Women & the law

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The series Women & the law represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Women & the law, Feminism and Legal Theory Project
" ... to form a more perfect union ..." : justice for American women
"Common sense" applied to woman suffrage : a statement of the reasons which justify the demand to extend the suffrage to women, with consideration of the arguments against such enfranchisement, and with special reference to the issues presented to the New York State Convention of 1894
"Partial-birth" abortion and the 2006 term of the U.S. Supreme Court
"The cause" : a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain
"This crisis in history" : report of the third annual New York Herald Tribune Women's Conference on Current Problems, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, October 12th and 13th, 1933
1894, constitutional-amendment campaign year : report of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, twenty-sixth annual convention, Ithaca, N.Y., November 12-15
1968: time for action : highlights of the Fourth National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women
1975 handbook on women workers
25 years of a great idea : a history of the National League of Women Voters, a non-partisan organization established in 1920 to encourage citizen participation in government
A book of costs in the common law and divorce courts : with observations on the principle of the allowances, and an analysis of decisions upon costs, from the time of passing the first common law procedure act, etc.
A bride-bush, : or, A direction for married persons. Plainely describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By performing of which, marriage shall prooue a great helpe to such, as now for want of performing them, doe find it a little hell
A brief digest of the laws relating to absentee voting and registration
A commentary on the law of community property : for Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington
A commentary on the law of divorce and alimony
A comparative study of the secondary education of girls in England, Germany, and the United States : with a consideration of the secondary education of girls in Japan
A concise treatise on the law of marriage settlements : with an appendix of statutes
A concise view of the doctrine and practice of the ecclesiastical courts in Doctors' Commons, on various points relative to the subject of marriage and divorce
A decade of Italian women
A defence of the ladies, and others, against the bishop of Maryland, and his aids
A digest of laws establishing reformatories for women in the United States
A digest of the law of husband and wife as it affects property, and the Married Women's Property Act, 1882 : with notes and illustrations (being in lieu of a second edition of the author's "Married Women's Property Act, 1882") : with an appendix of statutes, forms and precedents
A discussion of woman suffrage : by the Yale University debating teams, in the 1914 triangular debates with Harvard and Princeton
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Colautti v. Franklin
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Griswold v. Connecticut
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Planned Parenthood v. Casey
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Roe v. Wade
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Stenberg v. Carhart
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
A familiar compendium of the law of husband and wife : in two parts : containing the whole of the legislative provisions for the celebration of marriage , by banns, licence, special licence--and for its dissolution, by divorce, on the ground of crim. con., curelty, &c. &c.--the impediments to matrimony--foreign marriages--adultery and recrimination--jactitation of marriage--separation by mutual agreement--bigamy--the powers of a husband over the property and person of his wife--the legal and equitable rights of married women, &c. &c. : to which is added a third part, comprising the laws relating to breach of promise of marriage, seduction and abduction of women : the whole deduced from the most authentic sources, illustrated with some of the most prominent modern cases and brought down to the present time
A guide for judges in child support enforcement
A guide to federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination
A handbook of husband and wife according to the law of Scotland
A handbook of the law for the use of Connecticut women
A handy book on the law of husband and wife : engagements to marry, property & settlements, wife's separate rights, the spouses' liabilities, protection & maintenance, divorce & separation, children
A history of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States : with an introductory analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive marriage and the family
A juridical dissertation concerning the scripture doctrine of marriage contracts, and the marriages of cousin-germans : illustrated from the canon, civil, and statute-law, wherein also the foundation and exercise of ecclesiastical authority are examined : occasioned by some late proceedings in Doctors-Commons
A matter of simple justice : the report of the President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities
A practical treatise of the law of marriage and divorce : containing also the mode of proceeding on divorces in the ecclesiastical courts and in Parliament; the right to the custody of children, voluntary separation between husband and wife; the husband's liability to wife's debts; and the conflict between the laws of England and Scotland respecting divorce and legitimacy
