Search Results: Feminism/Women Studies from 100 POCKETS

Sonoma, CA: Zanel Publications, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. History. America West. Biographies of spirited women who more than excelled in areas previously the domain of men only. Illustrated w/archival photos.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light shelf wear & small pushes to front upper/lower spine corners. 32 biographies of outstanding men of vigor, courage and resourcefulness in the annals of Western Canada by John Walter Grant MacEwan, best known as Grant MacEwan (1902 - 2000), farmer, faculty the Universities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Mayor of Calgary and both a Member of the Legislative Assembly and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, who authored Fifty Mighty Men Canada, to which this volume is a supplementary sequel, or, a companion work.

Lukasa, Zambia: Zambia Association for Research & Development, 1985. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. EX-LIB/Uncirculated. Unique, primary historical resource. Text/NEW. Cover/NF; w/library stiff plastic cover over light edge & surface wear. Type-set. 1985 analysis of the socio-economic status of women in Zambia --- that landlocked country, official language English, hemmed in by the 8 states of Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia & Angola. Study sponsored by The Norwegian Agency for Internat'l Development & Economic Commission for Africa, Multinational Programming & Operational Centre (MULPOC). 159 pgs, in 6 chapters: 1, Education & Training Opportunities of Women; 2, Women's Economic Contribution; 3, Women's Status; 4, Access to Factors of Production; 5, Women & Development; and, 6, Miscellaneous (Nutrition, Health, etc.), followed by Conclusions finding Zambian women short access to education & training;… Read More

New York, NY: The Dial Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Red linen boards w/gilt spine letteringNF. DJ/NF; under library mylar. An anthology of personal narratives and reflections of American pioneer women gathered from letters, diaries, journals, and speeches. The selections are arranged under captions of: 1, The Promised Land; 2, The World Turned Upside Down; 3. War of 1812; 4, Westward Ho!; 5, Civil War; 6, Life in the West; and, 7, Snakes in the Garden. Authors' biographical sketches precede each selection. Primary source material for young students of history.

Saint Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Field Museum of Natural History (Photographs). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Soft cover w/trace edge rubs & creasings to spine. Llight brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to text edges. First published 1981; this is the revised edition of 1990. Poet, author Patricia Monaghan (1946 -) is a pioneer of the contemporary women's spirituality movement. In this volume re-tells stories of goddesses and heroines. An encyclopedia of over a thousand goddesses and heroines veiled, and even lost, by passage of time.

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF; price-clipped; light edge & surface rubs, now under mylar. Erasure mark to upper corner of fEP. Biography of Susette La Flesche Tibbles (1854 - 1903), also know as Bright Eyes (Insta Theamba). The Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska was of complex ancestry --- Ponca, Iowa, French and Anglo-American. Daughter of the last head chief of the Omahas, educated in eastern schools, wife of journalist Thomas Tibbles, Susette La Flesche gave up teaching to campaign for justice on behalf of the Poncas when warring broke out on the reservation. She testified before Senate committees, was feted at the White House, and later lectured in England, and fought for Indian citizenship. A courageous activist, Susette La Flesch was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1983, ten… Read More

New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Collectible - Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs & faint creasing to upper back corner. PO name to front cover verso & stamp to fEP. Review of the status of women workers in the United States. Gender discrimination. Comparing women in various occupations, Teresa Amott finds modern women shoulder a heavier economic burden than their male counterparts than they did two decades ago. 5 chapters: 1, Women & Economic Crisis; 2, The Postwar Economy Slows Down; 3. Shortchanged: Restructuring Women's Work; 4, Never Done: The Crisis at Home; and 5, From Poor to Rich, from Women to Men: Restructuring the State. Fine copy.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1982. Revised Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Trace soiling to lower text edge; & lower edge of blank fEP & first title page. First published 1959; this is the Revised Edition 1982. Historical survey covering the woman's rights movement in American from conditions prior to 1800 onwards.

Toronto, Canada: Thomas Allen & Son Ltd, 1976. 1st Paperback Edition, 1st Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Paperback. Text/BRAND NEW, showing a whisper of margin discoloration. Illustrated softcover/NF w/faint creasing to upper/lower front & lower back corners. First published 1933; first volume of the autobiography of Canadian novelist, feminist and social activist Nellie McClung (1873 - 1951). Written with keen sensitivity, the work is marked with zeal and exuberance for life. The choice for the title is clarified at book's end: "Even in that gloomy, threatening morning ... the trains gave me a glorious feeling ... of adventure. We were off, and away! Suddenly the landscape began to brighten ... we looked up, and saw the clouds were parting ... It was clearing in the West! Tomorrow would be fine!

San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Autobiograhy and memoir. A survival story --- a will to overcome a dehibilitating bout with cancer and top it with conquest of a 23,000 foot-high mountain. Story of Laura Evans who so weakened by radiation treatment could barely negotiate 4 blocks, and be able to scale Argentina's Mount Aconcague. A one-step-at-a-time selfhealing pilgrimage, always reminding herself of her husband Roger's exhortation : "Cancer picked the wrong person." Laura's accomplishments and Roger's words benefit all face with misfortune ... and who is ever spared?! Laura Evans founded Expedition Inspiration to support cancer research in 1993.

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Collectible - Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. Portraits of contemporary women artists and social leaders, both urban and rural, from some fourteen Latin American countries.

