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Respect Life Report (selected issues, 1980-1988), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Pro-Life Activities (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States

Constitutional amendments relating to abortion hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on S.J. Res. 17, S.J. Res. 18, S.J. Res. 19, and S.J. Res. 110 ... October 5, 14, 19, November 4, 5, 12, 16, December 7, and 16, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 1912, to protect the reproductive rights of women, and other purposes, March 27 and May 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Pro-choice movement -- United States

Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 1912, to protect the reproductive rights of women, and other purposes, March 27 and May 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Clinic blockades : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, May 6, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women's rights -- United States

What is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation? (ca.1970), by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood (page images at Duke)
Chicanas Speak Out: Women: New Voice of La Raza (1971), by Mirta Vidal (page images at Duke)
Constitutional Equality a Right of Woman (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1871), by Tennessee Claflin Cook (multiple formats at LOC)
The New Godiva: A Dialogue; and A Letter to the International Convention of Women at Washington, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
Woman's Rights (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by John Todd (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women (Washington: Committee on the Legal Status of Women, National League of Women Voters, 1929), by Ethel Marion Smith (multiple formats at LOC)
Common Sense About Women (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1882), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
The Legal Status of Women (Political Science Study Series v2 #4; c1897), by Jessie J. Cassidy (page images at loc.gov)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Boston: I. Knapp, 1838), by Sarah Moore Grimké (page images at HathiTrust)
My Summer in the Kitchen (Indianapolis: Douglass and Carlon, 1878), by Hetty A. Morrison
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The Speech of Sara Bard Field: Presenting to Congress on Behalf of the Women of the Nation, the Marble Busts of Three Suffrage Pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady, Susan Brownell Anthony (1921), by Sara Bard Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw (page images at loc.gov)
Women, a documentary of progress during the administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977 to 1981 (Executive Office of the President?], 1981), by Barbara Haugen and United States Executive Office of the President (page images at HathiTrust)
Child care and equal opportunity for women. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1981), by Bonnie Mathews, James A. Levine, and United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
"... to form a more perfect union ..." : justice for American women : report of the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. ([Dept. of State] : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year (page images at HathiTrust)
Statement on the equal rights amendment. (Commission on Civil Rights : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
Women. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights amendment : a workshop guide. (National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year (page images at HathiTrust)
Ladies in revolt (The Womans Press, 1934), by Abbie Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights for men and women : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, seventy-third Congress, first session, on S. J. Res., 1. a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the equal rights for men and women. May 27, 1933. Printed for the use of the Committee of the judiciary. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1933), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
World court : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, first session, relative to Executive A (71st Congress), protocols concerning adherence of the United States to the Court of International Justice, April 6 and May 7, 1932. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1932), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman and the new race (New York : Truth Publishing Company, [1920], 1920), by Margaret Sanger and Havelock Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
The legal rights of women : adapted for use in every state by means of a brief synopsis of the laws relating to property rights, dower, divorce, the rights of a widow in the estate of her husband, etc. Containing also much other helpful information, advice and direction for women in every walk of life (Woman's publishing company, 1913), by Lemuel Hill Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
Sex and equality. (Arno Press, 1974) (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitutional equality a right of woman; or, A consideration of the various relations which she sustains as a necessary part of the body of society and humanity; with her duties to herself--together with a review of the Constitution of the United States, showing that the right to vote is guaranteed to all citizens. Also a review of the rights of children. (Woodhull, Claflin & co., 1871), by Tennessee Claflin Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
Voices for women : 1980 report of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. (President's Advisory Committee for Women :, 1980), by United States. President's Advisory Committee for Women (page images at HathiTrust)
Earnings sharing implementation plan hearing before the Task Force on Social Security and Women of the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment and the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, April 12, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Task Force on Social Security and Women and United States Select Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