A practical treatise on the law of marriage, divorce, and legitimacy : as administered in the Divorce Court and in the House of Lords
A profitable book upon domestic law
A profitable book upon domestic law
A psychoanalytic lawyer looks at marriage and divorce
A reply to John Stuart Mill on The subjection of women
A report on the glass ceiling initiative
A review of sexual harassment and misconduct in science : hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Technology, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, February 27, 2018
A review of sexual misconduct by basic training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held January 23, 2013
A short history of women's rights : from the days of Augustus to the present time : with special reference to England and the United States
A short treatise on family settlements and devises : principally designed to show in what manner, and to what extent of duration, property may be preserved within families
A social history of the American family from colonial times to the present
A speech on the ethics of sexual equality : delivered in the Academy of Music, New York City, March 29, 1872
A survey of the legal status of women in the forty-eight states
A survey of the legal status of women in the forty-eight states
A treasury of great American letters : our country's life & history in the letters of its men and women
A treatise of feme coverts, or, The lady's law : containing all the laws and statutes relating to women ... : to which are added, Judge Hide's very remarkable argument in the Exchequer-chamber, term. Trin. 15 Car. 2. in the case of Manby and Scot, whether and in what cases the husband is bound by the contract of his wife, and select precedents, of conveyances in all cases concerning feme coverts
A treatise of spousals, or matrimonial contracts : wherein all the questions relating to that subject are ingeniously debated and resolved.
A treatise of the law of property arising from the relation between husband and wife
A treatise of the rights, duties and liabilities of husband and wife, at law and in equity
A treatise on dower : comprising a digest of the American decisions, and the provisions of the revised statutes of the state of New-York
A treatise on the law and practice of the probate courts of Mississippi : comprising a compilation of the statutes of the state on the subject of the probate courts, last wills and testaments, estates of decedents, infants and persons non compos mentis, dower, and partition of lands; the whole methodically arranged, and illustrated with notes on the common law, and American jurisprudence : to which is added an appendix of forms and precedents : being a full and complete manual of practice, adapted to the use of lawyers, judges and clerks of courts, sheriffs, executors, administrators, and guardians
A treatise on the law of contracts by married women : their capacity to contract in relation to their separate statutory legal estates, under American statutes
A treatise on the law of divorce : with the causes for which divorces will be granted in all the states and territories, the time of residence required in each, and a brief digest of the leading decisions by the appellate courts : containing also a careful compilation of the latest divorce statistics
A treatise on the law of divorce and annulment of marriage : including the adjustment of property rights upon divorce, the procedure in suits for divorce, and the validity and extraterritorial effect of decrees of divorce
A treatise on the law of domestic relations
A treatise on the law of domestic relations
A treatise on the law of domestic relations : and the status and capacity of natural persons as generally administered in the United States
A treatise on the law of dower
A treatise on the law of dower
A treatise on the law of husband and wife in the state of New York : including chapters on divorce and dower
A treatise on the law of marriage and other family settlements : with precedents and practical notes
A treatise on the law of portions and provisions for children of the nature of portions : with an appendix of precedents
A treatise on the law of property arising from the relation between husband and wife
A treatise on the law of settlements of property made upon marriage and other occasions
A treatise on the law of the domestic relations : embracing husband and wife, parent and child, guardian and ward, infancy, and master and servant
A treatise on the law relating to dissolution of the marital relation
A treatise on the law relating to the custody of infants : including practice and forms
A treatise on the law, practice and procedure of divorce and matrimonial causes : under the Act 20 & 21 Vict. c.85 : containing the act, also the rules, orders and forms issued thereunder, together with precedents
A treatise on the legal and equitable rights of married women : as well in respect to their property and persons as to their children : with an appendix of the recent American statutes and the decisions under them
A treatise on the right of suffrage : with an appendix
A treatise on the separate property of married women : under the recent enabling statutes
A vindication of the rights of woman : with strictures on political and moral subjects
A woman of the century : fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life
A woman's thoughts about women
Abortion : Justice O'Connor's opinions
