New Women and the Law Collection on Hein

HeinOnline’s newest collection on Women and the Law offers nearly 800 titles of an historical archive documenting the impact of women in society. The collection’s homepage lets you easily navigate to topical sub-collections covering abortion, women and education, women and employment, legal rights and suffrage, biographies of famous women, scholarly articles, and more. You can also click to find articles written by specific women scholars (such as Sandra Day O’Connor, Judith Resnick, or Carrie Menkel-Meadow), and external links to pathfinders and research portals on women and the law.

To get a sense of the scope of the collection, here are some notable titles –

  • History of Woman Suffrage
  • Feminism and Legal Theory Project
  • Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: A Legislative History
  • Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Story of the Struggle for Justice Being Made by the Women Teachers of the City of New York
  • Woman, Her Education and Influence
  • A Digest of American Marriage Laws in Their Social Aspects
  • Case for Acceptance of the Sheppard-Towner Act