- Keyword = Women's Studies
-
PASTRIX: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Jericho Books, (2013). First edition - A book in which Bolz-Weber, a former stand-up comic, reclaims the term "pastrix"(a term used by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) in "her messy, beautiful, prayer-and-profanity laden narrative about an unconventional life of faith" - a book which portrays a woman who is "both deeply faithful and deeply flawed, giving hope to the rest of us along the way." 206 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81132More details Price: $17.50 -
THE NEW WOMEN AND THE OLD MEN; love, sex and the woman question.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1990 dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the men and women in G.B, Shaw's circle of New Thinkers, Fabians and social revolutionaries, including Havelock Ellis, Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, H. G. Wells, and Margaret Sanger. Index, notes, 294 pgs.,. ISBN: 0-393-0284-6.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (bookstore name written inside in ink, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 17682More details Price: $15.00 -
JOURNAL OF ANN BRANSON: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in embossed brown cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 35600More details Price: $85.00 -
THE WOMEN AT OXFORD: A Fragment of History.
Edition: First printing.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of the first century of women scholars at Oxford University. October 1959 marked the 80th anniversary of the establishment of women's colleges at Oxford - this is an account of the reforms that made this possible, of early prejudices and of some of the notable women who passed through Oxford by an author who was herself one of those women. Illustrated with eight plates in half tone. Definition of terms used at Oxford. Several appendices, bibliography, index. 272 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82266More details Price: $45.00 -
SEX AND THE OFFICE GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates / Random House, (1964). Hardcover first edition - Second book by the author of the best-selling "Sex and the Single Girl." One could describe this book as a compilation of "me, too" stories, since a common theme running through it is the manipulation of sex by more powerful male bosses - although Brown describes one year of being "kept" while still working as a secretary as "not that terrible." 309 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (brief note on half title page, and underlining on one page, edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 76255More details Price: $15.00 -
TOWARD A FEMINIST RHETORIC:The Writing of Gertrude Buck.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1996.). JoAnn Cambell gathers together for the first time the major work of Gertrude Buck, an innovative thinker and educator (professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 to 1922) including her most important articles on rhetorical theory and a selection from 'Poems and Plays.' Frontispiece and facsimiles of title pages, list of works cited. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-55733.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 26458More details Price: $9.50 -
PEGGY COVERS THE NEWS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in ivory colored cloth with black and red lettering, no dust jacket (some light soiling to covers)
Book ID: 86751More details Price: $75.00 -
THE AUDACITY OF INEZ BURNS: Dreams, Desire, Treachery and Ruin in the City of Gold.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 76305More details Price: $35.00 -
THE AUDACITY OF INEZ BURNS: Dreams, Desire, Treachery and Ruin in the City of Gold.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 80272More details Price: $31.50 -
THE GIRLS IN THE GANG.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York & Oxford: Basil Blackwell, (1984) dj. Hardcover - A study of three groups of warring gangs in New York's Harlem, Brooklyn and East New York, focusing on the experiences of one girl in each group. Photographs, notes, index. vii, 277 pp. ISBN: 0-631-133747.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58413More details Price: $15.00 -
ANN THE WORD: The Life of Mother Ann Lee, Founder of the Shakers.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography written for older children of a colorful and controversial woman - Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker religious sect. The Shakers became the first successful communal religious society in the New World. Illustrated. Author's note, bibliography, index. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-316-1337671.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85917More details Price: $18.50 -
WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIETY.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1990. First edition - An examination of ten centuries of women's involvement in the fine arts, from the early middle ages through the Renaisssance, the Victorian era and into modern times, drawing on 20 years of research by feminist scholars and art historians. Includes 243 illustrations, 50 in ful color, bibliography and sources, index. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-500-202419.
Condition: Very good condition (a few scattered underlinings and marginal brackets.).
Book ID: 26701More details Price: $10.00 -
DAUGHTERS OF CHANGE: Growing Up Female in America.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on interviews with young women and their mothers, this is a examination of growing up as a female in America and the balancing act of being superwoman in the boardroom, classroom and bedroom. In addition young women now have to navigate through sex, drugs, pregnancy, suicide and anorexia nervosa. Bibliography, 232 pp. ISBN: 0-316-138207.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85962More details Price: $18.50 -
THE OBSESSION: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 71277More details Price: $12.50 -
THE OBSESSION: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62557More details Price: $18.50 -
WIRED WOMEN: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Seattle: Seal Press, (1996). First edition - A look at women and the new Internet technology, collecting fifteen essays that discuss such issues as gender attitudes, courtship via e-mail and romance on the infobahn, the sexist marketing of computers and software, censorship, and the abuse of women by the "hacker" underground, to the overall role of women in science. Contributors include Ellen Ullman, Karen Coyle, Judy Malloy, Jean Camp and others. Notes on contributors. xv, 269 pp. ISBN: -1878067737.
Condition: Near fine in glossy orange wrappers.
