Free Social Sciences Books : Family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

by JackD · Published 13/10/2013 · Updated 02/03/2016

• Abortion: Questions and Answers (1991 edition) by Jack Willke and Barbara Willke (illustrated HTML at ohiolife.org)
• Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know by John Jefferson Davis (HTML at AOL)
• A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)
• A History of International Women’s Day in Words and Images by Joyce Stevens (illustrated HTML in Australia) 
• American Women in Civic Work by Helen Christine Bennett (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 1998by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (HTML at childstats.gov)
• Ancient Eugenics by Allen G. Roper (HTML at melvig.org)
• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  1. HTML at Bartleby
  2. HTML at UMD
  3. text at the English Server

   

• A Woman’s Philosophy of Woman: or Woman Affranchised by Jenny d’ Hericourt (HTML at pinn.net)
• A Woman’s Thoughts About Women by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (HTML at indiana.edu)
• 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

   

• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org) 
• Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence (illustrated HTML at SETIS)
• Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide by Henry Vernon Sattler (text at EWTN)
• Children in South Asia: Securing Their Rights by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)
• Colasterion by John Milton (text at UBC)
• Confessions of an Abortionist by Martin Avery (HTML at infidels.org) 
• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994) by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML and zipped Word at rushkoff.com)
• Debate on Birth Control by Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell (frame-dependent page images at MSU) 
• Demography of Aging, ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images at NAP)
• 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)
• Epistles on Women by Lucy Aikin (HTML at UC Davis)
• Ester Hath Hang’d Haman by Ester Sowernam
  1. HTML at pinn.net
  2. HTML at Oregon

   

• Family Limitation (1914 edition) by Margaret Sanger (page images at sc.edu)
• Family Limitation (1917 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU) 
• 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)
• Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! by Olive Logan (page images at MOA)
• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)
• How to Find a Lasting Relationship (1991 edition) by Richard Gosse (text at cupidnet.com)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)
• In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken
  1. HTML at Eldritch Press
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshopby National Research Council Committee on National Statistics (page images at NAP)
• Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women by Jane Anger (HTML at pinn.net) 
• Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States by Annie Porritt (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Womanby Sarah Moore Grimké (HTML at pinn.net)
• Letters to Dean by Paul Rosenfels (HTML at the English Server)
• Letter to the Women Of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary) by Mary Darby Robinson
• Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women by Ethel M. Smith (illustrated HTML at LOC) 
• Life at Home by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
• Little Essays of Love and Virtue (from a 1937 compilation) by Havelock Ellis (HTML at Virginia)
• Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)
• Lucinda Hinsdale Stone: Her Life Story and Reminiscences by Belle McArthur Perry (HTML and page images at LOC) 
• Making Policies for Children: A Study of the Federal Process, ed. by Cheryl D. Hayes (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)
• Man’s Rights: or, How Would You Like It? by Annie Denton Cridge (page images at MOA)
• Man Superior to Woman by A Gentleman (zipped text file in Australia)
• Marriage Is For Love by Richard L. Strauss (HTML and Word at bible.org)
• Morals and Marriage: The Catholic Background to Sex by Thomas Gilby Wayne (text at EWTN)
• Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana) 
• Productive Roles in an Older Sociery by Committee on an Aging Society (page images at NAP)
• Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (HTML at Indiana)
• Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, ed. by Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes (page images at NAP)
• SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (HTML at envirolink.org)
• Sex and Character (may be abridged?) by Otto Weininger (HTML and PC program in Australia)
• Sexual Ecstasy From Ancient Wisdom by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (zipped HTML with glyphs at summum.org)
• Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. by Caroline H. Bledsoe and Barney Cohen (page images at NAP) 
• 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)
• Tetrachordon by John Milton (text at UBC)
• 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)
• The Catholic Family Handbook by George A. Kelly (text at EWTN; 530K)
• The Centennial Situation of Woman by Alexander H. Bullock (page images at MOA)
• The Century of the Child by Ellen Key (HTML with commentary in the Netherlands) 
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce by John Milton (text at UBC)
• The Equal Rights Handbook by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (page images at iuniverse.com)
• The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox (HTML with commentary at Still Waters)
• 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)
• The Inheritance of Evil: Or, The Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife’s Sister by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter (Golden Gale archive format)
• The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce by Martin Bucer, trans. by John Milton (text at UBC) 
• 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

   

• The Man for Her by Leo J. Kinsella (text at EWTN)
• 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)
• The Moral Question of Abortion by Stephen Schwarz (illustrated HTML at ohiolife.org)
• The New Womanhood by Winnifred Harper Cooley (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels (HTML at Colorado)
• The Perfumed Garden by Nafzawi, trans. by Sir Richard Burton (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger (Gutenberg text)
• The Secret of the Silver Horse (HTML in Canada) 
• The Social and Built Environment in an Older Society by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council (page images at NAP)
• The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
  1. HTML in Australia
  2. text at Wiretap

   

• The Tasks of the Youth Leagues by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, trans. by Julius Katzer (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Unsex’d Females by Richard Polwhele (HTML at Virginia)
• The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habitsby Sarah Stickney Ellis (HTML at Indiana)
• The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Young Lady’s Counsellor by Daniel Wise (page images at MOA) 
• 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)
• Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent by Ezra Hervey Heywood (HTML at LOC)
• What a Young Boy Ought to Know (1905 edition) by Sylvanus Stall (HTML at nimbus.org)
• What Every Girl Should Know (1920 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU) 
• What Every Girl Should Know (1922 edition) by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
• What Every Mother Should Know, or How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth by Margaret Sanger (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
• 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)
• Who Cares for America’s Children?, ed. by Cheryl D. Hayes, John L. Palmer, and Martha J. Zaslow (page images at NAP) 
• Woman and Her Rights by Murtaza Mutahhari, trans. by M. A. Ansari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger (HTML at all.org)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller (HTML at eku.edu)
• Woman Man’s Equal by Thomas Webster (page images at MOA)
• Woman Not Inferior to Man by Sophia (IBM-PC program in Australia) 
• 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)

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