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Women -- Social conditions

Here are entered works which deal specifically with the social condition and status of women, including historical discussions of the same. 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. are entered under Women -- History.

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• From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2005), ed. by Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber (PDF at umass.edu)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), by Elspeth Strachan and Gordon Strachan (HTML at womenpriests.org)
• Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2010), ed. by Carol Lee Bacchi and Joan Eveline (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men: To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery; In Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill's Celebrated "Article on Government" (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; and Wheatley and Adlard, 1825), by William Thompson
  • page images at LSE
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Business of Being a Woman (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1921), by Ida M. Tarbell (Gutenberg text)
• Civilization and Womanhood (Boston: R. G. Badger; Toronto: Copp-Clark Co., c1916), by Harriet B. Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1875), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household (1895), by Abby Morton Diaz (Gutenberg text)
• The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures (1881), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Defense of Women (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at Harvard)
• In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• In Times Like These (Toronto: McLeod and Allen, 1915), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage as a Trade (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Cicely Hamilton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1868), by E. Lynn Linton, contrib. by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Morality of Woman, and Other Essays (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., c1911), by Ellen Key, trans. by Mamah Bouton Borthwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A New Atmosphere (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872), by Gail Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Womanhood (New York: Broadway Pub. Co., 1904), by Winnifred Harper Cooley (multiple formats at LOC)
• Woman in Transition (London: Methuen and Co., c1907), by Annette M. B. Meakin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman Man's Equal (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1873), by Thomas Webster (page images at MOA)
• The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness (dissertation; Chicago: Collegiate Press, 1915), by Jessie Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman's Thoughts About Women, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (HTML at Indiana)
• Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Gail Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of Tomorrow (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1911), by William Hard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women the World Over: A Sketch Both Light and Gay, Perchance Both Dull and Stupid (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1914), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, illust. by W. K. Haselden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• Why Women Cry: or, Wenches With Wrenches (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1943), by Elizabeth Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Affection's Gift: A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Present (2 parts (first by Winslow, second by Sandford) in 1 volume; New York: Leavitt and Allen, ca. 1854), contrib. by Hubbard Winslow and Elizabeth Sandford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.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)
• Feminism and Sex-Extinction (London: T. F. Unwin, c1920), by Arabella Kenealy
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Human Body the Temple of God: or, The Philosophy of Sociology (1890), by Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (5 dreams; Wellesey, MA: Mrs. E. M. F. Denton, ca. 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (page images at MOA)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (9 dreams; from the book and serial publications, 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
• The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (London: Watts and Co., 1908), by Joseph McCabe, contrib. by Florence Dixie
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sex and Society (some essays in this edition from journal versions), by William Isaac Thomas (HTML at Brock)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Eight Million Women Want (1910), by Rheta Childe Dorr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Woman, Church, and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages, With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate (second edition; New York: The Truth Seeker Company, c1893), by Matilda Joslyn Gage (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gloriana: or, The Revolution of 1900 (London: Henry and Co., 1890), by Florence Dixie
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Human Woman (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908), by Agnes Geraldine Grove (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of British Female Missionaries; With a Survey of the Condition of Women in Heathen Countries (London: W. Smith, 1841), by Thomas Timpson, contrib. by Jemima Luke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701), by Mary Lee Chudleigh (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Helen Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., c1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., ca. 1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML in the UK)

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