ruth R. Faden, and Daniel D. Federman
  • Volume 1: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2: page images with commentary at NAP

• A Lifetime of Good Health: Your Guide to Staying Healthy (ca. 2005), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF at womenshealth.gov)
• In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues (1997), by Beryl Lieff Benderly (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Women's Health (OTA-BP-BA-88; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future, ed. by Andrea L. Solarz (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future, ed. by Andrea L. Solarz (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Young Women Past Forty: A Modern Sex and Health Primer of the Critical Years (New York: Herald Pub. Co., c1934), by Edward Podolsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women, ed. by Cora Lee Wetherington and Adele B. Roman (PDF files at NIH)

• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy (2013), by Linda Crossett (multiple formats at archive.org via newrambler.net)

• Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women (Oxford, OH: Anchor Press, 1940), by Thomas Elyot, ed. by Edwin J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divinity of Woman: Her Superiority Over Man (third edition revised; Los Angeles: Filipino Federation of America, 1927), by Hilario Camino Moncado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Woman Regenerate Society? (London: John W. Parker, 1844), by Anne Richelieu Lamb Dryden (page images at Google)
• Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912), by Margaret Collier Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epistles on Women, by Lucy Aikin (HTML at Michigan)
• An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex: In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c., In a Letter to a Lady (attributed variously to Astell or Drake; London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696), contrib. by Mary Astell and Judith Drake
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (in Latin and English, based on editions of 1529 and 1670), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by Henry Care (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers, by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (HTML at Virginia)
• The Nature of Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by J. Lionel Tayler, contrib. by William Caldwell Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Powder-Puff: A Ladies' Breviary (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Franz Blei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World; To Which Are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguise of Dress (Boston: T. Abbot, 1841) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Sum of Feminine Achievement: A Critical and Analytical Study of Woman's Contribution to the Intellectual Progress of the World (Boston: The Stratford Company, 1917), by W. A. Newman Dorland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in All Ages and in All Countries (10 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907-1908), contrib. by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward B. Pollard, Pierce Butler, John R. Effinger, Hugo P. Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, and John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg texts and illustrated HTML)
• Women and Other Women: Essays in Wisdom (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)

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