In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken’s 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand...
The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bitterswee...
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class i...
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's...
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...
An in-depth narrative of Susan B Anthony's life from a small girl to old age. It covers historic events throughout her lifetime. Including the electio...
When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the nove...
As Psyche - the youngest daughter of a petty Cretan king - grows into the full flower of womanhood, she becomes worshiped by the common people as the...
Susan and Elizabeth led the women’s rights establishment of the time to withhold support for a bill that would extend to black men the rights still de...
Girl Scouts were prepared through their training for merit badges to be independent, resourceful, reliable, and helpful. They were able to make their...
First Cobb talks about women and their annoying habits, such as talking in building entrances, not having their fare ready on the streetcar, getting o...
Currer Bell is Charlotte, Ellis Bell is Emily, and Acton Bell is Anne. Tragically, the free kindle volume doesn’t list who wrote each individual poem,...
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Righ...
The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he de...
The Woman Who Did is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is...
Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs ar...
A guide for ladies, written in 1860, on what is accepted as correct behavior in polite society. The advice covers dress, travelling, staying in hotels...
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to understand better...
It follows the life of a woman from young adulthood to middle age between the years of 1905 to 1922 in New York City. She is a stenographer, has chose...
It is a thought-provoking collection of essays that explores the changing nature of morality and its impact on women. In this book, the author delves...
The book examines the struggle for women's rights and the various forms of discrimination faced by women at the time.
Schirmacher's work is a signifi...