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• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

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• 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)
• 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 (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Cracking the Bro Code (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Coleen Carrigan (PDF at MIT)

• Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies, ed. by Barbara F. Reskin (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Women's Rights Handbook (1998), by California Office of the Attorney General (HTML and PDF at ca.gov)

• Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories (originally published 1985; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Jean Reith Schroedel, contrib. by Jane LaTour (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Sex Bias in the U.S. Code (1977), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by Brenda Feigen-Fasteau and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (PDF at Maryland)
• Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual (Washington: Office for Civil Rights, Dept. of Education, 1990), by Valerie McMurtie Bonnette and Lamar Daniel
  • PDF at ed.gov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Job (1986), ed. by Barbara F. Reskin and Heidi I. Hartmann (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close, or Widen, Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2023), by Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, and Amy Raub (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Wild Justice, by Ruth Sprague (Gutenberg text)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Thoughts on the Condition of Women, and on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (second edition; London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799), by Mary Darby Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times (c2010), ed. by Margaret Thornton (HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Women and the Law (originally published 1984; this edition London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, 2018), by Susan Atkins and Brenda Hale (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Women or Men: Who Are the Victims? (c2000), by Erin Pizzey, J. R. Shackleton, and Peter Urwin, contrib. by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (revised edition, c2005), by Cynthia Rothschild, ed. by Scott Long and Susana T. Fried (PDF at iglhrc.org)
• Ancilla's Share: An Indictment of Sex Antagonism (second edition originally published anonymously in 1924; reprinted Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976), by Elizabeth Robins (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• It’s a Man’s World (Wide Web): A Critical Analysis of Online Misogyny and Hate Speech (Bologna: Boninia University Press, 2020), by Beatrice Spallaccia (PDF with commentary in Italy)
• 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

• Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times (c2010), ed. by Margaret Thornton (HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2007), ed. by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Sarah Hamilton (page images at Pitt)

• Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (Canberra: Australian National University E Press, c2012), by Nicole Louise George (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)

• Women or Men: Who Are the Victims? (c2000), by Erin Pizzey, J. R. Shackleton, and Peter Urwin, contrib. by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León de Leal (page images at Pitt)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
  • Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

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