Search Results: Women's Studies from First Landing Books & Art

Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1988. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 299pp. with index, b&w photos. Very Good condition..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover 8vo in very good condition. 312 pages. "Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis of power in heterosexual relationships, combining an eye-opening legal history of sexual regulation with thought-provoking predictions of what the future might bring.".

U.S.A.: University of Virginia Press, 1991. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 8vo. Like new. University of Virginia Press 1991. Edited with an introduction by Barbara Timm Gates. 369 pp. including index. Previous owner's name plate on inside front board..

New York: Basic Books, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. 416pp including notes, bibliography and Index. For a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish did the unprecedented --she published her writing. Her extraordinary life unfolded during the English Civil Wars, when she was exiled to Paris and Antwerp as a Royalist seeking refuge from Cromwell's England, and later as mistress of her husband's estate in Newcastle after the restoration of the monarchy. In exile, she began to write and publish her poetry and essays, influenced by a Royalist cultural world that included Hobbes and Descartes. Despite the scandal her writing life caused, she eventually brought out thirteen books, ranging from Poems and Fancies, the first book of poetry published by a woman under her own name, to Blazing World, the first science fiction by a woman.A lively biography and a window on the… Read More

United States of America: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. the story of viscountess beaconsfield..

United States of America: Knopf, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. the remarkable story of the woman who fought in the american revolution as robert shurtliff and got away with it..

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 135 pages. some pencil underlinings. The plot dramatizes the passion of a young English boarding student for one of her French teachers, Mlle Julie, whose character owes much to Marie Souvestre. the only book written by bussy. dedicated to virginia woolf..

Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Incorporated, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 20 million men and women in this country play softball. On the surface, The SoftballGame is about men and their need for battles. Aggression is as coded in our DNA as is ourneed to reproduce. It is a fun game with laughs recalled from years playing softball. The old storytelleris reluctant to do battle. He tells the confrontation in the first person singular, episode byepisode. The game is a tribal struggle played by redneck, bad guys and middle class,semi-affluent, anti-heroes. Coming to the rescue is Beth - - a woman! Beth reduces the male struggle to a farce. The driving timbre is the storytellersexperiences with three females whose lives are indirectly, obliquely, and directly affectedby his wars at softball. The Softball Game is about these women. Phaedra literally hands the young warrior his first sexual experience. Entering the man world still a child, he meets… Read More

United States of America: Vantage Press, Inc., 1952. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 152 pages. some pencil underlinings. the ideas which this book will attempt to dissociate are those twins "masculinism" and "political leadership.".

Prescott, AZ: Hohm Pr, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. By Author. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Regina Sara Ryan, a former Catholic nun, began her search for the feminine face of God in 1983; this book is the result of that search. The stories of her own journey are intersected by those of other women of spirit, including Sufi master Irina Tweedie, and humanitarian Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo, hard cover, graphs/charts, new copyt, 155pp. w/index, the structure of Women's employement in Britain Today, Cross-National comparisons, Women's employement and te family, Women as employees.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1997. Book. New. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New copy.429pp. including index The book locates women's role in the family as a contributory factor to their continued disadvantage within the paid workforce. Yet, in signalling the way forward, the author rejects the notion that the answer is to simply to slot more women into existing structures. Instead of expecting women to conform to systems which exclude and devalue caring responsibilities, she argues, real change will only occur if paid work is restructured so that both men and women can be active participants in family life as well as in the paid workforce. This book does not, however, offer single dimensional solutions.