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A Few Unsung Women: Colonial and Pioneer.
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1982 Hard Cover Very Good
Presented by the National Historical Activities Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. 160 pages, illustrations, cloth, very good. From the foreword: "When the United States was readying for its Bicentennial Celebration, in a dedicated effort to serve the Nation and make a real contribution to the country's archives, the National Historical Activities Committee requested all the members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America to search out old diaries, letters and similar materials of their colonial (up to 1830) and/or pioneer ancestresses. The hundreds of essays which were sent in were presented to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. for students' use in researching history. Here in this small volume are a few papers, culled from that number that came in from across our land."
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ABEL, ELIZABETH and, ABEL, EMILY K. editors The Signs reader : women, gender, & scholarship
Chicago University of Chicago Press 1983 0226000753 / 9780226000756 Soft Cover Very Good
297 pages, wrappers, very good. From the publisher: Selected from the first thirty issues of Signs, Journal Of Women In Culture And Society, the thirteen articles in this volume indicate salient trends in feminist scholarship since 1975. Covering a wide variety of disciplines, this collection is representative of that scholarship, which has permanently altered accustomed patterns of thought by challenging basic theoretical frameworks in many academic disciplines. The contributors to this volume are Kelly-Gadol, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Fatima Mernissi, Myra Jehlen, Elaine H. Pagels, Evelyn Fox Keller, Donna Haraway, Adrienne Rich, Diane K. Lewis, Heidi Hartmann, Catharine A.MacKinnon, Judith Herman and Lisa Hirschman, and Helene Cixous.
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ANDERSON, BONNIE S. Joyous greetings. The first international women's movement, 1830-1860.
New York Oxford University Press, 2000 Hard Cover
288 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, fine. Bonnie Anderson has given us a very original and exciting portrait of the first international women's movement. From the women's rights activits of Seneca Falls, New York, to the Vesuviennes of Parisian street battles, she shows us women who knew themselves to be sisters and struggled for the universal emancipation of their sex. Anderson's work will permanently alter how we will see a whole generation of pioneering European and American feminists. (quote on dj from Ellen Carol Dubois, Univ. of California, Los Angeles).
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AVAKIAN, ELIZABETH To deliver me of my dreams.
Millbrae, CA Les Femmes 1975 0890879060 / 9780890879061 First Edition Soft Cover
91 pages, pictorial wraps, very good.1st printing. From the back cover: TO DELIVER ME OF MY DREAMS is a journal. It is of a time that could only be right now. It is the work of a young woman who could only be of this time. Its power lies in the openness of her struggle to become herself and the courage it took to share it with others. There have been antecedents and there wil be other journals to follow but in TO DELIVER ME OF MY DREAMS we have found a voice of clarity that belongs to today.
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BLAIR, KAREN J. The Torchbearers : Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890-1930
Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press, 1994 0253311926 / 9780253311924 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
259 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj: 'An indispensable overview of women's cultural activities in promoting and popularizing a wide variety of cultural enterprises, from music to artists' colonies . . . affording new insights into the contributions of middle class women within the cultural arena.' - Kathleen D. McCarthy, author of Women's Culture.
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BROWN, HELEN GURLEY The late show. A semiwild but practical survival plan for women over 50.
New York William Morrow & Co. 1993 0688100171 / 9780688100179 Hard Cover
384 pages, cloth, dj, very good. 1st printing. From the dj: In 1962 a revolutionary book hit the New York Times best-seller list where it stayed for 26 weeks. That book was Sex and the Single Girl and its author, Helen Gurley Brown, hasn't stopped communicating - intimately - with millions of women ever since and as editor in chief of Cosmopolitan. In The Late Show, Ms. Brown describes in her distinctive voice what it's like to grow old - NOT gracefully but resourcefully and energetically, what you can expect during the process and what you can do to make it rewarding. The book is divided into twelve informative chapters that range from emotional security, marriage, money, sex, beauty and clothes to food, exercise, health doctors, work and the importance of each as one grows older. Ms. Brown shares her own knowledge along with extensive research.
