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  • LABORERS FOR LIBERTY: AMERICAN WOMEN 1865-1890: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 6. by (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Sigerman, Harriet .
    (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Sigerman, Harriet .
    LABORERS FOR LIBERTY: AMERICAN WOMEN 1865-1890: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 6.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The sixth 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: 0-19-5080467.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.

    Book ID: 48407
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  • NEW PATHS TO POWER: AMERICAN WOMEN 1890-1920: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 7. by (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Smith, Karen Manners .
    (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Smith, Karen Manners .
    NEW PATHS TO POWER: AMERICAN WOMEN 1890-1920: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 7.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The seventh 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: 0-19-5081110.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.

    Book ID: 48408
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  • TOO OLD, TOO UGLY AND NOT DEFERENTIAL TO MEN. by Craft, Christine.
    Craft, Christine.
    TOO OLD, TOO UGLY AND NOT DEFERENTIAL TO MEN.

    Edition: First hardcover printing.

    Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An anchorwoman's courageous battle against sex discrimination." An account of Craft's sucessful 1983 lawsuit after being fired for being "too old, too ugly and not deferential." Foreword by Larry King. INSCRIBED on the title page. Perhaps even more relevant now than it was when first published. Photographs. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-914629-654.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 49098
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  • WOMEN ON THE MARGINS: THREE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LIVES. by Davis, Natalie Zemon.
    Davis, Natalie Zemon.
    WOMEN ON THE MARGINS: THREE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LIVES.

    Edition: First edition.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on Glikl's memoirs, Marie's autobiography and correspondence, and Maria's writings on entomology and botany, this reconstructs the stories of three 17th century women who were not noblewomen, but "living in the margins" - "Glikl bas Judah Leib was a merchant of Hamburg and Metz whose Yiddish autobiography blends folktales with anecdotes about her two marriages, her twelve children, and her business. Marie de l'Incarnation, widowed young, became a mystic visionary among the Ursuline sisters and cofounder of the first Christian school for Amerindian women in North America. Her letters are a rich source of information about the Huron, Algonquin, Montagnais, and Iroquois peoples of Quebec. Maria Sibylla…

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    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on Glikl's memoirs, Marie's autobiography and correspondence, and Maria's writings on entomology and botany, this reconstructs the stories of three 17th century women who were not noblewomen, but "living in the margins" - "Glikl bas Judah Leib was a merchant of Hamburg and Metz whose Yiddish autobiography blends folktales with anecdotes about her two marriages, her twelve children, and her business. Marie de l'Incarnation, widowed young, became a mystic visionary among the Ursuline sisters and cofounder of the first Christian school for Amerindian women in North America. Her letters are a rich source of information about the Huron, Algonquin, Montagnais, and Iroquois peoples of Quebec. Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname." Photographs, extensive notes, index, 360 pp. ISBN: 0-674-95520.

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    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price clipped)

    Book ID: 61335
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  • Dayan, Yael.
    MY FATHER, HIS DAUGHTER.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of Moshe Dayan written by his daughter, and also her autobiography. A complicated and controversial story, but one written with love and respect.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 1592
    Keywords: israel, Women's Studies
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  • Dijkstra, Bram.
    EVIL SISTERS: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Show how the portrayal of woman as seductress, as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order and how the distorted ideas of gender, sex and race as reflected in paintings, in the cinema from Louise Brooks to Garbo and Dietrich and other femme fatales, and in fiction, ranging from Bram Stoker through Conrad, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner, continues to affect us today. SIGNED on the title page. 37 illustrations, bibliography, index. 480 pp. ISBN: 0394569458.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 37474
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  • Dodge, Mary Raymond.
    FIFTY LITTLE BUSINESSES FOR WOMEN.

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929 (c 1928). Hardcover - Perhaps one of the earliest books to look at women entrepreneurs in the US. Written in the optimistic days preceding the Depression, this is still timely and appealing . Among the suggestions are real estate, both urban and suburban (that counts as 2), a breakfast and lunch restaurant, antique shop, lending library (quite an interesting one), catering, shopping service, placement bureau, packing service and much more. 319 pages. Uncommon.

