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  • LOST IN SPACE: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond. by Barr, Marleen S. ( Foreword by Marge Piercy)
    Barr, Marleen S. ( Foreword by Marge Piercy)
    LOST IN SPACE: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, (1993.). First edition - Discusses the works of such writers as Anne McCaffrey, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Jessica Amanda Salmanson, Kate Wilhelm, Tiptree and Octavia Butler, among others. Notes, references, index. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-807844217.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover.)

    Book ID: 55662
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  • ELLA PRICE'S JOURNAL. by Bryant, Dorothy.
    Bryant, Dorothy.
    ELLA PRICE'S JOURNAL.

    Edition: First printing.

    Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - A minor classic of feminist literature, the story of a woman who, through the process of keeping a journal, discovers ideas, people, books and - most importantly - herself. 257 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj (spine label on dj.)

    Book ID: 47428
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  • GODDESSES, GODDESSES. by Canan, Janine.
    Canan, Janine.
    GODDESSES, GODDESSES.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays - on art, nature, history, growing up in California (and considering leaving it), Iris Murdoch, James Broughton and other writers, and more - by this award-winning poet. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Includes an appendix with an 11 page list of Canan's publications. 305 pp. ISBN: 9781587901294.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63786
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  • Cooper, Jane; Braverman, Kate; Mairs, Nancy et als(Sallie Bingham & Frederick Snook, editors)
    THE AMERICAN VOICE, NO. 19, Summer 1990.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Louisville, KY: The Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1990. First edition - A quarterly magazine of poetry and prose. In addiition to the contributors listed above, this issue includes an essay by Marguerite Feitlowitz on the works of Angelica Gorodischer, the Argentinian writer for whom she is the American translator, and a story written in 1875 from the unpublished papersof Elizabeth Robins, which might be the first example of the use of the word "herstory." We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

    Condition: Fine in stiff wrappers.

    Book ID: 14672
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  • SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS. IN SEARCH OF THE MACHO MAN. by Daniell, Rosemary.
    Daniell, Rosemary.
    SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS. IN SEARCH OF THE MACHO MAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

    Condition: Very good+ in a near fine dust jacket (appears unread, but a spot on top edge (coffee?) with staining on approx 1/6" of upper edges of some pages.).

    Book ID: 8515
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  • SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man. by Daniell, Rosemary.
    Daniell, Rosemary.
    SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 40533
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  • SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man. by Daniell, Rosemary.
    Daniell, Rosemary.
    SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 2037
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  • Daniell, Rosemary.
    SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - SIGNED on the front endpaper. Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the edges of the dust jacket.)

    Book ID: 46677
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  • RUTH FIELDING AT GOLDEN PASS or The Perils of an Artificial Avalanche. #21 in series. by Emerson, Alice B. [Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward]
    Emerson, Alice B. [Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward]
    RUTH FIELDING AT GOLDEN PASS or The Perils of an Artificial Avalanche. #21 in series.

    Edition: First or very early edition.

    New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1928). Hardcover - Ruth receives financial backing from an unknown person, and the Ruth Fielding Film Company is created. Already a talented writer, Ruth is now a successful director. Ruth is also still postponing marriage to Tom. Towards the end of this book is a bit of rather astonishing dialogue for a juvenile series - Tom is jealous of an actor who kisses Ruth on screen, but the actor explains "I can't make love for a cent no matter how hard I try. You see, I don't care for girls that way, never did." Lists to this title at beginning of book, to #22 the ads at the rear. Glossy frontispiece. 205 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.

    Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering and illustration on front cover (bookplate, previous owner's name)

    Book ID: 73109
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  • TO HERLAND AND BEYOND: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. by [Gilman ,Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935] Lane, Ann J.
    [Gilman ,Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935] Lane, Ann J.
    TO HERLAND AND BEYOND: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major biography of this important feminist author, who, in addition to "Herland" (which depicted an utopia where women had equal rights) also wrote "Women and Economics" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and many more as well as being a lecturer on feminist issues and social reform. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliograqphy, index. xvi, 413. ISBN: 0-39450559X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88579
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  • SISTER NO BLUES. by Gossett, Hattie.
    Gossett, Hattie.
    SISTER NO BLUES.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books, (1998). First edition - Poems and prose poems, monologues and dialogues by this feminist writer - poems that detail the experiences of a black urban woman eking out a living as a waitress, cleaning person, office temp and more - drugs, racism, greed all play a part in these poems. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-932379494.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 64831
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  • THE CIVIL WARS OF JULIA WARD HOWE: A Biography. by [Howe, Julia Ward, 1819 - 1910] Showalter, Elaine,
    [Howe, Julia Ward, 1819 - 1910] Showalter, Elaine,
    THE CIVIL WARS OF JULIA WARD HOWE: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is described as "the first biography to reveal Julia Ward Howe - the author of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' - as a feminist pioneer who fought her own battle for creative freedom and independence. She was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. But he also wasted her inheritance, isolated and discouraged her, and opposed her literary ambitions." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. xiv, 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1451645903.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning)

    Book ID: 80672
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  • FACING TWO WAYS: The Story of My Life. by Ishimoto, Baroness Shidzue (1897-2001)
    Ishimoto, Baroness Shidzue (1897-2001)
    FACING TWO WAYS: The Story of My Life.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., (1935). Hardcover first edition - The memoirs of an 20th century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan. She was best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement and a strong supporter of labour reform. Born into a family of samurai, she married a young baron at an early age, and they began their life together at the Miike coal fields in Japan and she witnessed first hand the hardships endured by the miners. In 1922, she was Margaret Sanger's guide during her first trip to Japan. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. 373 pp.

