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Gender & Sexuality Studies
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ReadSex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex
William Isaac Thomas
The book is a compiled collection of scholarly articles by William Isaac Thomas that examine how biological…
蘭花夢奇傳
Yinmeishanren
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV is a monumental documentary work that records the final decades of…
ReadWomen of 'Ninety-Eight
Mrs. Thomas Concannon
The work is a historical tribute that foregrounds the women who lived through, suffered, and helped shape the…
ReadWoman: A Vindication
Anthony M. Ludovici
The work is a polemical essay that sets out to “vindicate” woman by dissecting what its author, Anthony M.
La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages
Jules Michelet
The work is a nineteenth‑century French historian’s sweeping study of witchcraft, demonology and superstition…
ReadThe Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
Myra Reynolds
Myra Reynolds’s scholarly work surveys the status and accomplishments of learned women in England from the…
ReadThe Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910
E. Sylvia Pankhurst
The work is a first‑hand chronicle of the militant women’s suffrage movement in Britain from its early…
ReadThe Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923
Herkimer County Historical Society
The volume is a commemorative history compiled by the Herkimer County Historical Society to mark the fiftieth…
The Truth About Woman
C. Gasquoine Hartley
Hartley’s The Truth About Woman is a polemical study that seeks to articulate a single, overarching…
ReadWoman's Work in Music
Arthur Elson
Arthur Elson’s Woman’s Work in Music is a scholarly survey that traces the presence of women in musical life…
ReadWoman's work in America
The work is a scholarly anthology that sets out to document the various fields in which American women have…
The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger
The work is a polemical treatise that frames birth control as the decisive issue of modern civilization.
The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy
C. Gasquoine Hartley
Hartley’s work is a scholarly essay that frames the “Woman’s Movement” of the early twentieth century as a…
ReadWomen artists in all ages and countries
E. F. Ellet
The work is a sweeping survey of women who have practiced the visual arts from antiquity to the late…
ReadWoman under socialism
August Bebel
The work is a polemical treatise by August Bebel, originally published in German as Die Frau und der…
ReadThe Power of Sexual Surrender
Marie Nyswander Robinson
The book is a mid‑century psychiatric treatise that confronts what its author, Dr. Marie N.
ReadWoman and Socialism
August Bebel
August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism is a polemical treatise that frames the “woman question” as inseparable…
ReadThe Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization Translated from the Sixth German Edition
Iwan Bloch
The work is a scholarly encyclopaedia of the sexual sciences, presented as a single‑volume translation of…
ReadJapanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition
Alice Mabel Bacon
Alice M. Bacon’s Japanese Girls and Women is a revised and enlarged study of women’s roles in Meiji‑era…
In Defense of Women
H. L. Mencken
This work is a polemical essay on the “woman question,” written by the journalist‑critic H. L. Mencken.
ReadChecklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
The Checklist is a scholarly bibliography that gathers every English‑language or translated work of lesbian,…
ReadSocial Origins and Primal Law
Lang, Andrew; Atkinson, J. J.
The work is a scholarly treatise on the origins of marriage, totemism and early social law, assembled by…
ReadWomen Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day
The volume is an illustrated survey of women painters from the early sixteenth‑century Italian masters…