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Women are female humans. The term woman (irregular plural: women) usually is used for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights".
Advocacy and women's rights
[edit]- Portal:Feminism
- Portal:Women's suffrage
- Statement on International Women's Day, March 8, 2009 by Barack Obama
- Supporting the Goals of International Women's Day, March 12, 2009 by Carolyn Bosher Maloney
Nature and biology
[edit]- "The Genesis of Woman" by in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (July 1874)
- "Woman's Place in Nature" by in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (January 1875)
- "Biology and Woman's Rights" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (December 1878)
- The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View
- "Science and the Woman Question" by in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (March 1882)
- "Equality and Inequality in Sex" by in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (December 1881)
- "Mental Differences of Men and Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (July 1887)
- "Emotions versus Health in Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 32 (February 1888)
Life and society
[edit]- The severall Habits of English Women and Theatru Mulierum by Wenceslaus Hollar (1640s)
- Essays on Various Subjects; Principally Designed for Young Ladies, by Hannah More, 1777 Project Gutenberg
- Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1787
- "Woman Suffrage as Affecting the Family" by in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (November 1874)
- "The Status of Women and Children" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (August 1877)
- "The Legal Position of Married Women" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (March 1881)
- Woman's Position According to the Bible (1885) by Annie Besant
- To Women from What to Do?, 1887 by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
- "Every-Day Life of Indian Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (November 1888)
- Of Women from Studies in Pessimism, 1880-90s by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders
- Workhouses and women's work (1858) by Louisa Twining
- An address to women (1885) by Harvey Goodwin
- The Future of Single Women (1884) by Frances Henrietta Müller
- A brief summary, in plain language, of the most important laws concerning women, together with a few observations thereon (1854) by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
- The Education and Employment of Women (1868) by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
- English laws for women in the nineteenth century (1854) by Caroline Norton
Professions and industry
[edit]- "Medicine as a Profession for Women" (1860) by Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell
- "Medicine as a Profession for Women" (1862) by Emily Davies
- "Woman's Work in the Middle Ages" by in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (107) (1866)
- "Woman and Political Power" by in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (May 1872)
- "The Relations of Women to the Professions and Skilled Labor" by in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (February 1875)
- The Relations of Women to Crime
- "Early Practice of Medicine by Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (December 1880)
- "The Industrial Position of Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (July 1883)
- "Women in Astronomy" by in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (February 1886)
- "Human Brain-Weights" by in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (July 1887)
- "The Relation of the Sexes to Government" by in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (October 1888)
Female education
[edit]- Portal:Female education
- The Higher Education of Women (1866) by Emily Davies
- Some Account of a Proposed New College for Women (1869) by Emily Davies
- "Hygiene in the Higher Education of Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (February 1880)
- "Education as an Aid to the Health of Women" by in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (October 1880)
- "Physical Training of Girls" by in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (February 1885)
- "The Higher Education of Woman" by in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)
- "Higher Education of Women and the Family" by in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (March 1887)
Biography
[edit]- A Woman of the Century (1893) edited by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
- Notable Irishwomen (1900) by Catherine Jane Hamilton
Women magazines
[edit]- The Lady's Realm (1896–1914)
Verse
[edit]- Women, 1922 by Louise Bogan