    Condition: Good only in beige cloth with an illustrated pasted on label on the front cover, and a title label on the spine. (fraying to the sides of the spine, other wear.)

    Book ID: 55722
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  • Jacoby, Susan.
    THE POSSIBLE SHE.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, collection of articles which explores the extraordinary changes in the lives of women, and the influence of feminism on America. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-374236453.

    Condition: Very good in like dust jacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 61368
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  • HOW TO HEPBURN : Lessons on Living from Kate The Great by Karbo, Karen.
    Karbo, Karen.
    HOW TO HEPBURN : Lessons on Living from Kate The Great

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bloomsbury, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part guidebook and part biography, this is a wonderfully offbeat look at femininity and empowerment in 20th century America as embodied in the career of Katherine Hepburn. INSCRIBED "For--Turtlenecks rock, as we know. enjoy!" 193 pp. ISBN: 13579108642.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59649
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  • THE DOTTERY. by Kaschock, Kirsten.
    Kaschock, Kirsten.
    THE DOTTERY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2014). First edition - The third collection of poems - brief prose poems, in this case - by this author. Winner of the Donald Hall prize in poetry. Brian Teare calls this book "Irreverent, irrepressible and intelligent. . . [it] subjects the identity we call 'daughter'to a deeply feminist skepticism." 75 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72720
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  • Langbein, Julia.
    AMERICAN MERMAID.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story within a story which is satirical, thought-provoking and a brutal send-up of Hollywood. "Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel 'American Mermaid' becomes a bestseller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves to LA to turn the novel into an action flick with the help of some studio hacks. But as she's pressured to change her main character from a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen." 329 pp. ISBN: 978-0385549677.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88670
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  • THE COST OF LOVING: Woman and the New Fear of Intimacy. by Marshall, Megan.
    Marshall, Megan.
    THE COST OF LOVING: Woman and the New Fear of Intimacy.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Putnam, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interviews and insights of women from different backgrounds - discusses feminism, professional, self-fulfillment and sexual liberation and the definition of each to these women. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-399-12859.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 61341
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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMORIALS OF HARRIET MARTINEAU (2 volumes, complete) by Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 (edited by Maria Weston Chapman, 1806-1885)
    Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 (edited by Maria Weston Chapman, 1806-1885)
    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMORIALS OF HARRIET MARTINEAU (2 volumes, complete)

    Edition: Fourth edition (first published in the US in 1877.)

    Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Hardcover - The autobiography of one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century, edited and with a volume of Memorials by her long-time friend, the abolitionist, Maria Weston Chapman. In 1855, Martineau was diagnosed with a fatal disease and she wrote the first two volumes of this autobiography in 3 months, and had it printed up for immediate release upon her death - an event which came 21 years later. Originally published in 3 volumes, this American edition is complete in 2 volumes. Despite a life-long struggle with her health, and gradually increasing deafness beginning in childhood, Martineau's output and her influence was prodigious - the author of approximately 100 books…

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    Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Hardcover - The autobiography of one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century, edited and with a volume of Memorials by her long-time friend, the abolitionist, Maria Weston Chapman. In 1855, Martineau was diagnosed with a fatal disease and she wrote the first two volumes of this autobiography in 3 months, and had it printed up for immediate release upon her death - an event which came 21 years later. Originally published in 3 volumes, this American edition is complete in 2 volumes. Despite a life-long struggle with her health, and gradually increasing deafness beginning in childhood, Martineau's output and her influence was prodigious - the author of approximately 100 books and 1500 to 2000 editorials and articles, she was known for popularizing the ideas of James Mill, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentley and others. Gayle Graham Yates describes her as a protogenitor of the feminist movement: "thirty years before the beginning of an organized women's rights campaign in England, Harriet Martineau was a wide-ranging, progressive, and thorough-going feminist in nearly every sense in which that word is used today. Embracing practically every cause clearly in favor of woman's advancement in her lifetime [such as education, work, and marriage] and taking up certain issues that were not so definitely identified as parts of the feminist fabric until the 1960s and 1970s. Martineau was a giant among early feminists. . . . She was the first Englishwoman to make the analogy between the American woman's lot and the slave's." Illustrated with several plates. Volume 1: x, 594 pp; Volume 2: vi, 596 pp. This copy is an interesting association copy, it bears the name and annotations of G. R. Wieland, the noted paleobotanist, whose papers at Yale University include the manuscript of an article entitled 'Harriet Martineau's American Visit' - an indication of his serious interest in her life.