Women and equality (Worker's Library Publishers, 1935), by Margaret Cowl (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights amendment extension hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 134 ... August 2, 3, and 4, 1978. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal programs benefiting women and new initiatives as follow-up to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (President's Interagency Council on Women :, 1997), by President's Interagency Council on Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights amendment hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session on H.J. Res. 1 ... July 13, September 14, October 20, 26, and November 3, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
Civil Rights Act of 1990 hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on S. 2104 ... February 23, 27, March 1, and 7, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 1912, to protect the reproductive rights of women, and other purposes, March 27 and May 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights for women : a speech (Michigan Woman Suffrage Association, 1872), by George William Curtis and Michigan Woman Suffrage Association (page images at HathiTrust)
The equal rights amendment : questions and answers (The Commission, 1973), by Michigan Women's Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Record of President Jimmy Carter on women's issues (the Office of Sarah Weddington, 1980), by United States. Interdepartmental Task Force on Women (page images at HathiTrust)
Hit (American News Co., 1871), by Mary Edwards Walker and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
Half a century. (Jansen, McClurg & company, 1880), by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the Free Convention : held at Rutland, Vt., July 25th, 26th, and 27th, 1858. (J.B. Yerrinton and Son, 1858), by Vt.) Free Convention (1858 : Rutland and Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery pamphlet collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Toward equal rights for men and women (Committee on the legal status of women, National league of women voters, 1929), by Ethel M. Smith and National League of Women Voters (U.S.). Dept. of Legal Status of Women (page images at HathiTrust)
The rights and responsibilities of women : recommendations of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Women, 1973, 1974. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975), by Education United States. Dept. of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on women in America (The Commission : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, first session, on H.J. Res.1 ... July 13, September 14, October 20, 26, and November 3, 1983. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1990., 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
The women's uprising : a sermon of the Women's Congress held in Chicago, May 15-21, 1893 (Unity Pub. Co., 1893), by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
The speech of Sara Bard Field, presenting to Congress on behalf of the women of the nation, the marble busts of three suffrage pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady [sic], Susan Brownell Anthony. (s.n.], 1921), by Sara Bard Field and John Henry Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
Discover E.R.A. : equal rights & equal responsibilities (The League, 1976), by League of Women Voters of Indiana (page images at HathiTrust)
After Houston. (The Commission, 1978), by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and National Women's Conference (1st : 1977 : Houston) (page images at HathiTrust)
Selected women's issues legislation enacted between 1832-1988 (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1989), by Leslie Gladstone and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
The "equal rights" amendment. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 61 ... May 5, 6, and 7, 1970. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (page images at HathiTrust)
Women in clinical studies (Office of Research on Women's Health, Office of the Director, National Institutes of health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1994), by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Task Force on the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Studies and National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health (page images at HathiTrust)
The proposed equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution : a memorandum [presented to the Council by its study group on equal legal rights] (Washington, 1970), by Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
" ... to form a more perfect union ..." : justice for American women (U.S. G.P.O., 1976), by United States National Commission on the Observance of Int'l. Women's Year (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights for men and women 1971. Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on H.J. Res. 35, 208, and related bills ... and H.R. 916 and related bills ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 (page images at HathiTrust)
Early woman's rights documents (Prentiss & Sawyer, 1851), by National Woman's Rights Convention (1st : 1850 : Worcester) (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's rights tracts (R.F. Wallcut, 1854), by Caroline Wells Healey Dall, C. I. H. Nichols, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill, Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1853), and National Woman's Rights Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
American womanhood : its peculiarities and necessities (Austin, Jackson & Co. :, 1870), by James C. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman of yesterday and to-day (The Co-operative Press, 1910), by Theresa Serber Malkiel (page images at HathiTrust)
Half a century (J.G. Swisshelm, 1880), by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (page images at HathiTrust)
