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• Domestic Violence Handbook: A Survivor's Guide (revised edition, 2008), by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at ojp.gov)

• Violence Against Women: A National Survey (2003), by Shahana Rasool, Kerry Vermaak, Robyn Pharoah, Antoinette Louw, and Aki Stavrou (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The Child Welfare Movement (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Janet E. Lane-Claypon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• The Incubator Baby (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), by Ellis Parker Butler (page images at neonatology.org)

• Report of the New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers: Transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1914 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Co., 1914), by New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers, contrib. by Sophie Irene Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2001), ed. by Kathleen D. McCarthy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Girl of the People, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• A Girl of the People: A Novel (Montreal: J. Lovell, c1890), by L. T. Meade (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Jean H. Quataert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, Under the Direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner: Embracing the Support and Care of a Hospital, Infant and Industrial Schools, and a Female Penitentiary (published anonymously, but attributed to Nightingale in some sources; London: Printed by the inmates of the London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851), contrib. by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Report of the Colored Home, by Colored Home (New York, N.Y.) (partial serial archives)

• Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American; With the Story of the Chicago Training School, for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home (second edition; Chicago: Message Pub. Co., c1889), by Lucy Rider Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Great American Foundresses (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Joseph B. Code (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)
• Recommendations for Research on the Health of Military Women: Bibliographies (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 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)

• When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Leslie J. Reagan (HTML at UC Press)

• Preventing Low Birthweight: Summary (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider (1995), ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (PDF at IDRC)

• Intorno all'Ospizio Provinciale Degli Esposti e Delle Partorienti in Milano, by Ospizio provinciale degli esposti e delle partorienti (Milan, Italy), contrib. by Romolo Griffini (partial serial archives)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Antenatal Care: Routine Care for the Healthy Pregnant Woman (London: RCOG Press, 2008), by National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)
• A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (third edition; c2000), by Murray Enkin, Marc J. N. C. Keirse, James Neilson, Caroline Crowther, Lelia Duley, Ellen Hodnett, and Justus Hofmeyr (PDF files with commentary at childbirthconnection.org)
• 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)

• Intorno all'Ospizio Provinciale Degli Esposti e Delle Partorienti in Milano, by Ospizio provinciale degli esposti e delle partorienti (Milan, Italy), contrib. by Romolo Griffini (partial serial archives)

• A Plan for a Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes (London: R. Francklin, 1758), by John Fielding (multiple formats at Google)

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

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.