Abortion : judicial history and legislative response
Abortion : legislative response
Abortion : legislative response
Abortion : legislative response
Abortion : legislative response
Abortion : termination of early pregnancy with RU-486
Abortion Funding Restriction Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session on S. 522, a bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect the rights of the unborn, April 2 and July 22, 1985
Abortion and family planning-related provisions in U.S. foreign assistance law and policy
Abortion and family planning-related provisions in U.S. foreign assistance law and policy
Abortion and whole woman's health v. Hellerstedt
Abortion clinic violence : oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first and second session on abortion clinic violence, March 6, 12, and April 3, 1985; and December 17, 1986
Abortion in the United States : a compilation of state legislation
Abortion law development : a brief overview
Abortion legislation in Europe : Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzeralnd, Ukraine
Abortion procedures
Abortion services and military medical facilities
Abortion, hospital admitting privileges, and Whole Woman's Health v. Cole
Access to quality mammography screening : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session including H.R. 1393 (with technical corrections) and H.R. 3462, bills to amend Title XIX of the Social Security Act to require coverage of screening mammography under state Medicaid plans; and to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the authority for the regulation of mammography services and radiological equipment, June 5, 1992
Acta final
Adam's rib
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention : before the Judiciary Committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights Association
Address to the Legislature of New-York : adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 and 15, 1854
Advancing woman
Agency enforcement of the prohibition against sex discrimination mandated by Title IX and EO 13160
Alcuin : a dialogue
Allegations of sexual assault at the U.S. Air Force Academy : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, March 31, September 24, 20, 2003
Alleged retaliation by Sumitomo Corp. of America against employee who testified before Congress about sexual harassment and discrimination : hearing before the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, February 26, 1992
Amend the Constitution relative to equal rights for men and women : statements presented to Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session on H.J. Res. 1, H.J. Res. 5, H.J. Res. 30, H.J. Res. 42, H.J. Res. 49, H.J. Res. 66, H.J. Res. 71, H.J. Res. 80, H.J. Res. 82, and H.J. Res. 96, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women (subsequently H.J. Res. 49 was reported favorably to the House), statement filed during period February 21 to March 31, 1945
America's twelve great women leaders during the past hundred years as chosen by the women of America : a compilation from the Ladies Home Journal and the Christian Science Monitor
American University journal of gender, social policy & the law
American feminists
American marriage laws in their social aspects : a digest
American women : fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portraits : a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century
American women : report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women
American women : the official who's who among the women of the nation : 1935-36
American women : three decades of change : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, November 9, 1983
American women today & tomorrow
American women workers in a full employment economy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, September 16, 1977
American women, 1963-1968 : report of the Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women
An address to the public : (particularly) to the members of the legislature of New-York, proposing a plan for improving female education
An apologie for women, or, An opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion, who held in the act at Oxforde, anno 1608, that it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives
An argument against immediately repealing the laws which treat the nuptial bond as indissoluble
An essay on marriage; or, The lawfulness of divorce, in certain cases, considered : addressed to the feelings of mankind
An essay on the equitable rights of married women : with respect to their separate property, and also to their claim to a provision, called the wife's equity; to which is added, the law of pin-money, separate maintenance, and of the other separate provisions of married women
An essay upon the law respecting husband and wife : comprising more particularly a comparative view of the law of marriage in England, Scotland and Ireland
An examination of the "marriage contract", and the "dear wife letters", and other documents connected with the Sharon-Hill case in California
An exposition of the laws of marriage and divorce : as administered in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, with the method of procedure in each kind of suit, illustrated by copious notes of cases
An overview of the Supreme Court's search and seizure decisions from the October 2005 term
Analysis of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding abortions : Roe v. Wade, No. 70-18, and Doe v. Bolton, No. 70-40, decided January 22, 1973
Anarchism and other essays
Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society : being a concise history of the cases of the slave child, Med, and of the women demanded as slaves of the Supreme Judicial Court of Mass., with all the other proceedings of the Society
Annual report of the New York Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts
Annual report of the director of the Women's Bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30
Annulment of marriage : a condensed digest of marriage laws, and divorce laws related to annulment, together with leading decisions and comments bearing thereon, covering all states and territorial possessions of the United States, and with brief comments on similar laws of Mexico: statutes, decisions, notes
Annulment of marriage : being a treatise covering New York law and practice with composite forms
Anti-suffrage : ten good reasons
Anti-suffrage campaign manual
Appointment of female physicians and surgeons in the medical corps of the army and navy : hearings before subcommittee no. 3 of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 824, a bill to amend the act of September 22, 1941 (Public law 242, 77th Cong.), with relation to the temporary appointments of officers in the army of the United States, and H.R. 1857, a bill to provide for the appointment of female physicians and surgeons in the medical corps of the army and navy, March 10, 11, and 18, 1943
Appraising change and progress a decade after the Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts : a report
Are women people? : a book of rhymes for suffrage times
Army woman's handbook
As she would have it
Assistance to Afghan and Iraqi women : issues for Congress
Back to the home : essays and papers on the domestic relations court
Balanced hours : effective part-time policies for Washington law firms : final report
Banner bearers : tales of the suffrage campaigns
Banning crush videos : legislative response to the Supreme Court's ruling in U.S. v. Stevens and lingering First Amendment questions
Barriers to justice : examining equal pay for equal work : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 23, 2008
Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session on H.R. 3083, July 20, 2000
Battered women : issues of public policy : a consultation sponsored by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., January 30-31, 1978
Battered women and child custody litigation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session on H.R. 1252, H.R. 1253, and H. Con. Res. 89 ... August 6, 1992
Batterer intervention : program approaches and criminal justice strategies
Before the bluestockings
Behind the scenes, or, Nine years at the four courts of Saint Louis
Bequest from a life : a biography of Louise Stevens Bryant
Berkeley journal of gender, law & justice
Bibliography on maternity protection
Biography of distinguished women : or, Woman's record, from the creation to A.D. 1869 : arranged in four eras, with selections from authoresses of each era
Boarding homes for women war workers : shelter plus safety, security, decency, cleanliness, health, adequacy, comfort, convenience
Breach of promise : its history and social considerations : to which are added a few pages on the law of breach of promise and a glance at many amusing cases since the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Bridging the gender gap : eliminating retirement income disparity for women : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, March 15, 2006
British freewomen : their historical privilege
Buffalo journal of gender, law & social policy
Building on the success of 35 years of Title IX : hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 19, 2007
By and about women : a selected bibliography of books published in the United States during 1947
Canadian journal of women and the law
Canon law on civil action in marriage problems : lectures delivered under the auspices of the Catholic Lawyers Guild in the rooms of the Chicago Bar Association
Career women of America, 1776-1840
Careers for women in banking and finance
Cases and other materials on domestic relations
Cases illustrative of the conflict between the laws of England and Scotland with regard to marriage, divorce and legitimacy : designed as a supplement to An essay upon the law respecting husband and wife
Cases on a wife's separate estate and equity to a settlement out of her equitable property : viz. Scarborough v. Borman, Tullett v. Armstrong, Dixon v. Dixon, Nedby v. Nedby, Stead v. Nelson, Newlands v. Holmes, and Sturges v. Champneys : with notices of the earlier decisions
Cases on domestic relations
Cases on the law of persons and domestic relations
Catalog of literature for advisers of young women and girls : an annotated list of more than two thousand titles of the most representative and useful books and periodical articles for the use of deans and other advisers of young women and girls
Chained in silence : Black women and convict labor in the new South
Challenging years : the memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch
Chicago legal news : journal of legal intelligence
Child care and child welfare : two reports from the GAO
Child care and equal opportunity for women
Chinese women, yesterday & to-day
Choosing women for war-industry jobs
Chronological development of labor legislation for women in the United States
Citizens' Advisory Council releases task force recommendations
Civic and political education of women