London, UK: Routledge, 1993. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE, showing trace wear to corner tips. First Edition, First Thus. Interdisciplinary, analytical study of the development of feminist theatres in Britian since 1968. Feminist theatre here defined as "political theatre orientated toward change, produced by women with feminist concerns", and understood to be in dynamic growth and change. 313 pgs. Text, with b/w photos, in 8 chapters: 1, Contemporary Feminist Theatres; 2, Feminist Theatres 1968 - 90; 3, Four Companies; 4, Common Working Methods of Feminist Theatres; 5, Lesbian Theatres & Theoretical Perspectives; 6, Black Feminist Theatres in Cultural Context; 7, New Directions in Feminist Theatres; and 8, British Feminist Theatre in and International Context.

New York, NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus, w/trace creasing to front inner flap of dustjacket. Comparative study of Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) and German novleist Christa Wolf (1929 - 2011) through creating a dialogue between the two authors of two distinct cultures, countries and generations. The former of England between the two World Wars. and the latter of the first two decades of the German Democratic Republic. Both, through the female subjects in their works, voicing protest against dominent masculine cultural institutions. Other voices included are those of leading femine theorists such as Luce Irigaray, Julia Dristeva and Alice Jardine.

Munchen: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1985. Softcover Reprint, 1987 . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/16" Tall. This is a volume in the publisher's series, Biographien. It is a sympathetic study of the German-Jewess poet, writer, and dramatist (1869-1945) who was author of, among many worls, Hebraische Balladen, Arthur Aronymous - Die Geschichte maines Vaters, and Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona. 267 pages, with Inhalt, Vorbemerkung, numerous illustrations, and 4 Anhang: Zeittafel, Abkurzungsverzeichnis, Werkregister, and Personenregister. Covers have a partial crease at front and slight edge wear, otherwise clean and sound; text is clean and strong.

Harwich, MA: New Life Images, 2003. 4th Revised Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/New & Bright. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to all leading edges, faint creasing & small losses to front & back corners, and surface wear. Physical therapy during and after pregnancy. First published 1976; this is the 4th, fully Revised Edition. 284 pgs, w/line drawings, in 10 chapters. A thorough illustrated guide of essential exercises for recovery of abdominal & pelvic muscles, and avoid later back pain, mainttain bladder controll to the rest of one's life.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Carolyn Jones (Author-Photographer). BRAND NEW & Collectible. Biographies of young women in America at the turn of the century. Working in conjunction with Girl Scouts of the USA, documentary photographer Carolyn Jones captures in words and pictures portraits of 85 American girls. Some Girl Scouts, others not, aged 13 to 18 years of age. The girls tell their own stories. A striking volume of leaders to be.

New York, NY: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Red & white bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge & surface wear. Treatise on the esthetic of feminity. Review of historic dynamics of changing cultural values in which "the fear of not being feminine engough", be it in style or spirit, has been employed as a "sledgehammer against the collective and individual aspirations of women." Well researched survey of what 'being femine" has been interpreted by both men and woman in regards to the female body, hair, clothes, voice, skin, movement, emotion, and ambition. Sometimes ludicrous, sometimes sad, but always reflective. Focus is on the modern American scene, though not limited to. The historical helps one not take present fads too seriously; the grief and discomfort helps one celebrate new freedoms; the ludicrous helps one laugh; but above all, one gains strength and… Read More

Glen Echo, MD: Wineberry Press, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Elizabeth Follin-Jones (Illustrator & Contributor). Text/BRAND NEW. Signed by poet Lucia Dunham to title page. Softcover/VG; strong w/light edge wear & water/wine glass ring to upper front. Anthology of poems from ten women : E. Castendyk Briefs, Maxine Combs, Lucia Dunham, Elizabeth Follin-Jones, Barbara Goldber, Elaine Reisler Magarrell, Mariquita MacManus Mullan, Elisavietta Ritchie, Elizabeth Sullam, and, Margaret Weaver. Brought together by the old Writer's Center in Glen Echo, and collaborated to form Wineberry Press. A moving work as memory and time fail is E. Castendyk Brief's poem titled 'Alzheimer's at Bill & Sally's' (pg 11). It reads: "Who was the nice young lady in my bed?"/Bill whispers to me at the breakfast table/ "Probably Sal," I breathe back, "your wife."/Relieved, Bill laughs --- his old good laugh,… Read More

Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/faint creasing to pg 3 and miniscle, faint spot to lower text edge. Review of the medical, dietary and hormonal factors that drive fat up. Aside from social price, women do tend to accumulate fat naturally --- a guide to manage a challenge in face of corporate dominated standards of "beauty" for women. Forgive the insertion: In classical fine arts, beauty of T'ang Dynasty China favored the plump as reflected in the Japanese kimono which emphasized then alluring, drammatically exposed, smooth and full nape of the neck versus boney cartiliages of today. Nevertheless, if slimness is important, this is an informative and practical guide pertinent to today. 151 pgs in 5 lucid chapters: 1, Women Are Different; 3, Begone, Fat!; 3. How to Track Your Progress; 5, Other Aspects of Physiology; and 6. Motivation.

New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1995. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW copy. Softcover/Fine. Interviews with single women throughout the United States --- unmarried at forty, never married nor divorced, and, with or without children. Most interviewed did not consciously plan on being single. Indeed, they had accepted the "marriage and mother-hood" lot culture dictated, but Prince Charming either failed to appear and/or they found the demands of marriage unattractive. Note the term "spinster" never evoked similar imagery as its counterpart, "bachelor"; "amazons" is far more appealing. Given a modern landscape littered with connubial fatalities, meanings associated with age-old words ought to be re-examined. "Flying Solo" can be a far more complete & satisfying way of life than imagined. Will a rise in bachelorhood follow and more men fly solo? 309 pgs, 20 chapters in 6 sections: 1, Taking Off: The Dilemma of… Read More