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The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a Record of a Growing World Consciousness

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1930

Seller ID: 2303563

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. No jacket. Minor general wear. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 413 pp. An important title by the well-known advocate of women's suffrage and world peace, published the year before she became the first female Nobel Peace Prize winner. Jane Addams' famous autobiographical work, only four of the twelve chapters of The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House deal with matters directly related to Hull-House itself, the rest, with national and especially international issues. But this second volume provides the essential story of the continued developm...
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Elusive Equity, Empathy, and Empowerment: One Woman's Journey through the Challenges of Gender Bias in the Early Twenty-First Century [21st]

By: Angel, Pandora B.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: IN, Archway: 2018

Seller ID: 2298732

ISBN: 1480868264

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 129 pp. Dr. Pandora B. Angel was a practicing physician for thirty years. She spent twenty-three of those years as an emergency physician at a university medical center and an affiliated hospital. In Elusive Equity, Empathy, and Empowerment, she shares the challenges she faced as a female emergency physician in what is still perceived as a male profession. Addressing the gender bias and inequality she experienced while striving for and achieving a career in medicine, this memoir addresses workforce power and control, double standards, gender bias, disc...
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The Women's West

By: Armitage, Susan; Jameson, Elizabeth

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oklahoma, The University of Oklahoma Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2295001

ISBN: 0806120673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Ink gift note on half-title page. 1988 Trade Paperback. xi, 323 pp. The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent, reluctant, and out of place. Men won the West. Women, against their better judgement, followed them to this newly discovered place and tried to re-create the amenities of the...
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Anonymous was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art -- and the Women Who Made It

By: Bank, Mirra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martins' Griffin: 1995

Seller ID: 2287363

ISBN: 0312134304

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. An excellent copy. 1995 Soft Cover. 128 pp. In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by ordinary women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.
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Genesee Valley Women: 1743-1985

By: Beale, Irene A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Geneseo, Chestnut Hill Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2286760

ISBN: 0960813225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription on title page. Owner bookplate inside front wrapper. 1984 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 220 pp. Includes accounts of Mary Jemison, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, the Fox Sisters, and many others. Most of the more than forty women whose stories appear here have made no more than footnotes in traditional history books, but nearly all lived lives of quiet greatness. Some through their courageous tenacity were enablers and, while not themselves having power, empowered others. Some struggled for self-realization and overcame bar...
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Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators

By: Bell, Elizabeth S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Pasadena, Trilogy Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2305932

ISBN: 0962387940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Fore edge lightly smudged. 1994 Trade Paperback. Depicts the lives of Lady Heath, Lady Bailey, Violette De Sibour, Mary Bruce, Pauline Gower, Dorothy Spicer, Amy Johnson, Jean Batten, Amelia Earhart, Anne Lindbergh, and Louise Thaden.
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Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

By: Bennett, Judith M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2303225

ISBN: 0195126505

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. An excellent copy. 1996 Trade Paperback. xiv, 260 pp. Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy...
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The Female World: A Brilliant Exploration of a Previously Uncharted Region--the Special World of Women

By: Bernard, Jessie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2202132

ISBN: 0029030005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Signed by author and inscribed: For Elizabeth O'Hera with best regards, Jessie Bernard 10/19/81. Edges very lightly rubbed. Crease to front and rear wrapper of jacket and jacket spine. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 614 pp. A sociological look at the sphere of women examines its patterns and trends, compares it with the world of men, and relates both concepts to politics and economics.
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Miss America: Pen and Camera Sketches of the American Girl

By: Black, Alexander

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1898

Seller ID: 2294567

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Large stain along bottom edge, pencil gift note on front free endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. 208 pp. Brown boards. Top page ridge gilt. With designs and photographic illustrations by the author. CONTENTS: The American Type; The Twig; A Century's Run; Stitches and Links; What Is Going On In Society?; Lace and Destiny; Chance and Choice; The New Old Maid; And So They Were Married.
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Nerves: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Plainfield, Vermont, Daughters, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 2201035

ISBN: 0913780049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge lightly foxed. 1973 Trade Paperback. 169 pp. Author's first book. Diane Hamilton comes of age in a world peopled by troubled women. Not that these are weak women, but they are women who have tried to face life down and failed. Nerves is a novel of generations of women--mother, daughter, aunt, friend of the family. Diane is the strength we all have in adolescence and the fear we felt of growing up female and defeated. It is rare to find a book that explores the tension this creates between mother and daughter.-...
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Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance

By: Braxton, Joanne M.; Mclaughlin, Andree Nicola

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 1891527

ISBN: 0813514428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge. 1990 Trade Paperback. 470 pp. Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature. --New York Times Book Review The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some 20 enjoyable, erudite essays by prominent scholars, critics, and activists. --Publishers Weekly This book is the first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the literary and multi-cultural traditions of Black American women in many genres over a broad span of time. The essays explore c...
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Plath's Incarnations: Woman and The Creative Process

By: Bundtzen, Lynda K.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2294675

ISBN: 0472080881

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. 1988 Trade Paperback. x, [2], 284 pp. Traces Plath's development as a woman artist, linking her life with her work. CONTENTS: 1. Lady Lazarus and Divine Activity; 2. Perfection is Terrible; 3. The Bell Jar: The Past as Allegory; 4. Plath's Imaginative World: Caught in the Net of Obscure Design; 5. The Female Body of Imagination; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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The Roosevelt Women

By: Caroli, Betty Boyd

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1998

Seller ID: 2305139

ISBN: 0465071333

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. Minor ink marginalia, papers laid in. 1998 Hard Cover. xv, 511 pp. The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women , Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history.She examines the Roosevelt wom...
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Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism Series)

By: Chmielewski, Wendy E.; Kern, Louis J.; Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2303227

ISBN: 0815625693

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine lightly toned, top page ridge lightly foxed. 1993 Trade Paperback. xix, 275 pp. 'Most people are probably unaware that communitarian lifestyles existed in this country long before the attention they received in the 1960s. In fact, this book looks at women in communitarian and spiritual societies as far back as the 1700s. This is a multi-faceted study of a number of different types of social experiments and women's experiences in them. Some of these communities, considered radical for their time, like The Northampton Association of Education and Industry, housed the genesis of egalitarian...
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Observations on the Diseases Incident to Pregnancy and Childbed. (Dunglison's American Medical Library.) [with] A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth.

By: Churchill, Fleetwood; Cope, Thomas P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Adam Waldie: 1840

Seller ID: 2026808

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Former copy of Genesee County Memorial Library - bookplate on front endpaper, boards rubbed, endpapers heavily foxed, a few pages in text foxed. 1840 Full-Leather. iv, 290; 20 pp. 8vo. Full calf, black morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. A follow-up to Churchill's earlier work On the Diseases of Females. Includes a short appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor.
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Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope (The First Edition Society)

By: Coles, Robert & Jane Hallowell; Horner, Matina S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2307030

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. 1978 Full-Leather. 296, [1] pp. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Chet Jezierski, foreword by Matina S. Horner (President of Radcliffe College). Stunning, real-life portrayals of ten diverse women--an Appalachian housewife, a dance hall girl, a bank teller, a Pueblo Indian photographer, a civil rights activist, and others.
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Women of the Shadows

By: Cornelisen, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1976

Seller ID: 2159306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Personal copy of Abraham A. Rothberg with his blind stamp on the title page. Rothberg was a Jewish author whose books reimagined traditional Jewish stories and legends, and touched on themes relevant to the diaspora. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Very Good. 1976 Hard Cover. 228 pp. 8vo. A study of the lives of several women in Naples, Italy, with photographs by the author.
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Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era

By: De Pauw, Linda Grant

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1975

Seller ID: 2279083

ISBN: 0395218969

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned, a few very minor tears along top edge of front jacket panel. 1975 Hard Cover. xi, 228 pp. Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the Revolutionary period.
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Women at Work

By: Dublin, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Columbia University: 1981

Seller ID: 2204930

ISBN: 0231041675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Light edge wear. 1981 Trade Paperback. In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community awareness of these women from Lowell and relates it to labor protest movements of the 1830s and '40s.
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Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Engel, Barbara Alpern

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2289561

ISBN: 0521442362

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Minimal ink marks in text. Review letter and typed comment sheet laid in. This copy belonged to Professor Brenda Meehan of the University of Rochester, who specialized in Russian studies. 1994 Hard Cover. This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I. The author uses case studies to explore the effects of urbanization and industrialization...
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Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women (Gender, Culture, Theory 3) (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 215)

By: Exum, J. Cheryl

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Sheffield Academic Press: 1996

Seller ID: 1893368

ISBN: 185075778X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1996 Trade Paperback. 260 pp. 'This provocative collection of essays begins where Exum's earlier literary-feminist study, Fragmented Women, left off: with the questioning of the androcentric bias of the biblical text and with the aim of subverting its patriarchal perspective. It moves on to stake out new territory for feminist biblical criticism by considering what happens to biblical women in popular culture; in art and in film and by foregrounding questions about the ways gender interests affect interpretation and about the roles and responsibilities of commentators and ...
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A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community

By: Fishman, Sylvia Barack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2200974

