There isn't any single book written from a non-feminist perspective, and there are many written to show women's oppression and the unfair limitations of their lives. But take a look, if you can, at anything written by Ernest Belfort Bax, especially his book *The Legal Subjection of Men,* published (in 1896) in response to John Stuart Mill's *The Subjection of Women.* Bax was a barrister and a journalist, and he writes about the lie that women were treated badly under Anglo-Saxon law. It is fascinating. Another book from this period is *Towards a Sane Feminism* by Wilma Miekle, published during the First World War, in which she (a feminist) admits that much of feminist activism was just upper-middle-class women having a great time. I agree with Eisso that autobiographies from previous eras are particularly interesting. Even feminist autobiographies reveal women's surprising freedoms and influence, their entrance into the professions, the encouragement they received from men, the respect they earned. Read a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, for example, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For oppressed women, they had a lot of male supporters and significant opportunities.