    Condition: Very good in blue cloth with white labels on front and spine (some fading to cloth on the spine.)

    Book ID: 19484
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  • [Douglas, Helen Gahagan] Scobie, Ingrid Wither
    CENTER STAGE: HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS, a Life

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the woman who was an actress, opera singer, Democratic National Committee woman and Congresswoman - and the target of Nixon's smear campaign in the 50's - but also the story of all woman who had to balance her public and private lives. Photographs, notes, index. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5068963.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 4854
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  • INTERCOURSE. by Dworkin, Andrea.
    Dworkin, Andrea.
    INTERCOURSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Free Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A controversial book by this noted feminist writer, one which argues that the essence of female oppression is rooted in the very act of intercourse itself. Among other things, it "analyzes the attitudes of five male writers towards women and human sexuality, discusses virginity and the connection between sexuality and political power, and looks at laws governing sexual behavior." Notes, bibliography, index. xi, 257 pp. ISBN: 0-029079705.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name, some very scattered marginal brackets and underlining, few spots of foxing to top edge of textblock)

    Book ID: 88805
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • THE LOWELL OFFERING: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845. by Eisler, Benita, editor.
    Eisler, Benita, editor.
    THE LOWELL OFFERING: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1980). In the mid 19th century, from the farms of New England, young women flocked to the mills, lured by what was at the time the highest wages paid to women - that is, from $1.85-3.00 a week - and seeking independence and opportunity. Despite their long hours in the mills, they still found time to write about their lives and aspirations in The Lowell Offering, their literary magazine. The selections in this book are edited and with an introduction and commentary by Benita Eisler. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-060907967.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 86517
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  • THE LOWELL OFFERING: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845. by Eisler, Benita, editor.
    Eisler, Benita, editor.
    THE LOWELL OFFERING: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1980). In the mid 19th century, from the farms of New England, young women flocked to the mills, lured by what was at the time the highest wages paid to women - that is, from $1.85-3.00 a week - and seeking independence and opportunity. Despite their long hours in the mills, they still found time to write about their lives and aspirations in The Lowell Offering, their literary magazine. The selections in this book are edited and with an introduction and commentary by Benita Eisler. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-060907967.

    Condition: Very good (toning to the pages, some marginal brackets in pencil)

    Book ID: 82268
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  • WOMEN AND WAR. by Elshtain, Jean Bethke
    Elshtain, Jean Bethke
    WOMEN AND WAR.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    Sussex, UK: The Harvester Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "philosopher and feminist demonstrates that the old myths - flattering to both men and women-will not do. They are defined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, and undermined by ambiguous issues-from the role of women in combat to the moral imperatives of just wars." Photographs, notes, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-7108-12388.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57595
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  • WATCH ME FLY: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. by Evers-Williams, Myrlie (with Melinda Blau.)
    Evers-Williams, Myrlie (with Melinda Blau.)
    WATCH ME FLY: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book - an autobiography of a remarkable life - by the widow of the slain Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers. Photographs, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-316255203.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line, light toning to pages, appears unread.)

    Book ID: 57399
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  • PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. by Evoy John J., S.J., and Van F. Christoph S.J.
    Evoy John J., S.J., and Van F. Christoph S.J.
    PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Sheed and Ward, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book based on a series of lectures (called Understanding Human Nature) given to nuns in 1960. It "deals in dialogue form with the application of psychological studies to the life of nuns." viii, 247 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (stamp on front endpaper, light sunning to edges of boards, toning to spine of dj)

    Book ID: 84107
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  • Faber, Doris
    THE LIFE OF LORENA HICKOK, E.R.'S FRIEND

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs. ISBN: 0-688-036317.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (spine slightly slanted.)

    Book ID: 8227
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  • Faber, Doris
    THE LIFE OF LORENA HICKOK, E.R.'S FRIEND

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs. ISBN: 0-688-036317.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj faded).

