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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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Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

By: Butler, Connie; Schwartz, Alexandra

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York: 2010

Seller ID: 012364

ISBN: 087070771X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Focusing on a diverse range of artists active from the late nineteenth century to the present whose works span the spectrum of mediums and genres in the Museum's collection. Organized chronologically into three sections Early Modernism, Mid-Century and Contemporary. The book comprises both long and short essays emphasizing new research on women artists within these historical time periods.

No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works. Still Gift Quality.
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Drives and Puts: A Book of Golf Stories

By: Camp, Walter and Brooks, Lilian

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page: 1899

Seller ID: 011205

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The collaboration of the "father of American football" and a leading woman golfer, outspoken on the importance of women's physical development and unfettered opportunity.

First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 7.125 inches tall,18 cm; 243 pp. Frontispiece. 14-page publisher's catalogue at the rear.

Ref: Donovan and Murdoch 780.

Light wear, rubbing and bumps to edges and corners; binding slightly shaken; very good or better.
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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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Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950

By: Grossmann, Atina

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New Haven and London, Oxford University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 007945

ISBN: 0195056728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

SIGNED by the Author with a long inscription. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Stain on lower text block edge which does not affect interior.

Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and deionized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi book burnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources-from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores -- the ...
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Athletics and Out-Door Sports for Women

By: Hall, Lucille F., editor

Price: $180.00

Publisher: New York:, 1903;, Macmillan: 1903

Seller ID: 012134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Athletics and Out-Door Sports for Women published by Margaret Fitch. 339 + [2] ad pp. Plate illustrations from photographs. Chapter 8, authored by Jeannette Stein, is on golf.

Original green cloth stamped in white and black, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, supplied slipcase. Some damp staining to cloth; some leaves stuck together, some chips and tears to leaves at fore-edge, damp staining, binding cracked internally.
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Mothers of Psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein

By: Janet Sayers

Price: $21.21

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1991

Seller ID: 009018

ISBN: 0393030415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Minor age-spots on top edge. Unread. Still Gift Quality. Publisher's advance publicity letter laid-in. 319 pages with bibliography and index.-------- The story of that revolution through biographical portraits of four pioneering figures in the early institutions of psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein.
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Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical

By: Janice R. MacKinnon; Stephen R. MacKinnon

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Berkley, University of California Press: 1987

Seller ID: 008388

ISBN: 0520059662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

"A painstakingly researched and truly riveting account of this unique American journalist. . . . In Agnes Smedley, the MacKinnons have found an unusual American woman whose private odyssey was every bit as fascinating as her public one." -- Orville Schell, The Nation.

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Appears unread. Dust Jacket has light handling wear with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo, 435 pages with index, bibliography of primary sources and chapter notes.
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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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A Girl in Ten Thousand

By: L. T. Meade (1844-1914)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Hurst and Company: 1890

Seller ID: 012451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith a prolific writer of girls' stories.

She was primarily known for her books for young people; however, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors. Meade was a feminist and a member of the Pioneer Club.

Original green cloth with spine and front decorations and titles in three colors. The images are bright and rich in color. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal s...
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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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Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls

By: Levine, Stephanie Wellen

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, New York City University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 006832

ISBN: 081475192X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

"In an age that is at times overly concerned with girls' self-destruction, here is a welcome sign of girls' strength and healthy development. Levine teaches an important and seldom taught lesson: we may find resilience where we least expect it. Her unprecedented insight into this hidden culture is an important addition to the growing body of work on girls." -Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality.
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Official Sports Library for Women. Individual Sports: Archery, Riding, Tennis, Golf

By: Margaret Fitch, Editor

Price: $34.95

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barns and Company: 1938

Seller ID: 012505

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

This illustrated book includes rules, techniques, and bibliography for each sport. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Stapled wraps, 4.75 by 6.75 inches; 95 pages with 1 page of publisher's Advert; attached at the rear is a folded tennis rules chart.

No flaws but minimal age-toning. ------ Ref: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Vol 36; 2775
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My Life

By: Meir, Golda

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 1975

Seller ID: 012464

ISBN: 0399116699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Both frank and very revealing of her personality and goals. Her total lack of pretense is especially winning. Meir's practical idealism can be seen in efforts as diverse as the beautification of kibbutzim and her strong advocacy of unemployment benefits.

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. First Edition, First Printing [American] 8vo; 9 inches tall; 480 pages with an index; some photo illustration. Dust Jacket has small loss at the top of the spine.
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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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Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back

By: Müller-Westermann, Iris; Vuong, Lea

Price: $245.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Hatje Cantz: 2015

Seller ID: 012329

ISBN: 377573970X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

The volume is grouped into themes that characterize her oeuvre, including memory, trauma, relationships, sexuality, fear and the difficulties of being an artist and mother at the same time. Personal photographs further document the artist's childhood and family life, with several letters and documents being made available for the first time.

Born in Paris, where she studied with Fernand Léger, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) moved to New York in 1938, where her first solo exhibition was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in 1945. She quickly developed a sculptural vocabulary that drew inven...
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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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