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Free Social Sciences Books - Family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
  1. Abortion: Questions and Answers (1991 edition) by Jack Willke and Barbara Willke (illustrated HTML at ohiolife.org)

  2. Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know by John Jefferson Davis (HTML at AOL)

  3. A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)

  4. A History of International Women's Day in Words and Images by Joyce Stevens (illustrated HTML in Australia)

  5. American Women in Civic Work by Helen Christine Bennett (illustrated HTML at LOC)

  6. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 1998 by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (HTML at childstats.gov)

  7. Ancient Eugenics by Allen G. Roper (HTML at melvig.org)

  8. A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)

  9. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
    1. HTML at Bartleby
    2. HTML at UMD
    3. text at the English Server

  10. A Woman's Philosophy of Woman: or Woman Affranchised by Jenny d' Hericourt (HTML at pinn.net)

  11. A Woman's Thoughts About Women by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (HTML at indiana.edu)

  12. A Young Girl's Diary, Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud, trans. by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, contrib. by Sigmund Freud
    1. HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

  13. Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  14. Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence (illustrated HTML at SETIS)

  15. Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide by Henry Vernon Sattler (text at EWTN)

  16. Children in South Asia: Securing Their Rights by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  17. Colasterion by John Milton (text at UBC)

  18. Confessions of an Abortionist by Martin Avery (HTML at infidels.org)

  19. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth by Rebecca Latimer Felton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

  20. Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994) by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML and zipped Word at rushkoff.com)

  21. Debate on Birth Control by Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  22. Demography of Aging, ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)

  23. Doesn't Anyone Care About the Children? Excerpts from Essays Submitted to the Harry Singer Foundation, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wellington Publications)

  24. Epistles on Women by Lucy Aikin (HTML at UC Davis)

  25. Ester Hath Hang'd Haman by Ester Sowernam
    1. HTML at pinn.net
    2. HTML at Oregon

  26. Family Limitation (1914 edition) by Margaret Sanger (page images at sc.edu)

  27. Family Limitation (1917 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  28. Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (1670) by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, trans. by Henry Care (HTML with commentary at pinn.net)

  29. Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! by Olive Logan (page images at MOA)

  30. Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

  31. How to Find a Lasting Relationship (1991 edition) by Richard Gosse (text at cupidnet.com)

  32. Impact of Armed Conflict on Children by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

  33. In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken
    1. HTML at Eldritch Press
    2. Gutenberg text

  34. Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop by National Research Council Committee on National Statistics (page images at NAP)

  35. Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women by Jane Anger (HTML at pinn.net)

  36. Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States by Annie Porritt (illustrated HTML at LOC)

  37. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman by Sarah Moore Grimké (HTML at pinn.net)

  38. Letters to Dean by Paul Rosenfels (HTML at the English Server)

  39. Letter to the Women Of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary) by Mary Darby Robinson
  40. Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women by Ethel M. Smith (illustrated HTML at LOC)

  41. Life at Home by William Aikman (page images at MOA)

  42. Little Essays of Love and Virtue (from a 1937 compilation) by Havelock Ellis (HTML at Virginia)

  43. Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

  44. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone: Her Life Story and Reminiscences by Belle McArthur Perry (HTML and page images at LOC)

  45. Making Policies for Children: A Study of the Federal Process, ed. by Cheryl D. Hayes (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)

  46. Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? by Annie Denton Cridge (page images at MOA)

  47. Man Superior to Woman by A Gentleman (zipped text file in Australia)

  48. Marriage Is For Love by Richard L. Strauss (HTML and Word at bible.org)

  49. Morals and Marriage: The Catholic Background to Sex by Thomas Gilby Wayne (text at EWTN)

  50. Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)

  51. Productive Roles in an Older Sociery by Committee on an Aging Society (page images at NAP)

  52. Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)

  53. Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, ed. by Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes (page images at NAP)

