DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS —Denman, Lord (Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman) Reasons for Legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. London: Hatchard and Son, 1852. [Ninth Thousand].RESEARCH SUMMARY This archive provides a comprehensive primary-source record of the judicial push for marriage reform. Authored by the former Lord Chief Justice of England, this pamphlet.....

Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1931. Limited Edition. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Morley Callaghan was a vital link between the Toronto literary scene and the avant-garde world of 1930s Montparnasse. No Man's Meat was born from the same creative ferment that produced Hemingway’s A Farewell to.....

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. This landmark study in medieval social history examines aristocratic and rural marital practices.Duby explores how social class, inheritance, and gender shaped marriage as both a personal relationship and a legal, economic institution. Meticulously researched using archival records and literary sources, this.....

Berkeley, California: T: The Modern Utopian, Winter, 1969–1970. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Published in Berkeley during the high-water mark of the American counterculture, The Modern Utopian functioned as both a communications network and documentary record for emerging communal groups. The issue's coverage of Twin Oaks, Harrad West, and related projects provides contemporary.....

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994. Soft cover. 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.....

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Illustrated by Chet Jezierski. This significant work of oral history and social commentary, offers a deeply personal and empathetic look at the lives of marginalized women in America.The book presents first-person narratives of women facing profound hardships, giving them a platform to share.....

London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Christopher Isherwood remains a titan of 20th-century prose, best known for 'Goodbye to Berlin'. 'Lions and Shadows' serves as the intellectual blueprint for his later masterpieces, offering a clear-eyed account of the 'Auden Generation' and their.....

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Polly Aller, a single parent, and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions.

New York: Routledge, 1995. A critical examination of the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of British imperialism. McClintock argues that these categories were not merely social constructs but were actively mobilized to sustain and legitimize colonial domination.The book introduces the concept of the "empire of domesticity,".....

New York: Ecco Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Charismatic, brilliant, and beautiful, the American writer Natalie Clifford Barney, who lived in Paris for most of her long life, is best known for three things: her Left Bank literary salon, often acknowledged as.....

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Williamson examines the cultural and historical contexts in which Sappho's poetry was produced and received, shedding light on the complexities of female authorship in ancient Greece, offering a compelling feminist analysis of Sappho's poetry, exploring how her works have been interpreted and reinterpreted through the.....