Address of Stephen D. Dillaye, before the County Convention, at the City Hall, Syracuse, March 18th, 1869, in favor of female suffrage, on presenting the report of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions to the Convention. (Masters & Lee, Printers and Binders ..., 1869), by Stephen D. Dillaye and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitutional equality, a right of woman, or a consideration of the various relations which she sustains as a necessary part of the body of society and humanity; with her duties to herself - together with a review of the constitution of the United States, showing that the right to vote is guaranteed to all citizens. Also a review of the rights of children (Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2008), by Tennessee Claflin Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
History of woman suffrage (Susan B. Anthony ;, 1887), by Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, and National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's rights tracts. (National-American Suffrage Association, 1897), by Jessie Jane Cassidy Saunders and National American Woman Suffrage Association (page images at HathiTrust)
History of woman suffrage (National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889), by Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, League of Women Voters of Boston, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, and Ida Husted Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
World Court : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Seventy-Second Congress, first session, on Apr. 6, May 7, 1932. (U.S. G.P.O., 1932), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2012), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (page images at HathiTrust)
Women in 1970. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1971), by Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Every woman's right : the right to quality education and economic independence (Women's Educational Equity Act Program, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1981), by Lupe Anguiano, Cecilia Felicia Cota-Robles Suárez, and National Chicana Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the yearly meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, : held at Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y. the 3d, 4th and 5th of June, 1859. (Press of C.W. Hebard & Co., Daily Express Office, 1859), by Friends of Human Progress, Frederick Douglass, and C.W. Hebard & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Equal rights for men and women. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, on S. J. Res. 65, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1938), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's duties and rights : the woman's congress : an address to the women of America : also women in charitable and religious societies (Claxton, Remsen & Hafflefinger, 1876), by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
Amend the Constitution relative to equal rights for men and women : statements presented to Subcommittee no. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session on H.J. Res. 1, H.J. Res. 5, H.J. Res. 30, H.J. Res. 42, H.J. Res. 49, H.J. Res. 66, H.J. Res. 71, H.J. Res. 80, H.J. Res. 82, and H.J. Res. 96, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women ... (U.S. G.P.O., 1945), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 2 (page images at HathiTrust)
The Woman's rights almanac for 1858 : containing facts, statistics, arguments, records of progress, and proofs of the need of it. (Z. Baker, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
The legal status of women in the United States of America : United States summary as of January 1, 1953 (U.S. G.P.O, 1956), by Laura H. Dale, Laura H. Harris, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
A survey of the legal status of women in the forty-eight states : following the program of the Committee on Uniform Laws Concerning Women, National League of Women Voters (The League, 1983), by National League of Women Voters (U.S.). Committee on Uniform Laws Concerning Women (page images at HathiTrust)
The proposed equal rights amendment (Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 1972), by Morrigene Holcomb Van Helden and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
How women can best serve the state : an address before the State Federation of Women's Clubs, Troy, N.Y., October 30, 1907 (Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1907), by Alida Blake Hazard, Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, and New York State Federation of Women's Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
Progress and prospects : the report of the Second National Conference of Governors' Commissions on the Status of Women ... July 28-30, 1965. (The Conference, 1965), by D.C.) National Conference of Governors' Commissions on the Status of Women (2nd : 1965 : Washington, Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.), and United States. Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer (Arena Publishing Co., 1895), by D. C. Bloomer (page images at HathiTrust)
Status of administration action on International Women's Year resolutions : message (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Proposed equal rights amendment extension : report together with concurring, supplemental, additional, individual, separate, dissenting, and minority views to accompany H.J. Res. 638. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman. : Addressed to Mary S. Parker, president of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. (Published by Isaac Knapp, 25, Cornhill, 1838), by Sarah Grimké, Isaac Knapp, and Mary S. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
Susan B. Anthony (The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899), by Ida Husted Harper and Bowen-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer, by D. C. Bloomer (Gutenberg ebook)
Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman, by Sarah Grimké (Gutenberg ebook)
Woman, Church & State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex, by Matilda Joslyn Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
Half a Century, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (Gutenberg ebook)

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