Women -- History
Here are entered comprehensive works on the history of women, including works which deal collectively with their socio-economic, political and legal position, participation in historical events, contribution to society, etc. Works which deal specifically with their social condition and status, including historical discussions of the same, are entered under Women -- Social conditions.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Women -- History -- 18th century
- Women -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- History -- Early works to 1800
- Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Women -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
- Women -- History -- Periodicals
- Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
- Feminism -- History
- Jewish women -- History
- Man-woman relationships -- History
- Photography of women -- History
- Women -- Biography
- Women in literature -- History
- Women in motion pictures -- History
- Women's rights -- History
- Women -- America -- History
- Women -- Asia -- History
- Women -- Australia -- History
- Women -- Books and reading -- History
- Women -- Canada -- History
- Women -- Canada, Western -- History
- Women -- China -- History
- Women -- Education -- History
- Women -- Egypt -- History
- Women -- Employment -- History
- Women -- England -- History
- Women -- Europe -- History
- Women -- France -- History
- Women -- Germany -- History
- Women -- Great Britain -- History
- Women -- Greece -- History
- Women -- Italy -- History
- Women -- Japan -- History
- Women -- Korea -- History
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
- Women -- Middle East -- History
- Women -- Mozambique -- Magude District -- History
- Women -- North Carolina -- History
- Women -- Rome -- History
- Women -- Russia -- History
- Women -- Sexual behavior -- History
- Women -- Southern States -- History
- Women -- Soviet Union -- History
- Women -- Spain -- History
- Women -- Suffrage -- History
- Women -- United States -- History
- Women -- Utah -- History
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Women's history
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The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)- The Awakening of Women: or, Woman's Part in Evolution (second edition; London: W. Reeves, ca. 1905), by Frances Swiney (page images at HathiTrust)
- British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1894), by C. C. Stopes
- Ester Hath Hang'd Haman, by Ester Sowernam (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The Feminist Movement (London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear Type Press, ca. 1912), by Ethel Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Emily James Putnam
- The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (London: Watts and Co., 1908), by Joseph McCabe, contrib. by Florence Dixie
- Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Long Road of Woman's Memory, by Jane Addams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The War and the Women (New York: Metropolitan Magazine Co., 1915), by Israel Zangwill
- 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)
- Women of the Teutonic Nations (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v8; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by Hermann Schoenfeld (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life: Four Papers from The Boston Courier for 1858, by George Lunt (page images at MOA)
- The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Eighteenth-Century Woman (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Olivier Bernier (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, by John Millar (text at McMaster)
- Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Gender and Historiography: Studies in the Earlier Middle Ages in Honour of Pauline Stafford (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2012), ed. by Janet L. Nelson, Susan Reynolds, and Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Craig M. Rustici (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
- Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300, by Heath Dillard (PDF files at Libro)
- Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature (New York: King's Crown Press, 1943), by Muriel Joy Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Of Six Mediaeval Women: To Which is Added, A Note on Mediaeval Gardens (London: Macmillan and Co., 1913), by Alice Kemp-Welch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman (new and complete edition; New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley
- Women's History (full serial archives)
- Haec-Vir, or, The Womanish-Man: Being an Answere to a Late Booke Intituled Hic-Mulier (London: Printed for I. T., 1620) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hic Mulier, or, The Man-Woman (1620) (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- The Eighteenth-Century Woman (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Olivier Bernier (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Eminent Women of the Age (page images at MOA)
- Excellent Women, by Various Writers (compilation of Religious Tract Society publications, London, late 1800s) (Gutenberg text)
- Female Biography: or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries, Alphabetically Arranged (first American edition; 3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for Byrch and Small, 1807), by Mary Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Group of Famous Women: Stories of Their Lives (Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1914), by Edith Horton (page images at Harvard)
- Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1870), by Mrs. Jameson, ed. by Mary E. Hewitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lives of Celebrated Women (Boston: Bradbury, Soden and Co., 1844), by Samuel G. Goodrich
- Lives of Celebrated Women (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lives of Girls Who Became Famous (1914), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Queens of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Charles Altamont Doyle, George Dalziel, and Edward Dalziel (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Thumb Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1895), ed. by Clara C. Chapin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- True Stories of Girl Heroines (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Everett-Green, illust. by E. F. Sherie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Woman's Record: or, Sketches Of All Distinguished Women, From "The Beginning" till A.D. 1850, Arranged In Four Eras; With Selections From Female Writers Of Every Age (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, illust. by Lossing & Barritt
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Daughters of the Cross: or, Woman's Mission, by Daniel C. Eddy
- Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, From the Mythological Ages to the Present Era (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1879), by Ellen C. Clayton
- Heroines of the Crusades (Auburn and Rochester: Alden and Beardsley, 1857), by C. A. Bloss (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Memoirs of Royal Ladies (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Emily Sarah Holt
- Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches, To Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: Printed by J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), by Augusta Joyce Crocheron (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Romance of Biography: or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, From the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age (third edition, 2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mrs. Jameson
- Women of Early Christianity (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v3; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, c1907), by Alfred Brittain and Mitchell Carroll, contrib. by Joseph Cullen Ayer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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