Civil office and political ethics : with an appendix, containing familiar law relating to husband and wife, parent and child, guardian and ward, wills, executors and administrators, witnesses, jurors, and arbitrators : for the use of citizens and schools
Civil protection orders : legislation, current court practice, and enforcement
Cloning : a risk to women? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, March 27, 2003
Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South
Closing legal loopholes : prosecuting sexual assaults and other violent crimes committed overseas by American civilians in a combat environment : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 9. 2008
Coercive population control in China : hearings before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, May 17, June 22 and 28, and July 19, 1995
Colonial dames and good wives
Columbia journal of gender and law
Combating human trafficking in China : hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 6, 2006
Comfort women : an unfinished ordeal : report of a mission
Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic : in regard to contracts, rights, and remedies, and especially in regard to marriages, divorces, wills, successions, and judgements
Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic : in regard to contracts, rights, and remedies, and especially in regard to marriages, divorces, wills, successions, and judgments
Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic : in regard to contracts, rights, and remedies, and especially in regard to marriages, divorces, wills, successions, and judgments
Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic, in regard to contracts, rights, and remedies, and especially in regard to marriages, divorces, wills, successions and judgments
Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic, in regard to contracts, rights, and remedies, and especially in regard to marriages, divorces, wills, successions, and judgments
Commentaries on the law of marriage and divorce, and evidence in matrimonial suits
Commentaries on the law of marriage and divorce, and evidence in matrimonial suits
Commentaries on the law of married women : under the statutes of the several states, and at common law and in equity
Committee on Woman Suffrage : hearing before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, second session, on resolution establishing a Committee on Woman Suffrage, December 3, 4, and 5, 1913
Common law marriage and its development in the United States
Common sense about women
Community services for women war workers
Comparable worth, every woman's right
Comparison of employment trends for women and minorities in forty-five selected federal agencies, 1980
Comparison of titles VI & VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Americans with Disabilities Act; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972; and Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Compendium of Alabama laws relating to women and children
Comprehensive index to notable American women, 1932, 1937, 1941
Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Conference on divorce, February 29, 1952
Conference on the Educational and Occupational Needs of American Indian Women, October 12 and 13, 1976
Conference workbooks
Confronting domestic violence : a guide for criminal justice agencies
Confronting rape and other forms of violence against women in conflict zones spotlight : DRC and Sudan : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs and the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, May 13, 2009
Conserving marriage and the family : a realistic discussion of the divorce problem
Considerations on divorce a vinculo matrimonii : in connexion with Holy Scripture
Constitutional equality a right of woman, or, A consideration of the various relations which she sustains as a necessary part of the body of society and humanity : with her duties to herself, together with a review of the Constitution of the United States, showing that the right to vote is guaranteed to all citizens : also a review of the rights of children
Consumer protection and patient safety issues involving bogus abortion clinics : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, Washington, DC, September 20, 1991
Convención interamericana sobre concesión de los derechos civiles a la mujer, suscrita en la Novena Conferencia Internacional Americana, Bogotá, marzo 30-mayo 2, 1948 : Inter-American convention on the granting of civil rights to women, signed at the Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogotá, March 30-May 2, 1948 = Convenção interamericana sõbre a concessão dos direitos civis à mulher, assinada na Nona Conferência Internacional Americana, Bogotá, 30 de Marco a 2 de Maio de 1948 = Convention interaméricaine sur la concession des droits civils à la femme, signée à la Neuvième Conférence Internationale Américaine, Bogotá, 20 mars-2 mai 1948
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) : a fact sheet
Court revisits abortion and hospital admitting-privileges requirement
Courtship and marriage : a study in social relationships
Critical essay concerning marriage : shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a single life : II. The arguments for and against a plurality of wives and concubines : III. The authority of parents and governors, in regulating or restraining marriages : IV. The power of husbands, and the privileges of wives : V. The nature of divorce, and in what cases it is allowable : VI. The reasons of prohibiting marriage within certain degrees : VII. The manner of contracting espousals, and what engagements and promises of marriage are binding : VIII. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine marriages and the consequences attending marriages solemnized by the Dissenters : to which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans and our Saxon ancestors and of most nations of the world at this day