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CHAFE, WILLIAM HENRY The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and Political Roles, 1920-1970
London Oxford University Press, 1972 0195017854 / 9780195017854 Soft Cover Very Good
351 pages, wrappers, some underlining by former owner otherwise very good. Reprint. Cover design by Sigrid Spaeth. 'Combines the rigorous scholarship of the historian with sociological sensitivity and superb writing… The book must be read not only for the information it represents, but as a model of how to combine ideological sophistication with objective writing.' - Rose Laub Coser in Dissent.
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Gluckel [Marvin Lowenthal, translator] The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
New York Schocken Books 1977 0805205721 / 9780805205725 Softcover Very Good
Xviii, [2], 295 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. With a new introduction by Richard Rosen. From the back cover: "Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century. " SR163C ; 295 pages
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GORDON, SUZANNE Prisoners of Mens Dreams: Striking Out for a New Feminine Future.
Boston Little Brown & Co. , 1991 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
324 pages, cloth, dj, very good. From the dj: Twenty-five years after women's liberation propelled women in to the major institutions of American society, Suzanne Gordon sends us this brilliant and unsettling dispatch. It is a vivid account of how much of feminism has lost its way and how the imperatives of the American marketplace have blurred the vision and complicated the lives of millions of women who now work inside and outside the home.
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LERNER, GERDA The creation of patriarchy.
New York Oxford University Press, 1986 0195051858 / 9780195051858 Soft Cover
318 pages, illustrations, pictorial wraps, very good. From the back cover: Winner of the 1986 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association. 'The Creation of Patriarchy may well be the most important work in feminist theory to appear in our generation.'
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LERNER, GERDA The creation of patriarchy.
New York Oxford University Press, 1986 0195051858 / 9780195051858 Soft Cover Very Good
318 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the publisher: Winner of the 1986 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association. 'Written by one of the most brilliant historians of our era, this book dramatically reopens a chapter of women's history that historians had thought was forever closed to them - the origins of the collective dominance of women by men' - Katherine Kish Sklar, University of California, Los Angeles.
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LEVINE, SUZANNE and, LYONS, HARRIET editors The decade of women. A Ms. history of the seventies in words and pictures.
New York G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980 039912490X / 9780399124907 Hardcover Very Good
With Joanne Edgar, Ellen Sweet, Mary Thom. Introduction by Gloria Steinem. 233 pages, well illustrated, cloth, dust jacket little frayed otherwise very good. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. From the dj, 'Just as the sixties was the decade of youth, so the seventies is the decade of women. Women have explored, expanded and changed every aspect of modern life - from business and politics to sports and the arts. These changes are so drmatic that they continue to influence day--to-day life and the future of us all. This survey of the seventies - from the nostalgic to the newsworthy - is lavishly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, the majority of them by women photographers, and many of them printed here for the first time.'
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MARGOLIS, MAXINE L. Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed
Berkeley, University of California Press 1984 0520049950 / 9780520049956 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Good dust jacket
349 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, very good. From the dj: The author 'examines questions about the changing roles of middle-class American women. Her conclusion, guided by the theoretical perspective of cultural materialism, is that "what we have come to think of as inevitable and biologically necessary is in great measure a consequence of our society's particular social and economic system.'
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Mitchell, James Andrew Finding Their Own Voices: Maine Women At the Millennium. Their Stories.
Camden, Maine, Down East Books 2002 0892725877 / 9780892725878 First Edition Softcover Very Good
Xviii, 144 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the back cover: "James Mitchell presents a series of biographical sketches and interviews of more than thirty Maine women who have all carved out meaningful careers for themselves. The women shared their stories and dreams with Mitchell to celebrate their and other women's accomplishments. Although their stories and fields of endeavor -- ranging from commercial fishing (Linda Greenlaw) , to writing (Kate Barnes) , to government service (Chellie Pingree) -- are different, the women all celebrate the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. What they have in common is intelligence, passion, enthusiasm, and a firm belief in their abilities. " SR2001B ; 144 pages
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NODDINGS, NEL Women and Evil
Berkeley, University of California Press 1989 0520065700 / 9780520065703 Soft Cover Very Good
284 pages, wrappers, very good. From the publisher: 'In this engaging book, Nel Noddings examines several theological, philosophical, and psychological associations of women with evil in order to propose a counter-definition of evil from the perspective of women's experience. Women and Evil is a valuable contribution to the analysis of evil and its alleviation.' - Margaret R. Miles, Commonweal.
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