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  • DECADES OF DISCONTENT: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940. by Scharf, Lois, and Joan M.Jensen, editors.
    Scharf, Lois, and Joan M.Jensen, editors.
    DECADES OF DISCONTENT: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940.

    Edition: First printing.

    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.

    Condition: Fine (as new) in green cloth with silver titles.

    Book ID: 92263
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  • HUNKY. by Williamson, Thames [Thomas Ross Williamson, 1894-1961]
    Williamson, Thames [Thomas Ross Williamson, 1894-1961]
    HUNKY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a simple Eastern European immigrant, a giant in size, but gentle at heart, who finds himself working in a bakery in Seattle. As one contemporary reviewer wrote "Ho, but this is the kind of workman that some people seem to think is the real thing. Ho! but unfortunately it is nothing more than an advanced case of amnesia. Ho! but who ever thought "Ho!" anyway.?" (Geoffrey Hellman, The Bookman). Still the story is not without its appeal. INSCRIBED on the title page "Autographed for Mr and Mrs H.O. Roberts. Best wishes and memories of Alaska. Seattle, July 29, 1929." 312 pp.

    Condition: Very good in terra cotta cloth with dark green lettering and design on front cover, white and terra cotta block print endpapers.

    Book ID: 58674
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