Behar, Ruth

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

Boston, Massachusetts, Beacon Press, 1993. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Laid in is a fetching tribute to the teacher from a student of the former owner, the ethnograph extraordinaire, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi. Uunfurled tips, tight binding, and with former owner's penned inscription, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear but with some pink highlighting showing a scholar's concerns. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [1], 2-372 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 358756

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Esperanza Ruth Behar Mexico Women's Studies feminist theory ethnography

Bell, Margaret

Margaret Fuller

New York, Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Pink printed, illustrated wraps, with a black-and-white likeness of the 19th century feminist. Clean, unmarked interior, moderately rubbed wraps, fine duotone endpapers front and rear, and with Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Housed in a plastic sleeve. 320 pp. and with title page illustrations by Rockwell Kent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357865

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Keywords: Margaret Bell Margaret Fuller Women's Studies biography feminists Eleanor Roosevelt

Birnbaum, Paula J.

Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities

Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uncommonly found in the trade in this state and condition, being a Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present, and in virtually As New condition inside and out. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxi [2], 2-279 pp. .Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 353742

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Paula J. Birnbaum women artists women's art history W.W.I. W.W.I.I. French history and culture Interwar France

Bonaparte, Marie

Female Sexuality

New York, International Universities Press, 1973. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First International University Press edition, from the personal library of a noted sex researcher Michael C. Weidemann. Internally clean tradepaper, unmarked and quite bright, very lightly soiled front cover, with former price sticker neatly affixed. Crimp to final two pages, rear panel upper tip. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [2], 3-124 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356757

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: Sigmund Freud Freudian neo-Freudian Marie Bonaparte female sexuality

The Women's Press Collective

A Lot of Five (5) Issues of Women's Press: A Women's News Journal

Eugene, Oregon, The Women's Press Collective, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uncommon in the trade, there being only scattered copies available otherwise. Very Good condition set of five (5) issues of an influential and early feminist press, published in Eugene, Oregon, by The Women's Press Collective. Measuring 17" x 23", a newsprint newspaper, center-folded to 11 1/2" x 17" and folded again as issued. Some age toning, minimal closed tears to deckled edges, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. Replete with black-and-white photographs and artwork. The lot of five issues includes: 1971 Vol. 1 No. 3: features on childcare and women and war, Vol. 1 No. 2: features on Angela Davis and Jane Fonda, Vol. 1 No. 9: features on racism and sexism at Attica, Shirley Chisholm, and Angela Davis, Vol. 1 No. 10: features on women in prison, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Shirley Wheeler; 1971-72 Vol. 1 No. 11-12: features on the abortion march, marriage and welfare. The Women's Press was produced by the Women's Press Collective in Eugene, Oregon from 1970 to 1997, and its contributors, editors, artists and reviewers discussed the issues of women's liberation including sexual discrimination and assault, childcare, abortion, the treatment of women in prisons, women in politics, protests, and actionable instruction for home-based feminism.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 357786

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: women's presses feminist newspapers women's studies feminist newspapers Angela Davis Jane Fonda racism and sexism at Attica Shirley Chisholm Angela Davis prison Zelda Fitzgerald Shirley Wheeler abortion marriage welfare sexual discrimination sexual assaul

Crowhurst, Anna-Marie

Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism

London, England / Sydney, New South Wales, Austral, Welbeck Publishing, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, no discernible wear to the brightly colorful glossy boards, bright interior, unmarked. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Straight out of the original packing boxes. From the publisher's blurb, "Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonce, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement achieved what had previously been unimaginable: a woman's right to vote. Four waves of feminism and a century on, the rich cultural history of this movement is truly worthy of celebration. Accompanied by stunning photographs, personal testimony essays from key figures and archive material from sources around the world, Anna-Marie Crowhurst's compelling and entertaining retelling of this multi-stranded, global and ongoing story also examines the flaws of the movement and the future of feminism. Personal testimony essays from: Alice Coffin; Juno Dawson; Diana Evans; Nadia Ghulam; Susie Orbach; Helen Pankhurst; Gisela Perez de Acha; Laura Perlongo; Emeli Sande; Anne Wafula Strike; Hibo Wardere; Harriet Wistrich; Rosie Wolfenden. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.[9], 10-352 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 359551

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Anna-Marie Crowhurst feminism women's studies feminist theory political activism Alice Coffin Juno Dawson Diana Evans Nadia Ghulam Susie Orbach Helen Pankhurst Gisela Perez de Acha Laura Perlongo Emeli Sande Anne Wafula Strike Hibo Wardere Harriet Wistric

Hull, Suzanne W.

Chaste, Silent & Obedient: English Books for Women 1475-1640

San Marino, California, Huntington Library, 1988. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 1988 reprint of the 1982 original first edition, the book springing from a Huntington Library exhibit. Detailed bibliographic lists include not only books speciically direct to women as a group, but also histories and biographies of famous women, as well as books whose subjects were specifically within a woman's province. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [2], 2-247 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356125

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: books for women Suzanne W. Hull women's studies literature English English women

Humphreys, S. C.