    Book ID: 8226
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  • SKIN DEEP: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity. by Featherston, Elena, editor.
    Featherston, Elena, editor.
    SKIN DEEP: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, (1994). First edition - Essays, memoirs and poetry - contributors include Saundra Sharp, Sapphire, Rita Arditti, Genny Lim, Rita Williams, Maria E. Barron, Nellie Wong and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the writer. Reading list, list of resources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-895947080.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67475
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  • Ferraro, Barbara and Hussey, Patricia with Jane O'Reilly
    NO TURNING BACK

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Poseidon Press, 1990. Hardcover first edition - Two nuns' battle with the Vatican over women's right to choose.

    Condition: NF/NF.

    Book ID: 3298
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE FROM MASSACHUSETTS: A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne - the Somme, 1916-l9l7, with an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial and Death of Edith Cavell. by Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Florence, 1874-1962.
    Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Florence, 1874-1962.
    THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE FROM MASSACHUSETTS: A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne - the Somme, 1916-l9l7, with an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial and Death of Edith Cavell.

    Edition: First edition.

    Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Edith Cavell was a British nurse who had established a training school for nurses in Belgium; after the War broke out, she saved the lives of those from both sides without discrimination, but she also helped 200 allied soldiers escape from Belgium - and for that she was convicted of treason and executed by the Germans in 1915. Massachusetts established a fund to recruit a nurse to serve in the War in the memory of Cavell - the nurse selected was Alice Fitzgerald, and this little book includes both some comments from her on her service and an account of Cavell's imprisonment. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 95 pp.

    Condition: Very good in tan boards with brown cloth spine (some rubbing and wear to the covers, black ink spots on back board.)

    Book ID: 77558
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  • JOURNEY. by Flexner, Eleanor.
    Flexner, Eleanor.
    JOURNEY.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers.

    Holyoke, MA: By the author, 1986. First edition - Uncommon collection of poems by this writer who was a feminist and activist best known for her landmark history on the women's rights movement in the US - "Century of Struggle" - as well as for a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. Published late in her life, these 18 poems (in 4 sections) are a reflection of moments over the years - with the final section named "Future." In 2020, Flexner was the subject of an article in the New York Times in their series "Forgotten No More" which places her firmly in history as a pioneering feminist in an era when feminism was disregarded. This chapbook was presumably printed in…

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    Holyoke, MA: By the author, 1986. First edition - Uncommon collection of poems by this writer who was a feminist and activist best known for her landmark history on the women's rights movement in the US - "Century of Struggle" - as well as for a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. Published late in her life, these 18 poems (in 4 sections) are a reflection of moments over the years - with the final section named "Future." In 2020, Flexner was the subject of an article in the New York Times in their series "Forgotten No More" which places her firmly in history as a pioneering feminist in an era when feminism was disregarded. This chapbook was presumably printed in only a limited number of copies: Worldcat only shows 5 holdings. Unpaginated (28 pp)

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    Condition: Very good in sky blue stapled covers with black lettering.

    Book ID: 84045
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  • Flexner, Eleanor (1908 - 1995)
    CENTURY OF STRUGGLE: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States.

    Edition: Trade paperback (revised edition.)

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. Covering more than 300 years, this book is considered "the first authoritative narrative of one of the great dimensions of American democratic history . . .it uncovered previously ignored narratives like the contributions of African-American women." (Ellne Carol DuBois in the NY Times. 2020) More than a half century later, it is still read and used by historians. Flexner was a self-educated scholar and activist, who is also known for her writing on the theater (her mother was a playwright.). ISBN: 0-674-106520.

    Condition: Good overall (underlining.)

    Book ID: 22902
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • SMART COOKIES DON'T CRUMBLE: A Modern Woman's Guide to Living and Loving Her Own Life. by Friedman, Sonya.
    Friedman, Sonya.
    SMART COOKIES DON'T CRUMBLE: A Modern Woman's Guide to Living and Loving Her Own Life.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "exposes the rationales s that keep women from taking the chances, from grabbing the opportunities that could change their lives" at any age. Based on both the author's personal stories and the narratives of other women from her years as a psychologist. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-399-130403.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 61342
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  • PEACE PILGRIM: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words by Friends of Peace Pilgrim
    Friends of Peace Pilgrim
    PEACE PILGRIM: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Santa FE, NM: Ocean Tree Books, (1985.). The story of a remarkable woman and her walking across the country from 1953 until her death in 1981. Illustrated with photographs. 198 pp. Laid in is a photocopied typed letter from the Peace Pilgrim Center in Hemet, California. ISBN: 0-943734-010.

    Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 41632
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • PEACE PILGRIM: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words by Friends of Peace Pilgrim
    Friends of Peace Pilgrim
    PEACE PILGRIM: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

    Edition: Compact edition - paperback

    Santa FE, NM: Ocean Tree Books, (1991.). The story of a remarkable woman and her walking across the country from 1953 until her death in 1981. Illustrated with photographs. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-943734-010.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 76586
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • KINAALADA: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony. by Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
    Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
    KINAALADA: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony.

    Edition: First printing.

    Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete, detailed account of the Navaho girls' puberty ritual, one of the most commonly performed but least examined elements of the Blessing Way complex,. Includes the Navoho text and translations and sheet music of 75 of the songs sung at the ritual. Based on the author's own experiences, and published accounts and on notes by other students. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, charts. Appendices, bibliography, index. xiii, [ 437 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust+ jacket (some minor edgewear to the dj, chip at bottom of dj spine.)

    Book ID: 43067
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  • THE FACES OF EVE: Women in the Nineteenth Century American Novel. by Fryer, Judith.
    Fryer, Judith.
    THE FACES OF EVE: Women in the Nineteenth Century American Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 19th century was a time of great social upheaval in America, especially in the relationship between the sexes, and this book studies the various and changing roles assigned to women in literature - from the myth of America as a New World Garden of Eden to women as temptress (Celia Madden and Hester Pyrnne), to the American princess (Isabel Archer and others), figures of the great mother - and the "unnatural women reformers of Boston." Notes, bibliography, index. x, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-19502025.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj).

    Book ID: 85042
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  • THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography. by [Fuller, Margaret 1810-1850] Matteson, John
    [Fuller, Margaret 1810-1850] Matteson, John
    THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which captures the complexity of this early American feminist writer. Fuller "outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeleys newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. While living in Europe she fell in love with an Italian nobleman, with whom she became pregnant out of wedlock. In 1848 she joined the fight for Italian independence and, the following year, reported on the struggle while nursing the wounded." She is the author or the first work of American feminism by a woman: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Illustrated, notes, sources, index. xvi, 510 pp. ISBN: 978-0393068054.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86589
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • (Gallant, Mavis) Russier, Gabrielle
    THE AFFAIR OF GABRIELLE RUSSIER

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover first edition - Letters from prison of a French schoolteacher prosecuted for an affair with a 16 year old boy. Includes a long interpretive essay by Mavis Gallant, a preface by Raymond Jean. Letters translated by Ghislaine Boulanger.

    Condition: NF/NF.

    Book ID: 8190
    Keywords: Women's Studies
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  • THE GYPSY-BACHELOR OF MANCHESTER: The Life of Mrs Gaskell's Demon. by [Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth] Bonaparte, Felicia.
    [Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth] Bonaparte, Felicia.
    THE GYPSY-BACHELOR OF MANCHESTER: The Life of Mrs Gaskell's Demon.

    Edition: First printing.

    Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at a writer who has come to personify the Victorian feminine ideal - "Through meticulous study of Mrs Gaskell's organising metaphors, Professor Bonaparte reveals that all her life she hid from herself a second self: an inadmissibly rebellious, daemonic "male" counter-force whose energies disrupted but also empowered her work." A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Notes, select bibliography, index. x, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-1390X.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 55969
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  • NOTES ON THE NEED FOR BEAUTY: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality. by Gendler, J. Ruth.
    Gendler, J. Ruth.
    NOTES ON THE NEED FOR BEAUTY: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Marlowe and Company/ Avalon, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Illustrated by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Notes, list of drawings, further reading, 240 pp plus final drawing. ISBN: 978-1569242926.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86045
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