Gender & Sexuality Studies

Suffrage and its opponents, marriage and its critics, the women written out of history and the lives that had no name — the long argument over what the sexes owe each other.

• A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters John Gregory
• A Plea for Monogamy Wilfrid Lay
• A Problem in Greek Ethics John Addington Symonds
• A Short History of Women’s Rights Eugene A. Hecker
• A Voice from the South Anna Julia Cooper
• A Wheel Within a Wheel Frances E. Willard
• A Woman’s Philosophy of Woman Jenny P. d’Héricourt
• A Woman’s Quest Marie E. Zakrzewska
• A Young Girl’s Diary Anonymous
• Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women G. S. Weaver
• An Englishwoman in Utah Fanny Stenhouse
• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism Catharine E. Beecher
• Anti-Suffrage Essays Various
• Are Women People? Alice Duer Miller
• Autobiography of an Androgyne Earl Lind
• British Freewomen Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
• Colonial Dames and Good Wives Alice Morse Earle
• Common Sense About Women Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• D’Eon de Beaumont: His Life and Times Octave Homberg & Fernand Jousselin
• Debate on Birth Control Margaret Sanger & Winter Russell
• Facts and Fictions of Life Helen H. Gardener
• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century Virginia Tatnall Peacock
• Female Nursing in Military Hospitals Florence Nightingale
• Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America Susan Fenimore Cooper
• Feminism in Greek Literature F. A. Wright
• Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Port-folio: Second Series Fanny Fern
• From a Girl’s Point of View Lilian Bell
• Gardening for Women Frances Wolseley
• Girls and Women Harriet E. Paine
• Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands Marianne Farningham
• Greek Women Mitchell Carroll
• Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers Elizabeth Andrew & Katharine Bushnell
• Her Royal Highness Woman Max O’Rell
• Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Hints for Lovers Arnold Haultain
• Imre: A Memorandum Edward Prime-Stevenson
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley Mark Twain
• In Defense of Women H. L. Mencken
• Jailed for Freedom Doris Stevens
• Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir Josephine Butler
• Letters of a Javanese Princess Raden Adjeng Kartini
• Letters on the Equality of the Sexes Sarah Grimké
• Love and Marriage Ellen Key
• Love Potions Through the Ages Harry E. Wedeck
• Maids, Wives, and Bachelors Amelia E. Barr
• Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography Margaret Sanger
• Marriage and Love Emma Goldman
• Marriage in Free Society Edward Carpenter
• Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation Jacob Bouten
• Miss America Alexander Black
• Model Women William Anderson
• Mrs. Warren’s Daughter Harry Johnston
• My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s Marietta Holley
• Noble Deeds of American Women J. Clement
• Oriental Women Edward B. Pollard
• Our Changing Morality Freda Kirchwey
• Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women Elizabeth Blackwell
• Press Cuttings Bernard Shaw
• Priests, Women, and Families Jules Michelet
• Prisons & Prisoners Constance Lytton
• Rambles in Womanland Max O’Rell
• Roman Women Alfred Brittain
• Samantha Among the Brethren Marietta Holley
• Sex in Education Edward H. Clarke
• Sex-Love, and Its Place in a Free Society Edward Carpenter
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage Mary Astell
• Suffrage Songs and Verses Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The College, the Market, and the Court Caroline H. Dall
• The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
• The Education of American Girls Anna C. Brackett
• The Female-Impersonators Earl Lind
• The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger
• The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
• The God-Idea of the Ancients Eliza Burt Gamble
• The Good Englishwoman Orlo Williams
• The Grimké Sisters Catherine H. Birney
• The Heavenly Twins Sarah Grand
• The Homosexual Neurosis Wilhelm Stekel
• The Joys of Being a Woman Winifred Kirkland
• The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 Myra Reynolds
• The Life of Carry A. Nation Carry A. Nation
• The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake Margaret Todd
• The Living Present Gertrude Atherton
• The Mysteries of Montreal Charlotte Führer
• The Position of Woman in Primitive Society C. Gasquoine Hartley
• The Queen’s Daughters in India Katharine Bushnell & Elizabeth Andrew
• The Romance of the Harem Anna Leonowens
• The Sexes in Science and History Eliza Burt Gamble
• The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland Edward Maitland
• The Strange Career of the Chevalier d’Eon J. Buchan Telfer
• The Sturdy Oak Various
• The Suffragette E. Sylvia Pankhurst
• The Trial of Oscar Wilde Charles Grolleau
• The Unadjusted Girl William I. Thomas
• The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright
• The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall
• The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero
• The Women of the French Salons Amelia Gere Mason
• The Young Maiden A. B. Muzzey
• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters Mary Wollstonecraft
• Treatise on the Education of Daughters François Fénelon
• We Women and Our Authors Laura Marholm
• What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen
• Woman and the Republic Helen Kendrick Johnson
• Woman in Ancient Greece and Rome James Donaldson
• Woman in Modern Society Earl Barnes
• Woman in the Golden Ages Amelia Gere Mason
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century Margaret Fuller
• Woman on the American Frontier William W. Fowler
• Woman Triumphant Rudolf Cronau
• Woman under Monasticism Lina Eckenstein
• Woman’s Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
• Woman’s Work in America Annie Nathan Meyer
• Woman’s Work in Municipalities Mary Ritter Beard
• Woman, Church & State Matilda Joslyn Gage
• Women and the Alphabet Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Women and War Work Helen Fraser
• Women Artists in All Ages and Countries Elizabeth F. Ellet
• Women as World Builders Floyd Dell
• Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign Various
• Women of ‘Ninety-Eight Helena Concannon
• Women of America John R. Larus
• Women of Early Christianity Alfred Brittain & Mitchell Carroll
• Women of England Bartlett Burleigh James
• Women of History Various
• Women of Mediæval France Pierce Butler
• Women of Modern France Hugo P. Thieme
• Women of the Romance Countries John R. Effinger
• Women of the Teutonic Nations Hermann Schoenfeld
• Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement Millicent Garrett Fawcett
• Women, Children, Love, and Marriage C. Gasquoine Hartley
• Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century Alice Clark
• Working Women of Japan Sidney L. Gulick