New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book '[In 1986] Caroline Paul was among the first dozen women to join the San Francisco Fire Department, nearly a decade ago. A Stanford graduate, she was a film student when a chance encounter and her own curiosity led to her to see whether she could pass the rigorous qualifying tests for the fire department.' SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-312185812.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book '[In 1986] Caroline Paul was among the first dozen women to join the San Francisco Fire Department, nearly a decade ago. A Stanford graduate, she was a film student when a chance encounter and her own curiosity led to her to see whether she could pass the rigorous qualifying tests for the fire department.' INSCRIBED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-312185812.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A colorful memoir by this senior correspondent for NPR, in which Lyden describes growing up the daughter of a mother suffering from manic depression. In her manic states, Dolores Lyden was the Queen of Sheba, a hostess of bizarre dinner parties or a promoter of outrageous business ventures. Lyden links her own journalist's wanderlust to her mother's escape into madness, and finds herself in places like Iraq and northern Ireland, where the whole world seems crazier than Dolores. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-395765315.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The private notebook of a remarkable woman of eighty-two encountering the challenge of old age." As an author, activist and Jungian psychoanalyst, Scott-Maxwell had a full life but as she looks at old age, she comments that she was astonished to find how intensely one lives in their eighties. 150 pp.

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "examines the development and history of the first American appliance, the cast-iron stove, which sparked debates on the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xix, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-815606508.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (2000) dj. First edition - "The story of two women - one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist. . Diagnosed with breast cancer, and troubled by a sense of work yet unfinished, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before - the aging, blunt, demanding Nisa, fragile Hwantla, Royal, translator and guide and others. We clearly see !Kung life, the dry grasslands, the healing dances, the threatening military presence. And we see Shostak herself, by turns amused and frustrated, who describes the disappointments - and chastening lessons - that inevitably follow when anthropologists (like her younger self) romanticize the !Kung." Photographs. 237 pp.

Toronto: Stoddart, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A provocative look at American families and especially our child rearing habits by this noted feminist. Boldly and very personally Notes, index. A rather uncommon edition with a much more striking dust jacket with an illustration by John Holmes. x 469 pp. ISBN: 0-773720219.

New York: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second nonfiction work by this influential feminist author and activist, "a critical history of the cultural construction of 'femininity' and associated beauty standards. In a moment when expectations of femininity were becoming retrenched amidst anti-feminist backlash, Brownmiller asserted that these demands imposed limitations on womens lives." (Jewish Women's Archive) Notes on sources, index. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-671246925.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1995). First edition - Papers presented at a conference held Nov. 1990 at York University and other essays from prominent feminist theorists and filmmakers, edited and with an introduction by Ada Testaferri. These essays explore how feminist ideas can be applied to and challenge established power structures in cinema. Among the 12 articles is 'The Myth of Pandora: A Psychoanalytical Approach' by Laura Mulvey; 'Women in the Shadows: Reclaiming a Metis Heritage' by Christine Welsh; 'Governing Lesbian Desire: Nocturne's Oedipal Fantasy' by Patricia White; 'Nell Shipman: A Case of Heroic Femininity' by Kay Armatage and more. Notes and works cited at the end of each essay; notes on contributors, index. xix, 229 pp. ISBN: 0-253209285.

New York & Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second autobiographical work by this important French existentialist and feminist, this covers the years from 1929 to 1944, and details her struggle to define her life and values during the tumultuous period leading up to World War II. It documents her intellectual journey, her unconventional partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, and her growing political engagement - although it was noted that she was "still full of bourgeois idealism and is focused on happiness, which she marks as characteristic of the times." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Translated from the French by Peter Green. 479 pp plus colophon.

New York & Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French existentialist writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, and only her fifth book to be published in the US. Inspired by her own life and her long relationship with Sartre, it both challenges the traditional roles assigned to men and women and dissects the psychological turmoil of a codependent trio in 1930s Paris, exploring the complexities of freedom, jealousy, and the destructive nature of relationships. The story's intense examination of how one's sense of self is both challenged and defined by another left a lasting mark on existentialist literature. Originally published as L'InvitŽe in France in 1943. 404 pp. Dust jacket by Laszlo Matulay.

