Search Results: Women's Studies & Men's Studies from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: Ballantine by arr. w/ St. Martin's Press., 1988. First edition. 1st Ballantine printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Spine creasing with slight concaveness to thick spine. Tight, unmarked inside. Light wear.. 1 Large trade paperback, 6x9.25in. 575 p. Audience: General/trade. Biography of an American woman of 18th century Boston, Abigail Smith Adams (1844-1818). Wed to John Adams, theirs was a partnership apart from the stereotypes of marriage over the centuries as history has presented. Researcher-author Phyllis Lee Levin finds wit and intelligence and influence in Abigail's letters and journals, written as she and John joined with other bright, determined minds among revolutionaries to forge a new nation from a diverse, colonized peoples.

Englewood Cliffs NJ.: Prentice-Hall., 1967. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Jacket has tears, surface stress, random soiling, front price sticker scar. Book volume has light top soiling, clean pages save for occasional underlining, checkmarks.. Newell, Peter (Full-page Illustrations by). 1 Purple and Red cloth over boards. 189 p. 24 cm. Artwork in Pen&Ink and grayscale. Described as "a funny and wild journey into 20th Century American Womanland". The bigger Alice of this adaptation has 7 "Drink Me" defined bottles to Lewis Carroll's one for his original Alice in Wonderland. Truth in humor is offered up here.

New York.: Paragon House., 1992. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket.. 1 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Deborah Sampson from rural Massachusetts, a farm girl and school teacher, craved adventure. Dressed as a man, she enlisted twice in the army (the first time she visited a tavern and failed to report), successfully as Robert Shurtliff. She saw front line action, removed a musket ball from her thigh, was hospitalized with fever, taken sick on a geological survey, and shipwrecked on the Hudson River. Robert Shurtliff was honorably discharged, and Deborah Sampson became the first woman in US History to receive a soldier's pension.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First edition. Revised and Updated. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 356 p. Cover: "From a Hollywood Movie" (workers at sewing machines); Back cover, woman sweeping snow off steps. B&W photos, archival prints. Review press release inside. This work first appeared in 1976, helping to transform labor history while serving as a resource in women's studies. In this revised edition, more than half the entries are studies since, widening the anthology's dimensions. The new selections show the historical origins of issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work", underground economy, home-based, shift work. Expanded racial and ethnic backgrounds also.

New York: Bishop Books, 1994. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Light lower spine bump.. 0 264 p. 2-page stapled Press Release enclosed. Review copy, unmarked as such. Women's Studies: Not a book about taming or re-shaping a bad guy. When men change, they have to do it by themselves. They are acts of nature.

St. Martin's Press, 1990. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 Glued binding. 199 p. Audience: General/trade.

Ballantine Books, 1986. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. G+. Very Good clean spine. Minor soiling, corner crease.. 0 Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. 640pgs; endnotes; index. Frontispiece in grayscale: Cliche Musees Nationaux: Louvre. Author of 'The Women's Room'.

Minneapolis MN: Twofold Publications, 2004. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 301 p. Diagrams. Chapter Notes. Resources. Index. Acknowledgments. Step-by-step guide toward living partners dealing with conflict, aligning individual values and priorities, and creating deeper, longer lasting connections to each other.

Los Angeles CA.: Holloway House Publishing Company., 1975. Mass-market paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Cover wear. Prior owner name across top page block. Age-toning.. Smith, Bob (Front cover art by).. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 218 p. Audience: General/trade. A life story involving lesbianism, drugs, and racism, recalled by a black female psychiatrist who can help her patients more than herself. Women's Studies.

Avon Books, 1997. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 366 p. B&W pictorial cover; yellow lower subtitle box. Includes list of many writers lost to AIDS. From teh 1940s through the 1990s, 29 stories. Contributor bios. Select Bibliography.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. DJ chipped in several places, slightly soiled; book better than good, some light pencil marks on endpapers.. Rose, Carl;. 1 xiii; 80 p. frontispiece, Includes Illustrations; light brown cloth-covered boards with silver text. Among the first generation of the "soccer Moms" in the pre-war 1930s, the author was frustrated by cracks about "women drivers" so she set down the weekly life of a family transporter and the responsibilities inherent to the job; with the help of cartoonist Carl Rose, depicting the challenges in a changing world. A humorous look at family dynamics of the 1930s in America.