The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies, Second Edition

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1993. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, though with sunning to spine. The Table of Contents shows: Oikos and polis; Public and private interests in classical Athens; Women in Antiquity: Appendix I: Greeks and 'others' Appendix II: Greek Sexuality; Family in classical Athens: search for a perspective; Family tombs and tomb-cult in classical Athens: tradition or traditionalism? Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City Part I (A. Momigliano) Part II (S.C.H. ); Death and time; comparative perspectives on death. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.lviii 2-220 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 359408

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: S.C. Humphreys The Family women's studies death Su

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich

Women and the Invention of American Anthropology

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press, 1999. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A few penned tick-marks here and there, unobtrusive. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs evincing the full panoply of women's contributions to American anthropology. Contributions by and about Erminnie Smith, Alice Fletcher, Matilda Stevenson, Zelia Nuttall, Frances Densmore, Elsie Clews Parsons and others. Reprint Edition of the 1966original. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 358218

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: women in cultural anthropology Nancy Oestreich Lurie American Anthropology

Ownby, Joanna C.

A Century of Women's Costume: 1814 - 1914

Sacramento, California, Crocker Art Museum, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. A fine looking gallery exhibit catalog from the Crocker Art Museum, devoted to a century of women's costume, with a lengthy Introduction to the catalog by Joanna C. Ownby following the Preface by Richard V. West. 41 items depicted in black-and-white reproductions. Oblong trade softcover format, glossy pictorial wraps. Unpaginated, but roughly 20 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 350400

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: women's costume|Joanna C. Ownby|Richard V. West

Palmer, George Herbert

The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Ninth Impression of this fabulous and inspiring biography of Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902), an American educator and eventually, President of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer, the author here. Her Wikipedia entry notes that, from 1892 to 1895, "she was dean of women at the newly founded University of Chicago." She advocated for women's and girls' education and sponsored the founding of the eventual American Association of University Women. A sumptuous rebinding of red marbled paper over boards, calf leather over tips and spine, five raised bands thereover, five fleurs-de-lis and gilt ruling to spine. Mild rubbing to joints, tips, spine head and foot. Marbled endpapers. Fine duotone portrait of subject at frontis, tissue-protected, and nine additional in black-and-white including photographs. 349 [1] pp. plus Chronology.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 355997

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: George Herbert Palmer Alice Freeman Palmer

Elsie Clews Parsons

The Old-Fashioned Woman: Primitive Fancies About the Sex

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an absolute mensch in American anthropology and sociology, pioneering the study of ethnology, ethnography, folklore and the first burgeonings of women's studies. She conducted ground-breaking fieldwork among the Tewa and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, and was a student of Franz Boas and was a co-founder of The New School for Social Research, edited journals and became the first woman president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association. Printed for G.P. Putnam's Sons by The Knickerbocker Press. Bound in very dark blue cloth, rubbed gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Front end-paper signed, "G. Legman 1952," the noted folklorist, bibliophile, book scout and erotophile. Some rubbing to extremities, and some faint dust soiling to top edge. viii [2], 2-373 [4] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 358701

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Elsie Clews Parsons Women's Studies Feminist Studies anthropology

Phinney, Harriet M.

Single Mothers and the State's Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the publisher's blurb, "In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. A number of these women chose to pursue single motherhood by "asking for a child" (xin con)-asking men to get them pregnant out of wedlock. Xin con appeared to be a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal reproductive interests. However, this innovative solution was rooted in both pre- and postwar values, practices, and notions of gender, kinship, love, and sexuality. This ethnography explores the practice of xin con among single mothers in the postwar era and today, and considers the ways their reproductive agency was embraced rather than rejected by the Vietnamese state as it entered the global market economy. Rather than condemning or trying to restrict older single women's reproductive agency, government officials enacted policies that would accommodate both the women and the state-a strategy that represents an intriguing alignment of Confucian heritage, Communist ideology, and governing tactics and demonstrates the social power of women." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvi [1], 2-219 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 358204

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: Harriet M. Phinney Single mothers Vietname reproduction reproductive agency state agency women's studies gender studies

Reed, Evelyn

Problems of Women's Liberation: A Marxist Approach

New York, Merit Publishers, 1969. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An early, flawed, but important take on the origins of male domination, rooted in kinship and family structure, relations of production, the myth of women's inferiority, Betty Friedan's "feminine mystique," and industrialization. A sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of covers, some chipping to tips, edges, penciled notes at first free endpaper, scattered pencil marks throughout. A perfectly readable, usable copy. Stated Second Edition. 63 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355976

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: cultural anthropology marxian approaches marxist approaches Marxism women's liberation

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Slight forward cock to spine. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, being that of the Richland, Oregon-based oil paints-based fine painter, Richard Murray. From the publisher's blurb, "Laurel Thatcher Ulrich coined the popular phrase, "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History," in the 1970s. It was originally intended to shine light on the prior lack of scholarly attention given to women in history--particularly those who appeared to play by societal rules. Resonating with women worldwide, the phrase was soon culturally co-opted to bolster those who acted in unexpected and "rebellious" ways. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian continued to focus on women who affect change in subtle fashion. An active member of the mainstream LDS church, Ulrich is uniquely suited to weave together diaries, letters, ledgers, albums, and meeting notes to tell the stories of first-generation Mormon women." With 12 pages of full-color illustrations, and 52 black-and-white illustrations and six maps in text. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxv [1], 2-484 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 358320

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Mormonism L.D.S. church Utah religion Christianity plural religion women's rights Early Mormonism polygyny