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

Chambers, P. Franklin

Juliana of Norwich: An Appreciation and an Anthology

London, Victor Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This fine and accessible biography of the 14th century English woman of letters, Juliana of Norwich, by P. Franklin Chambers, takes on the role of the Catholic Church in medieval history and with special focus on the place of women in English history. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for penciled gift inscription, lightly toned throughout, half-toned at half-title, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [3], 16-224 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 356548

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Juliana of Norwich P. Franklin Chambers 14th century woman of letters Catholic Church medieval history English history

Diamond, Hanna

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints

London, Longman, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Women And Men In History. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields, with some of her penciled marginalia. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, some dog-eared pages. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [2], 3-231 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353732

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: W.W.I.I. World War Two Hanna Diamond French women's history women and war military history

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

Hutton, W.A.

Lady Truck Driver

New York, Pageant Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Memoirs of "lady" or women long-haul truck-drivers are exceedingly scarce. Stated First Edition, First Printing. "Lady Truck Driver pulses with the beat of the lusty, adventurous life it describes. It is a fast-moving story that provides absorbing, exciting reading from first page to last." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright orange cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderate edge-wear, a short, closed tear to rear panel, upper, protected by a plastic coat. 169 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 357325

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: long-haul truckers women truck-drivers W.A. Hutton

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

Peterson, Henry, Mrs. (Sarah Webb), ed.

The Lady's Friend, Vol. VII, No. 7, January to December, 1870

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Deacon & Peterson, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Still sturdily bound in Imperial octavo format, marbled paper over boards, leather to tips and spine, with five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to spine. Scuffing to bands, edges, spine head and foot, but still stands proudly on the shelf on its own, with marbled endpapers, and with an impressive array of black-and-white engravings, including at frontis, tissue-guarded, and also hand-colored fold-out illustrations of ladies' fashion circa 1870. 820 pp. and with period advertisements galore. The hand-colored foldouts are remarkably vibrant of color, with a few splits to folds, abraded of edges, some tissue guards torn. Might be missing a final endpaper. 820 pp. The Lady's Friend was an American women's magazine founded and edited by Mrs. Henry Peterson (Sarah Webb Peterson), published in 10 volumes only from 1864 until 1873.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349510

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: The Lady's Friend|Mrs. Henry Peterson|women's magazines|fashion

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

Willard, Charity Cannon

Christine de Pizan, Her Life and Works: A Biography

New York, Persea Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stellar social history of France's first woman of letters, biographer of King Charles V, medieval chronicler. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond very light waffling thereto, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-266 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 349840

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: medieval women|Charity Cannon Willard|Christine de Pizan|French women|women of letters

Yu, Wei-hsin

Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in Social Inequality, a deep exploration in "why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century" (publisher's blurb). A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out.Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv + 215 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: 349544

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: Wei-Hsin Yu|gender divisions of labor|Japan Taiwan