Pantheon Books, 1980. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front spine edge has slight wear.. Hall, Joan (Cover collage by).. 0 208 p. Gilman (1860-1935) authored "Women and Economics" plus works in history, anthropology, ethics, fiction, satire, and social commentary. Herein, 18 works are presented, including the utopian "Herland".

Random House Trade, 1972. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Inside lower rear DJ, moisture stain: half-inch by 2.5 in. Minor edgewear, Inscribed as gift "To Barry...".. 0 260 p. Sturdy cream fabric over boards, illlustrated DJ cover. Contents: Man-hating, Lesbianism, Love. "Unreserved honesty (about) the realities of one life...a sounding board and toouchstone for many, " DJ notes.

New York.: Atlantic Monthly Press., 1989. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Back cover jacket soiling.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 241 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. Artists / anthropology / women's studies. Five artists engaged in the act of creation: the composition of our lives, using the framework of comparative biography. Larger themes: relationship, commitment, gender. Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, and author and-co-author of other works.

Bantam Books, 1992. Illustrated.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

Ann Arbor MI.: University of Michigan Press., 1990. 6th printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light front price sticker residue. Slight edge wear. Clean interior. Top page block foxing.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 228 p. B&W photos. Notes. Selected Bibliography. IndexAudience: General/trade. Women and Culture: Academic text exploring women's history from ancient civilizations through trends of the 20th century. Suggested further readings are at each chapter's end.

Persea Books, 1977. Published in 1950; New Preface, 1977.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean text pages. Moderate cover and edge wear; spine creasing. Minor corner bumps.. Minervini, Louise Painter (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245p. Audience: General/trade. Out of print for more than 20 years, this biographical novel tells the real story that doesn't change much over the decades: the coal mining life and organized labor conflicts, set in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. The authentic Dolly Hawkins (later Cooper) voices the days and nights of herself a younger member of coal mining generations, descendents of Daniel Boone era pioneers; she speaks of her life, her loves. She is part of the tradition where women serve as both the spiritual and physical strength for others.

Viking., 1995. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Light page block foxing.. 1 Textured blue paper over spine; off-white paper over boards. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. 341 p. 24 cm. Audience: General/trade. 20th century Women's Studies, exploring the lives and professional partnerships of 5 brilliant, achieving women wed to brilliant, achieving men, and also raising children. There is no pattern, and the struggle for each was not always enlightened. The Einstein marriage, for instance, ended after 16 years, but had started with shared studies in the physics laboratory.

Ames, Iowa: Educational Studies Press and the Iowa State University Research Foundation, 1979. Hard cover. Fine in poor dust jacket. DJ flaps tucked inside; remainder missing.. 0 272 p. B&W photos. Charts. Notes by chapter, pages. Index. Brown cloth covered boards. Gold spine titles. Crisp white text pages. Frontispiece portrait. Biography of educator Ella Flagg Young, b.1845, Buffalo, NY-d.1918, Chicago, IL. Her career spanned more than 50 years of Chicago's growth. She became the first woman to head a major city school system, the first woman to be paid $10, 000 per year for a public service job, and the first woman to be president of the National Education Assn. She was Supt. of Schools in Chicago, 1909-1915.

College Station TX.: Texas A&M University Press., 1988. First edition. Stated 1st.. Trade paperback. Very good. Front cover sun-fade at extremities.. 1 Horizontal format paperback. 10x7in. Glued binding. 244 p. Audience: General/trade. Sociology / Rural Women / Photo Essay / Women at Work / Women's Studies. Shattering the 1970s stereotype in media, showing the upscale working woman: the board room, a briefcase, perhaps a BMW. Photojournalist Diane Koos Gentry drove 23000 miles and lived with or beside those she interviewed and photographed. There are 10 chapters, each for a woman in the study. An epilogue updates each woman's experience a decade after the initial interviews.