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Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes.

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 010251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A limited Edition of Undetermined Size. Illustrated with photographs of Hull House and the immigrant experience. ------ Gift Quality; No flaws or blemishes to this unopened book. ------ In her autobiography Twenty Years at Hull-House, Addams recounts her domestic activism as the founder of the second and most innovative settlement house in the U.S. Originally conceived in 1889 as a space where women of privilege could share their knowledge in humanistic fields such as art, literature, and music with the less fortunate, Hull House rapidly transformed into a community support system where workin...
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Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 010576

ISBN: 0385487223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. ------- An intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. ------- The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare photographs and handwritten manuscripts and letters
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A Lioness from Judea Roars: A Lioness from Judea Cries

By: Ehrlich, J

Price: $14.95

Publisher: U.S.A., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: 2010

Seller ID: 004418

ISBN: 1449978681

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Unused, No flaws or blemishes. --- In The Lioness from Judea Roars, the author attempts to give a window into the dynamics of domestic violence so that those who are lucky enough to have never experienced domestic violence and parental alienation can gain insight into it. In doing so, Ehrlich hopes the understanding would help them be more compassionate and better able to give positive support to victims.
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Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology

By: Fulkerson, Mary McClintock

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Minneapolis, Fortress Press: 1994

Seller ID: 010259

ISBN: 0800627474

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. ------- The author shows the many ways in which women's scriptural "performances" are liberating. Shifting decisively from "women's experience" to discursive practices, she offers three sample readings of "emancipatory discourses" from diverse social locations that better display the variety of ways in which women are oppressed and resistant.
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Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

By: Gordon, Meryl

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2008

Seller ID: 010384

ISBN: 0618893733

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by the author with an inscription on the title page. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. 9.5 inches tall; 8vo; 320 pages with bibliography and photographic illustrations. -------- Meryl Gordon's riveting account of the legendary life and sad final days of Brooke Astor is an American epic. It's all here- high society, big money, blue blood, family feuds and criminal charges. [Tom Brokaw]
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Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender

By: Kvam, Kristen E ; Schearing, Linda S. ; Ziegler, Valarie H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indiana, Indiana University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 010258

ISBN: 0253212715

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. --------- Wonderful! A marvelous introduction to the ways in which the three major Western religious traditions are both like, and unlike one another." ?Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University
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An Army Doctor's Wife on the Frontier. Letters From Alaska and the Far West 1874 - 1878

By: Laufe, Abe - Editor [Letters of Emily FitzGerald]

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Pittsburg, PA, University of Pittsbury Press: 1962

Seller ID: 009535

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square, Text clean, Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 23.5cm. ; 8.25 inches tall; 232 pages. Map endpages and frontispiece. ------- Letters of Emily Fitzgerald. One of the first white-women to live in Alaska less than a decade after the purchase from Russia, suffered desolation during the Arctic winters. Then the FitzGerlads were transferred to FortLapawai in present-day Idaho, where they faced the ordeal of Indian uprisings.
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Now Solo

By: Murray, Jennifer

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited: 2002

Seller ID: 002241

ISBN: 1840185066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality, First Edition; First Printing; Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve. Illustrated with photos. ------ In 1998, Jennifer Murray - 60-year-old businesswoman, artist, housewife and mother of three - became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a record-breaking solo flight. Escorted all the while by a friend in a microlight craft, she single-handedly chartered the helicopter across the globe. This book documents Jennifer's epic journey.
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Eva Peron

By: Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne ; Fields, Shawn

Price: $12.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: 1996

Seller ID: 010379

ISBN: 0312145993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 325 pages with index. Illustrated. First Edition,Second Printing.------- An impressionistic portrait of a woman revered and reviled in Argentina, just in time for the scheduled December release of the Madonna film Evita. Eva Peron became an icon during her 1945-52 reign as wife of dictator Juan Peron, but one perceived in radically different ways: To some she symbolized all that is good about Argentina; to others, all that is evil. [Kirkus]
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Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women

By: Power, Kim

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Continuum Intl Pub Group: 1996

Seller ID: 010263

ISBN: 0826409342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. ------- Power employs insights drawn from psychology, anthropology and feminist theory, as well as theology, to put Augustine in a new and revealing setting.
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Women Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American Theater of the 1980s (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

By: Salas, Teresa Cajiao

Price: $19.95

Publisher: U.S.A., State University of New York Press: 1997

Seller ID: 004131

ISBN: 0791432068

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No flaws or blemishes but minimal retail shelf handling. Unused; Unread. ----- This first anthology in English dedicated exclusively to Spanish-American women playwrights includes eight plays by award-winning authors who have received national and international acclaim. ----- While these playwrights articulate concerns similar to those of their male counterparts-social injustice, the question of identity, the role of art, the power of writing-their feminist perspectives offer a fresh view of Spanish America by challenging traditional male representations of women. While the plays humorously ...
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Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

By: Stone, Pamela

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, University of California Press: 2007

Seller ID: 006945

ISBN: 0520244354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. --- Stone outlines concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women and men to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and careers.
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Peggy Guggenheim : a Ccelebration

By: Vail, Karole P. B.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Guggenheim Museum : Hardcover edition distributed by H.N. Abrams: 1998

Seller ID: 008859

ISBN: 0892072067

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes; Unused but for a gift inscription on the half-title page. 4to., 151pp. Illustrated in color and historical b/w photographs. ----- Peggy Guggenheim was among the most intriguing cultural figures of her day?as intriguing as the vast collection of modern art she amassed over her lifetime. Her granddaughter pays her a fitting tribute in this lavishly illustrated volume with photos of family and friends, stunning reproductions of artworks (by Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and others), and facsimiles from her famous guest books (including entries from such...
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