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    Condition: Good condition overall in embossed brown cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Foxing to the edges of the textblock and especially to the plates and tissue guard (the text is almost unaffected), previous owners' names (with the earliest being that of Pauline Esselborn, perhaps the wife of German immigrant and Ohio winemaker, Julius Esselborn), a little scattered pencilled underlining and marginal notations (erasable) and comments in both ink and pencil in the hand of G. R. Wieland on the blank rear pages.

    Book ID: 34067
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  • CITY OF DARKNESS, CITY OF LIGHT. by Piercy, Marge.
    Piercy, Marge.
    CITY OF DARKNESS, CITY OF LIGHT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1996). First edition - Historical novel set during the French Revolution, which focuses on the role women played. - "Claire Lacombe escapes the grinding poverty of her youth by becoming an actress in a traveling troupe. Beautiful and filled with the determination that can be forged by enduring hardship, she becomes an inspiring symbol as she dares to participate in pivotal events. Manon Philipon, a jeweler's daughter, idolizes Rousseau and the life of the mind. Marrying an austere government bureaucrat, she learns that she has an innate grasp of politics. Pauline Leon, the owner of a chocolate shop, is galvanized when she witnesses the executions of poor people rioting for bread." (Publishers Weekly), 468 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 85135
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  • SUBJECT TO DEBATE: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture by Pollitt, Katha,
    Pollitt, Katha,
    SUBJECT TO DEBATE: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Modern Library, (2001). SIGNED first edition - Includes 88 of her best - and most provocative - essays on topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, Clinton, Modern Library's list of 100 best novels of the century, the Taliban and more. These originally appeared over a period of seven years in her column in 'The Nation.' Includes a new introduction on feminism at the millennium. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed simply as Katha. Notes. xxviii, 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679783431.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages).

    Book ID: 87078
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  • [Rhys, Jean, 1890-1979] Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander and David Malcolm.
    JEAN RHYS: A Study in Short Fiction

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Twayne, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - In her 50 year career, Rhys produced just 5 novels and 3 volumes of short stories, but she was a central feminist and modernist voice in 20th century fiction. This is the first "full-length critical analysis of Rhys's contributions to the short story genre. Maintaining that Rhys's overriding interest was the outsider - 'the underdog, the normally silenced, the excluded, the ignored' - the Malcolms examine the stories from the perspective of this motif. Selected stories 6 among them 'Illusion', 'Mannequin', and 'Let Them Call It Jazz' - are given in-depth treatment, as are the heretofore neglected technical aspects of Rhys's work: narration, style, plot, action, and setting." Frontispiece portrait, chronology, selected bibliography, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-805708553.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (as new, but sunning to spine of dj)

    Book ID: 86553
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  • CAMELLIA STREET by Rodoreda. Merce (1908-1993); Sandra Cisneros, foreword, signed.
    Rodoreda. Merce (1908-1993); Sandra Cisneros, foreword, signed.
    CAMELLIA STREET

    Edition: First printing

    St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Story of Cecelia, a street corner prostitute in war-torn Barcelona in the 1940s and 1950s. "It is a profoundly feminist work that etches one powerless women's strength in the face of male brutality; it ends on a note of tenuous rebirth." Translated from the Catalan, and with an Introduction, by David H. Rosenthal. SIGNED by Sandra Cisneros at her foreword. 186 pp. ISBN: 1-55597-192X.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59492
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  • GOLDEN DAYS. by See, Carolyn.
    See, Carolyn.
    GOLDEN DAYS.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Century Hutchinson, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wild and witty combination of feminist fiction and post-nuclear apocalyptic fantasy set on the California coast, where nuclear war has melted the sandy beaches into multi-colored glass and a bunch of crazies are about to rescue the human race with a new beginning of "golden days." SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0561206.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86491
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  • GOLDEN DAYS. by See, Carolyn.
    See, Carolyn.
    GOLDEN DAYS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: McGraw-Hill, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wild and witty combination of feminist fiction and post-nuclear apocalyptic fantasy set on the California coast, where nuclear war has melted the sandy beaches into multi-colored glass and a bunch of crazies are about to rescue the human race with a new beginning of "golden days." INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Don't believe those other guys. Believe me." 196 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-07-0561206.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (phone number and name on front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 49914
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  • ROAR LIKE A GODDESS: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful. by Shunya, Acharya.
    Shunya, Acharya.
    ROAR LIKE A GODDESS: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Boulder, CO: Sounds True, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A book by a Vedic spiritual teacher which re-envisions ancient India's primary goddess archetypes. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "with love." Notes. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1683648826.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87846
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  • FIRE WITH FIRE: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century. by Wolf, Naomi.
    Wolf, Naomi.
    FIRE WITH FIRE: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this sometimes rather controversial feminist author, perhaps more relevant now than ever. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xix, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-67942718X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 67790
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