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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: 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: 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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Women of the Klondike

By: Backhouse, Frances; Berton, Pierre

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Whitecap Books: 1997

Seller ID: 2284432

ISBN: 1551103753

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Fifth printing. Minor general wear. 1997 Trade Paperback. xi, 212 pp. Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
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In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding

By: Baker, Deborah

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grove Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2203727

ISBN: 0802113648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Spine slightly cocked, page ridges foxed. Jacket creased. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 478 pp. In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding tackled Freud, feminism, communism, language and belief, sexuality, and the coming of age of the American dream. Her range of associations includes writers such as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Now comes a brilliantly original biography of her life. 16 pages of photographs.
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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: 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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Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century

By: Bauder, Emma Pow

Price: $15.00

Publisher: American Bible House: 1895

Seller ID: 2303243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Minor spot on spine, boards lightly soiled. 1895 Hard Cover. 363 pp. Blue boards. Illustrated. A rather sprawling and disjointed social novel, set in San Francisco, and dealing with temperance and labor unrest: God led the children of Israel out of bondage into the light of security and peace, and so will He lead on the temperance reform and settle the Labor question. The plot includes a municipal railway strike as well as much on working women.
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Genesee Valley Women: 1743-1985

By: Beale, Irene A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Genesee Valley Women: 1743-1985

By: Beale, Irene A.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chestnut Hill Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2291954

ISBN: 0960813225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers faintly rubbed. 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 barriers independently. In a sense, nearly all were pioneers.
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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: 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: 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: 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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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

By: Blanton, DeAnne; Cook, Lauren M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Civil War Library: 2003

Seller ID: 2266415

ISBN: 1400033152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Faint smudge on front wrapper, spine lightly creased and lightly rubbed. 2003 Trade Paperback. xiii, 277 pp. “Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than one soldier astonished “his” comrades-in-arms by giving birth in camp. This lively and authoritative book opens a hitherto neglected chapter of Civil War history, tell...
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Nerves: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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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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 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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Women of the Shadows

By: Cornelisen, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston: 1976

Seller ID: 2159306

ISBN: 0316157457

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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She Rode with the Generals: The True and Incredible Story of Sarah Emma Seelye, Alias Franklin Thompson

By: Dannett, Sylvia G.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1960

Seller ID: 2288925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription, For Helen Seasonwein (?), whom I love and admire--Sylvia Dannett October 7, 1970. No jacket. Ink note on front endpaper. 1960 Hard Cover. 326 pp. Dust jacket notes: Sarah Emma Edmonds rode with the generals of the Civil War but her regiment thought she was a man and called her Franklin Thompson. In 1897 Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye was mustered into the George B. McClellan Post, No. 9, and thus became the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Hers is an incredible story but after years of research Sylvia G. L. Dannett has verified the truth of mos...
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Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era

By: De Pauw, Linda Grant

Price: $8.00

Publisher: 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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The Abortionist: By Dr. X. as Told to Lucy Freeman

By: Dr. X; Freeman, Lucy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1962

Seller ID: 2304106

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Circular stain on front jacket panel, front jacket flap price clipped, jacket edges rubbed. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1962 Hard Cover. 220 pp. This account, which will probably be read for very different reasons, is intended not only as a defense of Dr. X and the humane intentions of what is a criminal practice, but also as a protest against the laws which prohibit the termination of a pregnancy, even in situations which may jeopardize a woman's life, morally, psychologically or physically. Morris Ernst, in his introduction, joins Dr. X in defending the doctor and the legality of abor...
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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 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: 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 and spiritual lives. Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunit...
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The Warrior Queens

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: 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: 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 of Mormonism by various individuals. Includes general historical information about Mormons and Mormonism, critiques of polygamy, discussions of legal issues, and a brief account of Mormonism as it relates to women's suffrage. Originally published in 1882.
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The Intelligence of Woman

By: George, W.L.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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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Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse

By: Greer, Germaine; Hastings, Susan; Medoff, Jeslyn; Sansone, Melinda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Noonday Press/Farrar Straus Giroux: 1989

Seller ID: 2202549

ISBN: 0374521646

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Half-title page corner clipped. 1989 Trade Paperback. xvii, 477 pp. Kissing The Rod is a magnificent piece of scholarship that contains the work of some forty-five women poets of the seventeenth century.
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