In the text an account is given of the early literature of the movement for woman's emancipation in its relation to marriage. For further study may be consulted Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, _History of Woman Suffrage_ (New York and Rochester, 1881-87); Fawcett, Hirsch, _et al._, in Theodore Stanton's _Woman Question in Europe_ (New York, London, and Paris, 1884); Ostrogorski, _Rights of Women_ (London, 1893); Johnson, _Woman and the Republic_ (New York, 1897), strongly anti-suffrage; Legouvé, _Hist. morale des femmes_ (8th ed., Paris, n. d.); Cohn, _Die deutsche Frauenbewegung_ (Berlin, 1896), containing a select bibliography; Duboc, _Fünfzig Jahre Frauenfrage in Deutschland_; Sybel, _Ueber die Emancipation der Frauen_ (Bonn, 1870); Richter, _Das Recht der Frauen auf Arbeit_ (2d ed., Vienna, 1869); Büchner, _Ueber weibliche Berufsarten_ (Darmstadt, 1872); Morgenstern, _Frauenarbeit in Deutschland_ (Berlin, 1893); Hertzberg, _Der Beruf der Frau_ (Leipzig, 1892); Jastrow, _Das Recht der Frau_ (Berlin, 1897); Bridel, _Le droit des femmes_ (Paris, 1893); Günther (R.), _Weib und Sittlichkeit_ (Berlin, 1898); Günther (C.), _Das Recht der Frau auf Arbeit_ (Berlin, 1899); Mont, _Das Weib_ (2d ed., Leipzig, 1880); Gamble, _Evolution of Woman_ (New York, 1894); Bücher, _Die Frauenfrage in dem Mittelalter_ (Tübingen, 1882); and Mary Roberts Smith's able study of the "Statistics of College and Non-College Women," in _Pubs. of Am. Stat. Assoc._, VII (Boston, 1901). For further material see Bibliographical Notes IX, X, XI.] I. THE FUNCTION OF LEGISLATION