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Sex role in literature

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• Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Tara Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Kelly (PDF at PSU)
• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (PDF at Ohio State)
• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2008), by Jaspal Kaur Singh (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Amy Schrager Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Robert Vorlicky
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Amanda Anderson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Laurie Langbauer (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Women Poets and the American Sublime (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), by Joanne Feit Diehl (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)
• Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, by Deborah J. Lyons (HTML at Princeton)
• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : boy heroines and female pages (University of Michigan Press, 1996), by Michael Shapiro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A queer sort of materialism : recontextualizing American theater (University of Michigan Press, 2003), by David Savran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Yasmin Syed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cultures of modernism : Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler, gender and literary community in New York and Berlin (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Cristanne Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Mubtakar fī bayān mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-muʼannath wa-al-mudhakkar (880-04 Bhūpal : Maṭbaʻ al-Shāhjahānī, 1880., 1880), by Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥmad Naqawī, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Carol Colatrella (PDF at Ohio State)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• Womankind (New York: Macmillan and Co.; London: Mozley and Smith, 1877), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Womankind (second edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• 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)
• Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to Dean (1981), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development, ed. by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, and Eudine Barriteau (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Issues of sex bias and sex fairness in career interest measurement (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institute of Education, Career Education Program, 1975), by Esther E. Diamond and National Institute of Education (U.S.). Career Education Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of Freestyle : a television series to reduce sex-role stereotypes (Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1980), by Jerome Johnston, Terrence N. Davidson, and James S. Ettema (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freedom of reach for young children : nonsexist early childhood education (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education :, 1977), by Tish Henslee, Peg Jones, and United States. Office of Education. Women's Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Shahcoolen (1802); a facsimile reproduction (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1962), by Benjamin Silliman and Samuel L. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ėti︠u︡dy o prirodi︠e︡ zhenshchiny i muzhchiny : osnovanīi︠a︡ polovogo i zhenskago voprosov v ikh vzaimnoĭ svi︠a︡zi (Kn-vo Breĭtigama, 1980), by Elizaveta Sergeevna Drentelʹn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sexual stratification : differences in power in the work setting (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 1977), by Wendy Wolf and Neil Fligstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gender matters : rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo (University of Michigan Press, 2000), by Bill Maurer and Alejandro Lugo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman's mission. (John W. Parker, 1839), by Aimé Martin and Sarah Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame & lilies (The Century Co., 1901), by John Ruskin and Decorative Designers (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia moral de las mujeres : el bello sexo vindicado : influencia de la mujer en el progreso y cultura de las naciones, sus deberes, sus derechos en la sociedad y la familia : educación y enseñanza que convendría para su misión : estudio filosófico recreativo (F. Nacente Editor, 1890), by Francisco Nacente (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le problème des sexes. (V. Giard & E. Brière, 1900), by Jacques Lourbet (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ruskin's Sesame and lilies (Silver, Burdett & Company, 1900), by John Ruskin and Agnes Spofford Cook Gale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies (Scott, Foresman and Co., 1920), by John Ruskin and James Weber Linn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home builder (Houghton Mifflin, 1910), by Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes (C. Marhold, 1904), by P. J. Möbius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sesame and lilies : two lectures (Thomas B. Mosher, 1900), by John Ruskin, Smith & Sale, and Thomas B. Mosher (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In alles vrouw (J. Valkhoff, 1909), by F.W. Drijver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman's mission. (J.W. Parker, 1839), by Aime Martin, Sarah Lewis, and Center for Women's History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of life : woman's triumph over man, in three parts (J.T. Carter, 1902), by James Thomas Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex equity in Illinois schools : problems, research and remedies. (State Board of Education, Illinois Office of Education, Women's Educational Equity Task Force, 1977), by Illinois. Women's Educational Equity Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ce que nous devons à la femme (M. Rivière, 1913), by Joseph Valmor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women and politics : political correlates of sex-role acceptance (Institute of Government Research, University of Arizona, 1974), by Thomas J. Volgy and Sandra Sue Volgy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman's work in the home as daughter, as wife, and as mother (James Nisbet, 1895), by F. W. Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies. (J.M. Dent & Co. ;, 1909), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex role socialization and sex discrimination : a synthesis and critique of the literature ([U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institute of Education], 1979), by Constantina Safilios-Rothschild and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build the Canadian house (Ottawa : Dominion of Canada. Department of Health, [1923], 1923), by Helen MacMurchy and Canada. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Mubtakar fī bayān mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-muʼannath wa-al-mudhakkar (880-04 Bhūpal : Maṭbaʻ al-Shāhjahānī, 1880., 1880), by Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥmad Naqawī, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in traditionally male jobs : the experiences of ten public utility companies (Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978., 1978), by United States. Employment and Training Administration, Florence M. Casey, Mary Dean Lee, and Herbert Henry Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die moderne Frau : über die Menschwerdung des Weibes (Zürich : O. Füssli, [1927], 1927), by Paul Bousfield and Siegmund Feilbogen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weiberhaß und Weiberverachtung: Eine Erwiderung auf die in Dr. Otto Weiningers Buche »Geschlecht und Charakter« geäußerten Anschauungen über »Die Frau und ihre Frage« (in German), by Grete Meisel-Hess (Gutenberg ebook)

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