  54. SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (HTML at envirolink.org)

  55. Sex and Character (may be abridged?) by Otto Weininger (HTML and PC program in Australia)

  56. Sexual Ecstasy From Ancient Wisdom by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (zipped HTML with glyphs at summum.org)

  57. Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. by Caroline H. Bledsoe and Barney Cohen (page images at NAP)

  58. Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered by Mary Astell (HTML at pinn.net)

  59. Tetrachordon by John Milton (text at UBC)

  60. The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families, ed. by Sarah S. Brown and Leon Eisenberg (page images at NAP)

  61. The Catholic Family Handbook by George A. Kelly (text at EWTN; 530K)

  62. The Centennial Situation of Woman by Alexander H. Bullock (page images at MOA)

  63. The Century of the Child by Ellen Key (HTML with commentary in the Netherlands)

  64. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce by John Milton (text at UBC)

  65. The Equal Rights Handbook by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (page images at iuniverse.com)

  66. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox (HTML with commentary at Still Waters)

  67. The Illusion of Agony: A Comprehensive Critique of Dr. Robert Wennberg's Book, "Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy" by Douglas Gwinn (HTML with commentary at AOL)

  68. The Inheritance of Evil: Or, The Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)

  69. The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter (Golden Gale archive format)

  70. The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce by Martin Bucer, trans. by John Milton (text at UBC)

  71. The Kama Sutra by Vatsayayana, trans. by Sir Richard Burton
    1. HTML at Bibliomania
    2. HTML with descriptive table of contents at Bibliomania and zdial.com

  72. The Man for Her by Leo J. Kinsella (text at EWTN)

  73. The Modern Marriage Market by Marie Corelli, Susan Mary Elizabeth (Stewart-Mackenzie) Jeune St. Helier, Flora Annie Steel, and Susan Hamilton Ardagh (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

  74. The Moral Question of Abortion by Stephen Schwarz (illustrated HTML at ohiolife.org)

  75. The New Womanhood by Winnifred Harper Cooley (illustrated HTML at LOC)

  76. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels (HTML at Colorado)

  77. The Perfumed Garden by Nafzawi, trans. by Sir Richard Burton (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)

  78. The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger (Gutenberg text)

  79. The Secret of the Silver Horse (HTML in Canada)

  80. The Social and Built Environment in an Older Society by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council (page images at NAP)

  81. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
    1. HTML in Australia
    2. text at Wiretap

  82. The Tasks of the Youth Leagues by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, trans. by Julius Katzer (HTML at marxists.org)

  83. The Unsex'd Females by Richard Polwhele (HTML at Virginia)

  84. The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits by Sarah Stickney Ellis (HTML at Indiana)

  85. The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

  86. The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise (page images at MOA)

  87. Third Time Around: A History of the Pro-Life Movement From the First Century to the Present by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

  88. Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent by Ezra Hervey Heywood (HTML at LOC)

  89. What a Young Boy Ought to Know (1905 edition) by Sylvanus Stall (HTML at nimbus.org)

  90. What Every Girl Should Know (1920 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  91. What Every Girl Should Know (1922 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  92. What Every Mother Should Know, or How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  93. What, If Any, Should Government's Role Be Regarding Child Care in the United States? Excerpts from the 1991 Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contest, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wellington Publications)

  94. Who Cares for America's Children?, ed. by Cheryl D. Hayes, John L. Palmer, and Martha J. Zaslow (page images at NAP)

  95. Woman and Her Rights by Murtaza Mutahhari, trans. by M. A. Ansari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

  96. Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)

  97. Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger (HTML at all.org)

  98. Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller (HTML at eku.edu)

  99. Woman Man's Equal by Thomas Webster (page images at MOA)

  100. Woman Not Inferior to Man by Sophia (IBM-PC program in Australia)

  101. Work and Family: Policies for a Changing Work Force, ed. by Marianne A. Ferber, Brigid O'Farrell, and La Rue Allen (page images at NAP)