ISBN: 0029103428

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faintly toned. Jacket spine edges lightly bumped, jacket lightly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. xii, 308 pp. Drawing on interviews with Jewish women from age 18 to 80, across the United States, as well on new demographic data, scholarship, literature and media, A Breath of Life explores contemporary options for Jewish women striving to combine community, family and individual needs. Fishman demonstrates the ways feminism has transformed both their secular andspiritual lives. Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunitie...
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The Warrior Queens

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1989

Seller ID: 2285916

ISBN: 0394549392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear along top edge of jacket rear panel. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 383 pp. From Britain's Queen Boadicea to Elizabeth I, from Catherine the Great to the twentieth-century triumvirate of Meir, Gandhi and Thatcher - the paradox, the politics, the legend and the lives of the sovereign women who have led their nations in war.
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The Women of Mormonism; or The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims Themselves

By: Froiseth, Jennie Andersen; Willard, Frances E.; Bacon, Leonard; Van Zile, P.T.; et al

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Detroit, C.G.G. Paine: 1887

Seller ID: 2208474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Boards heavily stained, binding cocked, one plate loose, light moisture stain on fore-edge margin of just a few pages. Related article laid in. A good candidate for rebinding. 1887 Hard Cover. xviii, 416 pp. An indictment ofMormonismby various individuals. Includes general historical information about Mormons andMormonism, critiques of polygamy, discussions of legal issues, and a brief account ofMormonismas it relates towomen's suffrage.Originally published in 1882.
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Diagnosis of Ovarian Cysts

By: Garrigues, Henry Jacques

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., William Wood & Company: 1882

Seller ID: 2187658

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy, usual marks. Boards a bit rubbed. 1882 Hard Cover. iv, 112 pp. A medical treatise on ovarian cysts covering various perspectives on treatment and prevention.
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The Intelligence of Woman

By: George, W.L.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1916

Seller ID: 2276002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Faint stain on top page ridge. 1916 Hard Cover. v, 244 pp. CONTENTS: The Intelligence of Woman; Feminist Intentions; Uniforms for Women; Woman and the Paint Pot; The Downfall of the Home; The Break-Up of the Family; Some Notes on Marriage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Walter Lionel George (20 March 1882, Paris, France 30 January 1926) was an English writer, chiefly known for his popular fiction, which included feminist, pacifist, and pro-labour themes.
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MotherSongs: Poems for, by, and about Mothers

By: Gilbert, Sandra M.; Gubar, Susan; O'Hehir, Diana

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 1995

Seller ID: 2287494

ISBN: 0393040399

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes publisher slipcase. No jacket. An excellent copy in an excellent slipcase. 1995 Hard Cover. 380 pp. Includes publisher slipcase. A unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, MotherSongs brings together for the first time a range of classic and contemporary poems from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. The editors have included traditional ballads about maternity and courtly elegies for or by mothers as well as landmark nineteenth-century tributes to mothers and early twentieth-century meditations on motherhood. MotherSongs o...
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Marie Curie: A Life

By: Giroud, Francoise; Davis, Lydia

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Holmes & Meier: 1986

Seller ID: 2206144

ISBN: 0841909776

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. Near Fine. 1986 Hard Cover. 291 pp. Perhaps the most illustrious women of her era, Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prize-winning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery with husband Pierre of polonium and radium. Less familiar is the complex character of this renowned woman. While grounding her work in a historical context, the author provides a fresh human perspective on the life of this famous yet enigmatic precursor of today's atomic scientists.
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The Wheel of Life

By: Glasgow, Ellen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1906

Seller ID: 2201608

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, ink name on front endpaper. 1906 Hard Cover. 474 pp. A novel by the American suffragette known for her portrayals of the changing world of the South. Born, raised and educated in Richmond, Virginia, novelist Ellen Glasgow began to receive literary acclaim for her realistic portraits of life in the region. However, with the novel The Wheel of Life, Glasgow shifts the scene to bustling New York City, where poet Laura Wilde attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of romance.
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The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard: A Memorial Volume, with Character Sketches and Memorial Tributes by the General Officers of the World's and the National W.C.T.U., English Leaders, Dr. Edward Everette Hale, Etc.

By: Gordon, Anna A.; Somerset, Lady Henry (Introduction); et al

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, Woman's Temperance Publishing Association: 1898

Seller ID: 2306294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards soiled, hinges starting. 1898 Hard Cover. 416 pp. A memorial biography of an important member of the women's suffrage movement. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. In 1871 she became president of Evanston College for Ladies, which merged with Northwestern University in 1873, at which time she became the first Dean of Women of the Womens College. However that position was to be short-lived due to her resignation in 1874 after confrontations with the University President, Charles ...
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