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• Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses

• Women's rights -- United States -- Congresses

• 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)

• The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, 1990), ed. by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)
• The First Convention Ever Called to Discuss the Civil and Political Rights of Women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848: Woman's Rights Convention (1848) (page images at LOC)
• 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 West Chester, Pa., June 2d and 3d, 1852 (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1852) (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 Meeting, at Mercantile Hall, May 27, 1859 (Boston: S. Urbino, 1859) (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)

• Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies, ed. by Barbara F. Reskin (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• 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)
• 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 and Political Status of Women in the United States: Supplement (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1922), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• What is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation? (ca.1970), by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood (page images at Duke)
• Chicanas Speak Out: Women: New Voice of La Raza (1971), by Mirta Vidal (page images at Duke)
• Constitutional Equality a Right of Woman (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1871), by Tennessee Claflin Cook (multiple formats at LOC)
• The New Godiva: A Dialogue; and A Letter to the International Convention of Women at Washington, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
• Woman's Rights (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by John Todd (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• 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 Status of Women (Political Science Study Series v2 #4; c1897), by Jessie J. Cassidy (page images at loc.gov)
• Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Boston: I. Knapp, 1838), by Sarah Moore Grimké (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Summer in the Kitchen (Indianapolis: Douglass and Carlon, 1878), by Hetty A. Morrison
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Speech of Sara Bard Field: Presenting to Congress on Behalf of the Women of the Nation, the Marble Busts of Three Suffrage Pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady, Susan Brownell Anthony (1921), by Sara Bard Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • page images at loc.gov

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

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

More items available under broader and related terms at left.