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• La Polizia dei Costumi a Tripoli, con Cenni Storici Sulla Prostituzione (in Italian; Lugo, Tip. editrice Trisi, 1922), by Luigi Salerno (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Nancy Levit (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law and Social Policy (and predecessor titles, 1992-2015) (full serial archives)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• Statement of the Relations of Rufus W. Griswold With Charlotte Myers (Called Charlotte Griswold), Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ann S. Stephens, Samuel J. Waring, Hamilton R. Searles, and Charles D. Lewis, With Particular Reference to Their Late Unsuccessful Attempt to Have Set Aside the Decree Granted in 1852 by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, in the Case of Griswold vs. Griswold (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1856), by Rufus W. Griswold
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Marital Property in Conflict of Laws (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1952), by Harold Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• How Like a God (first published 1929; this edition New York: Pyramid Books, 1963), by Rex Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Legal Status of Homemakers in Rhode Island (Washington: Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance on International Women's Year, 1977), by Sheila Cabral-Sousa and Mildred White Tracey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statistical Analysis of American Divorce (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #360; New York: Columbia University Press; London: P. S. King and Son, 1932), by Alfred Cahen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Law for the Clergy, by Sanford A. Hudson (page images at MOA)

• Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1868), by Horatio Robinson Storer and Franklin Fiske Heard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• 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 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal Ramifications of the Human Life Amendment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session on S.J. Res. 3, Joint Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Establish Legislative Authority in Congress and the States With Respect to Abortion (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Aspects of the Right to Limit Childbearing (typescript report, also including Supreme Court opinions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton; 1975), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Leslie J. Reagan (HTML at UC Press)

• The Effect of Changes in the State Abortion Laws (Rockville, MD: US Maternal and Child Health Service, 1971), by Edward A. Duffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization, and Abortion: An Analysis of Laws and Policies in the United States, Each State and Jurisdiction (As of October 1, 1976 with 1978 Addenda) (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Community Health Services, 1978), by Alan Guttmacher Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws Concerning Birth Control in the United States (c1929), by Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, contrib. by Margaret Sanger (page images at Harvard)

• Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization, and Abortion: An Analysis of Laws and Policies in the United States, Each State and Jurisdiction (As of October 1, 1976 with 1978 Addenda) (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Community Health Services, 1978), by Alan Guttmacher Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario (Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1874), by Richard Thomas Walkem (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Treatise on the Law Relating to Marriages in Lower Canada (Montreal: Printed by J. Lovell, 1857), by James Sherrard Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "Trivial Complaints": The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law And activism in the U.S. (c2008), by Kirsten S. Rambo (HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Domestic Violence Handbook: A Survivor's Guide (revised edition, 2008), by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at ojp.gov)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Test Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life (Hamlyn Lectures, #47; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1996), by Brenda Hale (PDF in the UK)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• Darby and Joan: or, The Reward of Contentment (Baltimore, ca. 1829) (page images at uncg.edu)

• Le Domostroï (Ménagier Russe du XVIe Siècle): Traduction et Commentaire (in French; Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1910), ed. by E. Duchesne, contrib. by Sil'vestr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• Colasterion, by John Milton (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Marriage Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies, of the Nations of the Universe (London: J. Smith, 1822), by Augusta Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tetrachordon, by John Milton (illustrated HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)

• Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter (2001), by Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission
  • PDF files at waybackmachine.org
  • PDF files at archive.org

• Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Joel Best (PDF at Ohio State)

• Cyberporn, Protecting Our Children from the Back Alleys of the Internet: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, July 26, 1995 (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States House Subcommittee on Basic Research and United States House Subcommittee on Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (aka the Meese Commission report; 2 volumes; 1986), by United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)

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