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Topics – Women’s Lit – Fiction Books about Women
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Women’s Lit Fiction – Categories
- Abused women
- Actresses
- Adultery
- African American women
- Amish
- Businesswomen
- Christian fiction
- Dating (Social customs)
- Divorced women
- Families
- Family life
- Farm life
- Fathers and daughters
- Female friendship
- Forensic pathologists
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Girls & Women
- Grandmothers
- Humorous stories
- Indian women
- Indians of North America
- Inheritance and succession
- Interpersonal relations
- Jewish women
- Lesbians
- Life change events
- Man-woman relationships
- Marriage
- Married women
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Middle-aged women
- Mothers and daughters
- Nuns
- Nurses
- Older women
- Overweight women
- Paranormal fiction
- Parent and adult child
- Policewomen
- Pregnant women
- Ranchers
- Revenge
- Rich people
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-realization
- Single mothers
- Single women
- Sisters
- Teenage girls
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Weddings
- Widows
- Witches
- Women – Crimes against
- Women – India
- Women air pilots
- Women and literature
- Women archaeologists
- Women artists
- Women authors
- Women clergy
- Women college students
- Women college teachers
- Women cooks
- Women detectives
- Women executives
- Women gardeners
- Women immigrants
- Women intelligence officers
- Women journalists
- Women judges
- Women lawyers
- Women murderers
- Women musicians
- Women novelists
- Women photographers
- Women physicians
- Women pioneers
- Women prisoners
- Women psychologists
- Women ranchers
- Women scientists
- Women singers
- Women soldiers
- Women spies
- Women teachers
- Women television journalists
- Women travelers
- Women veterinarians
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945 – Women
- Young women
Audiobooks – Women’s Lit – Fiction Books about Women
Audiobooks at Librivox were recorded by volunteer readers from books in the public domain (usually pre-1930). You can listen online or download MP3 files to your device without registering.
Librivox Audio Book Collection at Internet Archive – Women’s Novels Free
Feminist Publications
Feminist Press – Women’s Lit – Fiction Books about Women
Late 20th Century
Various Organizations
Over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism and women’s lit from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century.
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