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• Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
• Women -- History -- 19th century

• Women's rights -- History -- 19th century

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

• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Le théâtre de M. Sardou (E. Dentu, 1875), by Maria Deraismes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Projet d'une loi portant défense d'apprendre à lire aux femmes (in French), by Sylvain Maréchal (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• O ravnopravnosti zhenshchin pered lit︠s︡om znanii︠a︡, truda i chelovi︠e︡cheskago dostoinstva (Tip. I.A. Balandina, 1899), by Ėliza Ozheshko (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Grimké sisters : Sarah and Angelina Grimké, the first American women advocates of abolition and woman's rights, by Catherine H. Birney (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement for Twenty Years; With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting Held at Apollo Hall, October 20, 1870, From 1850 to 1870; With an Appendix Containing the History of the Movement During the Winter Of 1871, in the National Capitol (New York: Journeyman Printers Co-operative Association, 1871), ed. by Paulina W. Davis, contrib. by N.Y.) National Woman's Suffrage Convention (1871: Apollo Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Woman Suffrage (6 volumes, 1887-1922), ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
• L'émancipation sexuelle de la femme (La Brochure mensuelle, 1926), by Madeleine Pelletier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of women's rights : from the days of Augustus to the present time, with special reference to England and the United States (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Eugene A. Hecker, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Florence Luscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber. (in der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le droit de la femme dans l'antiquité, son devoir au moyen âge, d'après des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale (A. Claudin, 1880), by Louis de Baecker and A. Claudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of the Project Gutenberg Works on Women's Suffrage: Four volumes edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, and David Widger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber (in German), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions., by Eugene A. Hecker (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of female emancipation in France and England, by Jacob Bouten (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, In Two Parts, by a Lover of Her Sex (London: Printed for R. Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts), by Mary Astell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Third Time Around: A History of the Pro-Life Movement From the First Century to the Present (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1991), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (2001), by M. Charrad (HTML at UC Press)

• Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (republished, c2010), by Susan Magarey (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Report of the ... held at the invitation of the War Committee of the Cabinet, Feb. 28 - Mar. 2, 1918. (Ottawa, 1918), by Women's War Conference (1918 : Ottawa) (page images at HathiTrust)

• al-Marʼah al-jadīdah (Maṭbaʻat al-Shaʻb, 1911), by Qāsim Amīn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe : in familiar letters to her female friend. (Printed for the author and sold by Manners & Miller ... [et al.], 1810), by Mary Ann Radcliffe, Stewart Cheyne, Ferrier & Waterston (Firm), Hurst Longman, Oliphant & Balfour (Firm), Archibald Constable & Co, and Manners and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (PDF at OAPEN)

• Die vorzüglichsten Rechte der deutschen Weibsbilder : als Jungfern, Bräute, Eheweiber, schwanger und gebährend betrachtet. (Metzner, 1966), by Clausdieter Schott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der b©ơrgerliche und der geistige Antifeminismus (Berlin-Charlottenburg : Hans Bl©ơher, 1918., 1918), by Hans Bl©ơher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Doing & becoming (Social Science Research Institute, University Press, University of Iceland, 1997), by Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shin Fujin Kyōkai kikan zasshi Josei dōmei (Domesu Shuppan, 1920), by Takayoshi Matsuo, Katsuko Kodama, and Shin Fujin Kyōkai (page images at HathiTrust)

• Herinneringen van Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs (in Dutch), by Aletta H. Jacobs, contrib. by J. Oppenheim (Gutenberg ebook)

• Zhenskoe dvizhenie i ego zadachi : kratkīĭ istoricheskīĭ ocherk (Tip. "Rabotnik", 1981), by A. A. Kalʹmanovich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Diane Helene Miller (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• History of Woman Suffrage (6 volumes, 1887-1922), ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
• Women's Rights National History Trail feasibility study : final study report. (National Park Service, Northeast Region, 2003), by United States. National Park Service. Northeast Region (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)
• Index of the Project Gutenberg Works on Women's Suffrage: Four volumes edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, and David Widger (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ueber die Stellung der Frauen im alten deutschen Recht (Carl Habel, 1877), by Stammler (page images at HathiTrust)
• De ontwikkeling van den rechtstoestand der vrouw volgens het oud-germaansche en oud-nederlandsche recht. (Rotterdam, 1891), by J. C. Overvoorde (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws for the protection of women (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854), by James Edward Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The status of women under the English law : a compendious epitome of legislative enactments and social and political events arranged as a continuous narrative, with reference to authorities and acts of parliament (Routledge ;, 1909), by A. Beatrice Wallis Chapman and Mary Wallis Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)

• De ontwikkeling van den rechtstoestand der vrouw volgens het oud-germaansche en oud-nederlandsche recht. (Rotterdam, 1891), by J. C. Overvoorde (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Polskie prawo dziedziczenia kobiet w wiekach średnich (Gubrynowicz & Schmidt, 1897), by Alojzy Winiarz (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)

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