Book ID: 78625More details Price: $16.50 -
EMBROIDERING OUR HERITAGE: The Dinner Party Needlework.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book which interweaves images and words, incorporating hand-drawn pages from the Dinner Party needlework. A collaborative work with Judy Chicago as the writer and illustrator, needlework background by Susan Hill, designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and with additional technical drawings by Shannon Hogan and special photographs by Michael Alexander. Large format, illustrated throughout with many full color plates and black and white drawings and photographs. Glossary and attributions. 287 pp plus a final drawing. ISBN: 0-385145683.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (the upper corner of a few pages bumped, edgewear to the dj
Book ID: 87439More details Price: $60.00 -
SOME PARADOX! SOME IRONY! THE CHANGING IMAGE OF AMERICAN WOMAN 1930-1974
Edition: First thus.
[Sacramento: CA]: By the author, nd (ca 1977.). First edition - Separate publication of an essay which originally was included in "The Study of American Culture/Contemporary Conflicts." Examines female stereotypes in the media, in advertising, and in popular and high arts. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. pp 122-176 . The author grew up in a Finnish immigrant community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was the first to receive a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Michigan and was a leader in the ASA Commission on the Status of Women.
Condition: Very good in stapled pink wrappers (some scattered highlighting in the first half).
Book ID: 41227More details Price: $20.00 -
SPEAKING OF HILLARY: A Reader's Guide to the Most Controversial Woman in America.
Edition: First printing.
Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A balanced collection of essays on and by Hillary Clinton on her social, political and personal life. Contributors include Christopher Hitchens, Dee Dee Myers, Susan Faludi, Walter Shapiro, Katha Pollitt, Maureen Dowd, Henry Lewis Gates, Ellen Goodman, Anna Quindlen, and many more. includes bibliography, 311 pp. ISBN: 1-883991-34X.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket(closed tear to upper edge of dj at side of spine)
Book ID: 61332More details Price: $18.50 -
AMERICA'S WOMEN: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76027More details Price: $20.00 -
WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009). First edition - A mixture of oral history and research, this covers the years from 1960 to 2008. Notes, bibliography. xix, 453 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89026More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LADY WITH BALLS: A Single Mother's Triumphant Battle In A Man's World.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The story of a woman's determination to succeed in business, no matter what the obstacles - she "broke into the previously all-male arena of selling the kind of wire that supermarkets and other businesses use to bind cardboard boxes into recyclable bales. Knowing nothing about the recycling process or the industry's baler-wire needs, she taught herself all the details of the trade, figured out how to be an efficient employer, and learned to fend off predatory competitors on her way to turning her small start-up, Vulcan Wire, into a thriving company that sells over $10 million in wire per year." SIGNED on the title page. Endnotes. x, 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0998785417.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81576More details Price: $25.00 -
RADIOACTIVE: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Young Readers, 2018. First edition - Written for older children, this is the story of how story of how two brilliant female physicistsÕ groundbreaking discoveries in the 1930s led to the creation of the atomic bomb, although neither got the recognition they deserved. Photographs. Glossary, who's who, notes, bibliography. 213 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 81165More details Price: $15.00 -
WALKING OUT ON THE BOYS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Memoir by the the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, who, in May 1991, "made headlines news when she resigned from her position at Stanford University to protest the medical school's overt and long-engrained gender discrimination. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-374-286213.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34628More details Price: $12.50 -
A HERITAGE OF HER OWN: Toward A New Social History of American Woman.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979). Essays examining the day to day lives, aspirations, accomplishments and social relationships of women from the 17th century to modern day, from plantation wives to mill-workers, from enslaved women, to mother's wages, birth control, cookbooks and more. Among the authors included Gerda Lerner, Eugene Genovese, Linda Gordon and others. Introduction by the editors. Based on source material including divorce records and diaries. Notes at the end of each essays, suggestions for further reading, index, 608 pp. ISBN: 0-671-250698.
Condition: Very good (minor shelfwear and usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 86234More details Price: $16.50 -
ROOT OF BITTERNESS: Documents of the Social History of American Women.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Dutton, 1971. First edition - An excellent anthology of primary sources from Colonial days to the early 20th century. Included are excerpts from women's diaries and journals, autobiographies and manifestos - examples range from a letter from an indentured servant, court records from Suffolk County in Massachusetts, the petition for a 10 hour work-day from the Lowell millworkers and much more. Edited and with an introduction by Cott. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-525-473289.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 24347More details Price: $12.00 -
THE ROAD TO EQUALITY: AMERICAN WOMEN 1940-1961: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 10.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The tenth volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5083253.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.
Book ID: 48411More details Price: $15.00 -
FROM BALLOTS TO BREADLINES: AMERICAN WOMEN 1920-1940: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 8.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The eighth volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5080637.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.
Book ID: 48409More details Price: $15.00 -
PUSHING THE LIMITS: AMERICAN WOMEN 1940-1961: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 9.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The ninth volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-19-508084x.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.
Book ID: 48410More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LIMITS OF INDEPENDENCE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1760-1800: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 3.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The third volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5081250.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.
Book ID: 48404More details Price: $15.00