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Lesbians -- Health and hygiene

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• 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)

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

• Because the Boss Belongs to Us: Queer Femmes on Bruce Springsteen (one-time zine; Somerville, MA: The editor, 2011), ed. by Alana Kumbier, contrib. by Christine Bylund, Maggie Cee, Kate Drabinski, Emily Drabinski, Leslie Freeman, and Milo Miller (page images at qzap.org)
• The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (reissued with a new introduction; New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), by Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Mary Casal (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jacqueline Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Lover (New York and London: New York University Press, c1993), by Bertha Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Two Novels: Development and Two Selves (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2000), by Bryher, contrib. by Joanne Winning (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Stone Butch Blues (20th anniversary author edition, c2014), by Leslie Feinberg (PDF with commentary at lesliefeinberg.net)
• The Well of Loneliness (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c1928), by Radclyffe Hall, contrib. by Havelock Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Unlit Lamp (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1924), by Radclyffe Hall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Naked Storm (published under "Simon Eisner" pseudonym; New York: Lion Book, 1952), by C. M. Kornbluth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Lucas Malet (HTML at Indiana)

• Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1892), by Adolphe Belot, trans. by A. D., contrib. by Émile Zola (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Amazon Quarterly (US lesbian feminist arts journal, issues online 1972-1975) (partial serial archives)

• Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Diane Helene Miller (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Empty Closet (full serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• On a Grey Thread (2019 reprint; original text c1923), by Elsa Gidlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2004), ed. by Jim Elledge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, c1996), by Mark Hertzog (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour, by Lori Soderlind (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Pride Guide: An Interactive Workbook for Exploring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History and Places (Washington: National Park Service, 2019)
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2 volumes; Washington: National Park Foundation, c2016), ed. by Megan E. Springate
  • PDF files at fdlp.gov
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Lesbian Connection (selected issues, 1974-1989) (partial serial archives)

• The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jacqueline Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Matt Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1956), by Jeannette H. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2016), by James Patrick Wilper
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Lesbians in the 70's and Before: An at Home Tour at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 2010), by Shawnta Smith (page images at qzap.org)

• 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)
• Physical Beauty: How to Keep It (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1918), by Annette Kellermann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• How to Create the Perfect Baby: By Means of the Art or Science Generally Known as Stirpiculture, or Prenatal Culture and Influence in the Development of a More Perfect Race (Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Pub. Co., c1950), by R. Swinburne Clymer (multiple formats at Google)
• 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)
• Woman: Her Sex and Love Life (21st edition; New York: Eugenics Pub. Co., 1929), by William J. Robinson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• 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)

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