Crusader and feminist : letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865
Das chinesische Familienrecht
DePaul journal of women, gender & the law
Defense of Marriage Act : a legislative history of Public Law No. 104-199
Defining women : television and the case of Cagney & Lacey
Delinquent daughters : protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Diary of Elizabeth Reed
Digest of the law relating to common law marriage : in the states, territories, and dependencies of the United States
Directory of medical women, 1949
Disabilities of American women married abroad : foreign treaties of the United States in conflict with state laws relative to the transmission of real estate to aliens
District of Columbia : a brief review of provisions in the District of Columbia appropriations acts restricting the funding of abortion services
District of Columbia sexual assault laws : hearing before the Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session on S. Res. 207, to reform the sexual assault laws of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, September 30, 1981
Divorce : a study in social causation
Divorce in the Americas
Divorce laws of the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba and Mexico
Divorce problems handbook : a practical guidebook to divorce problems and the law of divorce in 50 States
Documents of the Women's Bar Association Foundation, 2005-2006
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 1
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 10
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 2
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 3
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 4
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 5
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 6
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 7
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 8
Documents related to the investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, Volume 9
Domestic and sexual violence data collection : a report to Congress under the Violence Against Women Act
Domestic duties, or, Instructions to young married ladies, on the management of their households, and the regulation of their conduct in the various relations and duties of married life
Domestic relations
Domestic violence : the hidden crime
Domestic violence by police officers : a compilation of papers submitted to the Domestic Violence by Police Officers Conference at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA
Domestic violence, prevention and services : hearings before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, hearings held in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 11, 1979
Domestic violence, stalking, and antistalking legislation : an annual report to Congress under the Violence Against Women Act
Domicile of wife unlawfully separated from her husband : a historical synopsis and canonical commentary
Dramatic pieces : calculated to exemplify the mode of conduct which will render young ladies both amiable and happy, when their school education is completed : in three volumes
Duke journal of gender law & policy
Dukeminier awards : best sexual orientation and gender identity law review
Ecce femina : an attempt to solve the woman question : being an examination of arguments in favor of female suffrage by John Stuart Mill and others, and a presentation of arguments against the proposed change in the constitution of society
Economic feminism in American literature prior to 1848
Economic indicators relating to equal pay, 1963
Economic status of women : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, February 3, 1982
Education and a woman's life : proceedings of the Itasca Conference on the Continuing Education of Women, Itasca State Park, Minnesota
Effect of workmen's compensation laws in diminishing the necessity of industrial employment of women and children
Effective industrial use of women in the defense program
Effects of anesthesia during a partial-birth abortion : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, March 21, 1996
Efforts toward sex fairness in the use of Education Division funds
Elements of the law of domestic relations and of employer and employed
Eliminating the gaps : examining women veterans' issues : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 16, 2009
Elimination of sex discrimination in athletic programs : memorandum to chief State school officers, superintendents of local education agencies, and college and university presidents
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
Eminent women : recipients of the National Achievement Award
Employment : a workshop guide
Employment goals of the world : plan of action : developments and issues in the United States : report for the World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women, 1976-1985
Employment of older women : an annotated bibliography : hiring practices, attitudes, work performance
Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the war : reprints of the memoranda of the British Health of Munition Workers Committee
Employment of women on underground work in mines of all kinds : second item on the agenda
Employment of women on underground work in mines of all kinds : sixth item on the agenda
