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• Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• In Our Own Voices: Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women (Brookline, MA: Jewish Women's Archive, c2005), ed. by Jayne K. Guberman (PDF with commentary at jwa.org)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Robin Ruth Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Great Jewish Women (New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1940), by Elma Ehrlich Levinger, illust. by Marcile Weist Stalter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sheaf of Leaves (Chicago: Printed privately, 1911), by Hannah G. Solomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Women of Israel (2 volumes in 1; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887), by Grace Aguilar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (online edition, continuously updated) (illustrated HTML at jwa.org)

• Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (online edition, continuously updated) (illustrated HTML at jwa.org)

• Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (online edition, continuously updated) (illustrated HTML at jwa.org)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• I am a Woman, and a Jew (fifth edition of a fictional autobiography of "Leah Morton"; New York: J. H. Sears and Co., 1927), by Elizabeth G. Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miriam, or, The Power of Truth: A Jewish Tale (third edition; Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1836), by Charlotte Anley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miriam, or, The Power of Truth: A Jewish Tale (new edition; Philadelphia: Griffith and Simon, 1847), by Charlotte Anley, contrib. by John Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf (Gutenberg text)

• Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2006), by Benjamin Maria Baader (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), ed. by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), ed. by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2016), by Margalit Shilo
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2016), by Margalit Shilo
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2016), by Margalit Shilo
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (1997-) (full serial archives)

• A Partner in the Dynamic of Creation: Womanhood in the Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• #UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), by Keren R. McGinity (PDF with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• American Women: The Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women (1963), by United States President's Commission on the Status of Women (PDF at dol.gov)
• Colonial Dames and Good Wives (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., c1895), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ruminations: The Ideal American Lady and Other Essays (second edition, 1894), by Paul Siegvolk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in the Making of America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1912), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of America (New York and London: MacMillan, 1904), by Elizabeth McCracken
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1912), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at Harvard)
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States: Supplement (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1922), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Women and the World War (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ida Clyde Clarke (illustrated HTML at BYU)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., c1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., ca. 1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Noble Deeds of American Women, by Jesse Clement (page images at MOA)
• Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times (Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1884), contrib. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary A. Livermore, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Marion Harland, Mary Clemmer, Louise Chandler Moulton, A. D. T. Whitney, Lucy Larcom, Julia Ward Howe, Susan Coolidge, Kate Sanborn, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, Laura Curtis Bullard, Lilian Whiting, Elizabeth T. Spring, Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, and Maud Howe Elliott
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capitola the Madcap: Part II of The Hidden Hand, by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (Gutenberg text)
• Capitola's Peril: A Sequel to The Hidden Hand (or part 2 of the long version; New York: A. L. Burt Co., n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (Gutenberg text)
• The Hidden Hand (complete (both parts I and II); New York: A. L. Burt, n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Hidden Hand (part I; continued in "Capitola's Peril"; Chicago: M. A. Donohue, n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Wayward Pardner: or, My Trials with Josiah, America, The Widow Bump, and Etcetery (Hartford, CT: American Pub. Co., 1895), by Marietta Holley, illust. by True Williams (page images at Harvard)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text
• Wits and the Woman (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1919), by Violet Irwin, illust. by Christine Tucke Curtiss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1931), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1893), by Marietta Holley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867), by John William De Forest (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Virginia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Ellen Glasgow
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

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