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• Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Oriental Women (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v4; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by Edward B. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Joan Judge and Hu Ying (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Joan Judge and Hu Ying (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, and Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by Hyaeweol Choi (HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), ed. by María Luz Cruz-Torres and Pamela D. McElwee (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Torunn Wimpelmann (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

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

• Correspondence Respecting the Alleged Existence of Chinese Slavery in Hong Kong: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty (London: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswood for H.M.S.O., 1882), contrib. by John Pope-Hennessy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at Oregon Digial

• 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)
• The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood (Boston and Chicago: United Society Christian Endeavor, c1900), by Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller, contrib. by Ramabai Sarasvati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother India (c1927), by Katherine Mayo (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2018), by Rebecca Corbett (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Haremlik: Some Pages From The Life of Turkish Women (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1909), by Demetra Vaka
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (c2014), ed. by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India: Being a Collection of Opinions, For and Against (Mumbai: Printed at the "Voice of India" Printing Press, 1887), by Behramji M. Malabari
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)

• The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Torunn Wimpelmann (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Torunn Wimpelmann (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Sultana's Dream, by Begama Rokeẏā (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Sultana's Dream, by Begama Rokeẏā (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Letters From China, With Particular Reference To The Empress Dowager and the Women of China (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Sarah Pike Conger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland (Gutenberg text)
• Court Life in China (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1909), by Isaac Taylor Headland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Old China and Young America (Chicago: F. G. Browne and Co., 1913), by Sarah Pike Conger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pagoda Shadows: Studies From Life in China (third edition; Boston: W. G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ling Long (Chinese women's magazine, 1931-1937) (partial serial archives)

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

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

• The Englishwoman in India (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1909), by Maud Diver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife (London: Marshall Brothers, 1895), by Shevantibai M. Nikambe, contrib. by Lucy Ada Jervis Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in India (London: Chapman and Hall, 1895), by Mary Frances Billington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women of India (Mumbai: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co., ca. 1920), by Otto Rothfield, illust. by M. V. Dhurandhar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Yes, Lady Saheb": A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The High-Caste Hindu Woman (Philadelphia: Press of the J. B. Rodgers Printing Co., 1887), by Ramabai Sarasvati, contrib. by Rachel L. Bodley
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Pandita Ramabai: The Widows' Friend (Australasian edition of "The High-Caste Hindu Woman"), by Ramabai Sarasvati, contrib. by Manoramabai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six Months in India (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868), by Mary Carpenter
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Web of Indian Life (1904), by Sister Nivedita (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Letters From India (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Anne C. Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dark Princess: A Romance (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1928), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pool in the Desert, by Sara Jeannette Duncan (Gutenberg text)

• Persian Women and Their Ways: The Experiences and Impressions of a Long Sojourn Amongst the Women of the Land of the Shah, With an Intimate Description of Their Characteristics, Customs and Manner of Living (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1923), by C. Colliver Rice (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Persian Women and Their Ways: The Experiences and Impressions of a Long Sojourn Amongst the Women of the Land of the Shah, With an Intimate Description of Their Characteristics, Customs and Manner of Living (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1923), by C. Colliver Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatima is Fatima, by Ali Shariati, trans. by Laleh Bakhtiar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Persian Women and Their Creed (London: Church Missionary Society, 1899), by Mary R. S. Bird (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women and Wisdom of Japan (London: J. Murray, 1909), by Kaibara Ekiken, contrib. by Shingoro Takaishi (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women and Wisdom of Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1910), by Kaibara Ekiken, contrib. by Shingoro Takaishi (page images at HathiTrust)

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