Employment problems of women, minorities, and youths : hearings before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, July 7 and 8, 1975
Energy Supply Act (Title IX) : hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy Regulation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session on S. 1308, a bill to set forth a national program for the full development of energy supply, and for other purposes, July 10 and 12, 1979
English domestic relations 1487-1653 : a study of matrimony and family life in theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law and history of the period
English laws for women in the nineteenth century
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 : P.L. 82-261, 86 Stat. 103, March 24, 1972
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : hearings before the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session on H.R. 15826, a bill to terminate discrimination in employment : hearings held in Washington, D.C., September 17, 18, and 19, 1974
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission update : policies on pay equity and Title VII enforcement : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, June 21, 1985
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's handling of pay equity cases : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, February 29 and March 14, 1984
Equal Pay Act of 1962 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session on S. 2494 and H.R. 11677, to provide equal pay for equal work regardless of sex : statements submitted in lieu of oral testimony, August 1, 1962
Equal Pay Act of 1963 : P.L. 88-38, 77 Stat. 56, June 10, 1963
Equal Pay Act of 1963 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on S. 882 and S. 910 to ammend the Equal Pay Act of 1963, April 2-3, and 16, 1963
Equal Rights Amendment extension : hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first and second sessions on H.J. Res. 638, extending the ratification period for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, November 1, 4, and 8, 1977; and May 17, 18, 19, 1978
Equal pay : a thirty-five year perspective
Equal pay for equal work : federal equal pay law of 1963
Equal pay for equal work : hearings before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session on H.R. 8898; H.R. 10226, and various bills, to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce and to provide for the restitution of wages lost by employees by reason of any such discrimination, Part 1, Hearings held in Washington, D.C., March 26, 27, and 28, 1962
Equal pay for equal work : the story of the struggle for justice being made by the women teachers of the city of New York
Equal pay for equal work for women : hearings before Subcommittee No. 4 of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, second session on H.R. 4273 and H.R. 4408, bills proposing equal work for women, and for other purposes, February 9, 10, 11, and 13, 1948
Equal pay for equal work for women : hearings before a special subcommittee on the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, second session on H.R. 1584 and H.R. 2438, bills providing equal pay for equal work for women, and for other purposes, hearings held at Washington, D.C., May 17, 18, and 19, 1950
Equal pay for equal work? : new evidence on the persistence of the gender pay gap : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, April 28, 2009
Equal rights : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 39, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women, April 11 and 13, 1956
Equal rights amendment : a workshop guide
Equal rights amendment : hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on S.J. Res. 61, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women, September 28, 1945
Equal rights amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session on H.J. Res. 1, equal rights amendment, July 13, September 14, October 20, 26, and November 3, 1983
Equal rights amendment to the Constitution and Commission on the Legal Status of Women : hearings before Subcommittee No. 1 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, second session on H.J. Res. 49, H.J. Res. 62, H.J. Res. 85, H.J. Res. 86, H.J. Res. 89, H.J. Res. 104, and H.J. Res. 110, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. relative to equal rights for men and women : and H.R. 1972, H.R. 1996, H.R. 2003, H.R. 2007, H.R. 2035, H.R. 2323, and H.R. 3028, to establish a commission on the legal status of women in the United States, to declare a policy as to distinctions based on sex in law and administration, and for other purposes, March 10 and 12, 1948
Equal rights amendments : state provisions
Equal rights for all
Equal rights for women : a speech
Equal suffrage : the results of an investigation in Colorado made for the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of New York State
Equality before the law
Equality before the law: justice for women
Equality before the law: women's access to the legal system
Equality before the law: women's equality
Escalating violence against Coptic women and girls : will the new Egypt be more dangerous than the old? : hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, July 18, 2012
Essai sur la législation des peuples anciens et modernes relative aux enfants nés hors mariage : suivi de quelques observations d'économie sociale sur le même sujet
Essay on divorce and divorce legislation, with special reference to the United States
Essays in fallacy

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