Editing Women's rights (section)

===== United States =====
{{Further|Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other than voting)}}
The [[Women's Christian Temperance Union]] (WCTU) was established in 1873 and championed women's rights, including advocating for prostitutes and for [[women's suffrage]].<ref name="MarionOliver2014">{{cite book |last1=Marion |first1=Nancy E. |last2=Oliver |first2=Willard M. |title=Drugs in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law |date=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781610695961 |page=963 |language=en}}</ref> Women had access to legal handbooks specific for women such as "Every woman her own lawyer: a private guide in all matters of law" (1858) by George Bishop, which informed women of how to deal with property, marriage, divorce, violence, children, abandonment, economic issues, assets, etc.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bishop |first1=George |title=Every Woman Her Own Lawyer : A Private Guide in all matters of Law, of essential interest to women |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437122561133&seq=7 |website=HathiTrust - Ohio State University |publisher=Dick and Fitzgerald Publishers |language=en |date=1858}}</ref>