New York: Norton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting study by this poet and feminist on the ambivalence with which society and women regard terrorists. Extensive notes, index. 395 pages. ISBN: 0-393-026426.

New York: Dutton, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Howard, a former Life staff writer, spent two years crossing the United States and talking to hundreds of women from rural matriachs to housewives at a Tupperware party to a high-powered big city attorney and the result is a book that "celebrates life, not ideology. It is at once a brilliant kaleidoscopic portrait of the American woman's coming of age from the 1950s to the 1970s and the tender, witty impassioned autobiography of a girl from the Midwest, now one of the nation's best journalists, coming to terms with her own womanhood." 413 pp. ISBN: 0-525093109.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1983). Hardcover first edition - A collection of 13 essays which portray the diversity of women's interests and challenge the notion that American women were not politically active from 1920 to 1940. Among the topics covered are 'The New Woman' by Estelle B. Freedman; 'Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Families, 1920-1940' by Rosalinda M. Gonzalez; 'Culture and Radical Politics by Norma Pratt; a photo essay on the work of Marion Post Wolcott 'Photographing Women' by Julie Boddy; "Discontented Black Feminists" by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and more. Edited and with an introduction by Lois Scharf and Joan M.Jensen. The 28th volume in the series, Contributions in Women's Studies. Illustrated with photographs and tables. Index, notes on contributors. viii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-313226946.

London: The Women's Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book "based on a highly acclaimed film made by Penny Forster and Imogen Sutton for the BBC series 'Bookmark' in which eleven women discuss the influence that de Beauvoir's life and work has had on them on their generation and on younger women today."" The contributors include Kate Millett, Helene de Beauvoir, Joyce Goodfellow, Ann Oakley, Marge Piercy, Marta Zabalera Hinrichsenn and others. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology, bibliography. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-704350440.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1990). A work which focuses on Schreiner "as a novelist, feminist and political activist. Born in 1855 to English missionaries working in Africa, hers was a lonely, self-educated childhood. . . When she sailed to England for medical training in 1881, she had with her the manuscripts of three novels, including The Story of an African Farm, her best known. On her return to Africa, Schreiner quickly became disillusioned with [the Boer cause and empire-builder Cecil Rhodes]. . She became an outspoken advocate for black citizenship; and her Women and Labour published in 1911 reflected a lifetime of thought on 'the Woman Question' and became a crucial work for early-20th-century feminists." Foreword by Nadine Gordimer. Notes, bibliography, index. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-813516226.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the "people's princess" which draws on earlier biographies, contemporary satires and plays. Nell Gwyn (16501687) was born into poverty but became a well-known actress and then mistress to King Charles II. 16 pages of color illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. x, 432 pp. ISBN: 0-87113926X.

Cincinnati: By the author, 1932. First edition - Sub-titled "An artiste living in Paris", this is a brief picture of Nourse, a painter, born in Ohio, who lived most of her life in Paris. She was the first American woman to be voted into the Socit Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Includes a section with quotations from her letters during World War I when - unlike many Americans - she chose to remain in Paris "where she worked to assist the war's refugees and solicited donations from her friends in the United States and Canada for the benefit of people whose lives were disrupted by the war." (wiki) Frontispiece self-portrait. 24 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank account by this artist and writer who was the house artist for the Manhattan nightclub The Box, before the 2008 financial crash, watched protest movements like Occupy Wall Street in NY and then become a journalist witnessing events in Guatanamo, Syria, Riker's Island and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Illustrated throughout with her drawings and paintings, most in color, and including many examples of her protest art. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0062797223.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Hardcover first edition - A history of the The English suffrage movement, which became known as the Militant Suffragettes: the voices, the faces, the memories, and the personal testimony of the women including Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney and others who fought - and won - the battle for the vote for white women. Illustrated with over 200 vintage photographs. A large, heavy book, rather uncommon in hardcover. Source material. x, 338 plus 3 pp index. ISBN: 0-394497341.

New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, (2019) fj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - true stories about the sex lives of three real - and very different - American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. In suburban Indiana, there is Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion; in North Dakota, there is Maggie, a high school student who allegedly who has a clandestine relationship with her married English teacher, and in the Northeast, there is Sloane, a successful restaurant owner, happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1451642292.