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• Women and the Law (originally published 1984; this edition London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, 2018), by Susan Atkins and Brenda Hale (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
• A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)
• Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women (1869), by Frances Power Cobbe (HTML at Indiana)
• The Laws Respecting Women, as They Regard Their Natural Rights or Their Connections and Conduct: In Which Their Interests and Duties as Daughters, Wards, Heiresses, Spinsters, Sisters, Wives, Widows, Mothers, Legatees, Executrixes, etc., are Ascertained and Enumerated; Also, the Obligations of Parent and Child, and the Condition of Minors (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legal Subjection of Men (new edition; London: The New Age Press, 1908), contrib. by Ernest Belfort Bax
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Women's Charter of Rights and Liberties ("preliminary draft"; London: J. Sewell, 1909), by Laura Elizabeth McLaren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women, by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (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

• The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen (London: Printed by the assignment of I. More, 1632) (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), ed. by Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, contrib. by Martha Minow, Kathryn Abrams, Judy Scales-Trent, Carol Sanger, Angela P. Harris, Linda Brodkey, Michelle Fine, Elizabeth Cullingford, Susan Estrich, Rita Copeland, Margaret Anne Doody, Christine L. Krueger, and Anne Tierney Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Woman and Her Wishes, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• "Better and Happier": An Answer from the Ladies' Gallery to the Speeches in Opposition to the Women's Suffrage Bill, February 28th, 1908 (London: T. Fisher, ca. 1908), by Laura Elizabeth McLaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Legal Status of Women of Alberta, As Shown by Extracts from Dominion and Provincial Laws (second edition, 1921), by Henrietta Muir Edwards (page images at ualberta.ca)

• Women's Rights Handbook (1998), by California Office of the Attorney General (HTML and PDF at ca.gov)

• Legal Status of Canadian Women, As Shown by Extracts From Dominion and Provincial Laws Relating to Marriage, Property, Dower, Divorce, Descent of Land, Franchise, Crime and Other Subjects (Calgary: National Council of Women of Canada, 1908), by Henrietta Muir Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Resolutions Adopted by First International Congress of Working Women, Washington, U.S.A., October 28 to November 6, 1919, by International Congress of Working Women (page images at Harvard)

• Women's Rights in Focus: Egypt (2004), by Brian Katulis (PDF with commentary at freedomhouse.org)

• The Revolt of Man, by Walter Besant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)

• Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Deborah A. Rosen (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Legal Status of Women in Iowa (Des Moines: Iowa Printing Co., 1894), by Jennie L. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at LOC)

• "No One is Safe": The Abuse of Women in Iraq's Criminal Justice System (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Erin Evers (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Silver Keys: A Tale (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, ca. 1872), by A. L. O. E., illust. by S. Miller (at ufdc.ufl.edu page images at Florida)

• Women's Rights in Focus: Kuwait (2005), by Brian Katulis (PDF with commentary at freedomhouse.org)

• Women's Freedom in Focus: Morocco (2004), by Brian Katulis (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario (Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1874), by Richard Thomas Walkem (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)
• 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)
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States: Supplement (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1922), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States (second edition; New York: National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1917), by Annie G. Porritt (multiple formats at LOC)
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1912), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at Harvard)
• The Legal Status of Women (Political Science Study Series v2 #4; c1897), by Jessie J. Cassidy (page images at loc.gov)
• Maids, Wives and Widows: The Law of the Land and of the Various States as it Affects Women (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1918), by Rose Falls Bres (at pds.lib.harvard.edu)
• The Political Status of Women in the United States: A Digest of the Laws Concerning Women in the Various States and Territories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), ed. by Bertha Rembaugh, contrib. by Harriot Stanton Blatch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unjust Laws Which Govern Woman: Probate Confiscation (second edition; Boston: The author, 1877), by Mrs. J. W. Stow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Equality the Logical Result of the XIV and XV Amendments, Which Not Only Declare Who Are Citizens, But Also Define Their Rights, One of Which is the Right to Vote Without Regard to Sex (New York: Journeyman Printer's Cooperative Assoc., 1870), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images at Harvard)
• A New Constitution for the United States of the World, Proposed by Victoria C. Woodhull for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1872), by Victoria C. Woodhull (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)
• Woman and the Republic: A Survey of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of its Foremost Advocates, by Helen Kendrick Johnson
  • multiple formats at LOC
  • Gutenberg text

• Proceedings of the National Woman's Rights Convention Held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1853 (Cleveland: Gray, Beardsley, Spear, and Co., 1854)
  • multiple formats with commentary at LOC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ohio Memory
• Proceedings of the Ninth National Woman's Rights Convention Held in New York City, Thursday, May 12, 1859 (Rochester, NY: A. Strong, 1859) (page images at LOC)
• The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Akron, Ohio, May 28 and 29, 1851 (Cincinnati: Ben Franklin Book and Job Office, 1851) (page images at LOC)
• Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at the Broadway Tabernacle, in the City of New York, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 6th and 7th, 1853 (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1853) (page images at LOC)
• The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Worcester, October 15th and 16th, 1851 (New York: Pub. for the Committee by Fowlers and Wells, 1852) (page images at LOC)
• The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Worcester, October 23d and 24th, 1850 (Boston: Prentiss and Sawyer, 1851) (page images at LOC)
• Report of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848 (Rochester, NY: Printed by J. Dick, 1848) (HTML at nps.gov)

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