Search Results: Sexuality & Gender from Shelley and Son Books

Putnam Adult, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Grey and red cloth, black lettering, no writing in the book, 340pp., binding tight, Full refund if not satisfied.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 8vo. Dust jacket lightly rubbed & soiled, slight edge tear. Size: 8vo. 343 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Women & Feminism; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN/EAN: 9780807825051. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

New York: NYU Press, 1979. Paperback. Near Fine. A powerful work filled with disbelief, outrage, and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centures."—Los Angeles Times. "Exposes the dark side of sexuality and dares to ask the crucial question, 'why do men do these things to women?'...the issues it raises deserve nationwide attention."—Susan Brownmiller. "Kathy Barry has written a courageous, crusading book that should be read everywhere, from the local District Attorney's office to the United Nations."—Gloria Steinem. "This powerful and compassionate book should be read by anyone concerned with social values, with sexuality, with psychology — female and male."—Adrienne Rich. Paperback. Previous owner's name written and stamped on several places. xiv, 325pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.

Paris, France: For the Author and His Friends, 1902. Limited Edition. Leather. Very Good +. LIMITED EDITION, 1902. NO 223 OF 375 COPIES. Rebound in tan leather. Ribbed spine with gold lettering and design. Rare. Essentially a catalogue of Charles Carrington's publications. Full refund if not satisfied.

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket as Issued. A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers.... An ambitious attempt to understand that gender and text might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens...[The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole range of women writers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and from places as distant as Spain and Sweden, as well as the more well-known French and English writers."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College"Brings together, under three main categories, diverse methodologies from...some of the foremost scholars and interpreters of each type of material and approach."--Nadia Margolis, University of Massachusetts, AmherstThe women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished… Read More

Columbus, OH: Medical Talk Publishing Co, 1904. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback. Book on puberty for girls. Clean pages with minimal markings and creasing; there are some very small marginal tears on pages 45-49 and some marginalia on pages 66-67 and 78. 96 pp. Dark green cover boards and spine with black lettering and design. The printing on the front cover board is slightly crooked. The cover has rubbing and some small tears along the board and spine edges, corners, and headband. There is also discoloration and some marks on the cover boards. Overall very good condition. Full refund if not satisfied.

Cleis Press, 1999-05-24. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Very good + hardcover in a very good + pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear. Full refund if not satisfied.

Cambridge, Massachusetts / London England: The Belknap Pres of Harvard University Press, 1992, 1993 & 1994. Most are first editions; One is . Hardcover. Near Fine. 9.5" x 6.5" x approx. 1.5" (respectively). Lisa Diercks (Jacket Design); Illustrated throughout. FIVE VOLUME COMPLETE SET. Hardcover. Matching set, bound in multiple two toned publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on each spine. Endpapers match the secondary color of each binding. All volumes are illustrated occasionally throughout with black and white images. Volumes include notes, a bibliography, list of contributors, and illustration credits. Indexed. Dust jackets are illustrated in full color. On a shelf, this set spans 8 inches. <br><br>THE FIVE VOLUMES INCLUDE: <br><br>VOLUME I: "From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints". Fourth printing, 1994. Pauline Schmitt Pantel, editor. Bound in dark teal and black publisher's cloth. xxii, 572 pp. <br><br>VOLUME II:… Read More

New York: Appleton Century, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Inscribed by author. Nicely inscribed by the author and dated 1939. Below it is an owners inscription. The jacket has significant moisture damage - a very faint amount of which went through to about a square inch of the front cover of the book. Full refund if not satisfied.

London: Alexandrian Society, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo (standard book size). Binding rubbed, back strip frayed at top and chipped in several places. This #822 of an edition limited to 1,250 copies. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 421 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Erotica; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

London: John Lehman, 1947. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Small Octavo. Printed in New Zealand, this edition published in England, with the New Zealand date, but dust jacket dated 1948 & probably added in England. Dust jacket lightly soiled. Author makes a preliminary note, "Although not inheriting the robust uxoriousness of his forebear, John Buncle, Esquire, whose seven successive wives were disposed of 'by the lawful process of fever and smallpox,' ... This is the first UK edition. Size: Small Octavo. 85 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Women & Feminism; Family & Relationships. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

Detriot: Wayne State University Press, 1979. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Purple cloth with silver spine lettering. Inscribed by Translator (Timothy F. Sellner) on front free end paper. There is no other writing in the book. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Portrait frontispiece. 229pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Political Inversions attempts to understand the forces at play in conflations both theoretical and cultural of homosexuality and fascism. Taking its cue from Adorno s assertion that totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together, the book examines how aberrant political and sexual economies have been equated across a variety of literary, visual, and theoretical discourses in contemporary debate. At the same time, the author explores the ways in which queer theory and historiography have responded defensively to such conflations, thereby excluding from current discussions much important material. Thus, for example, Political Inversions reassesses the work of German masculinist writers of the early part of the century thinkers whose definitive (but politically troubling) contributions to the construction of homosexual identity have been overlooked by a history heavily invested in the liberal Weimar tradition… Read More

New York: Privately Published. First Edition; limited to 1500 c. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice copy. Brown covers with faux leather spine. Nicely made book - laid paper. Limited to 1500 copies. Binding is tight. Pencil underling throughout. No names written at the beginning. All ten half-tone plate illustrations are present. Scarce book. Full refund if not satisfied.

New York : Random House, 1960 . First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Publisher's cloth. First Printing. xv, 238pp. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. Full refund if not satisfied.

Grand Haven, MI: Brilliance Audio Unabridged, 1999-10-11. Audio Cassette. Very Good. Signed. Autographed by Ronda Rich on front of box. Box a bit worn. Tapes appear to be in good working condition. Full refund if not satisfied.

New York: Wilson & Co, 1844. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Removed from a bound volume, the edges are damp-stained, paper lightly browning. An addition to the work is entitled "Ten Minutes Advice to a Young Lady Going to Choose a Husband. " Size: 8vo. 64 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Women & Feminism; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1853. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 10" x 6" x 2.5. First American edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and decorative designs, including a portrait of a woman in gilt on front cover. [xlviii] 904 pp. Portrait adjacent to title page protected with tissue guard. Gilt top stain. Yellow end papers. Illustrated with portraits in black and white. Binding is tight. <br>Condition:<br>Some of the gilt is faded but still visible. Foxing throughout. Damp stain on the edge of most pages. Covers have wear, rubbing and some discoloration. Binding has been repaired, book is held together very well. Overall a nice copy. Due to the weight and size of this book, additional charges for shipping may be required. Full refund if not satisfied.

New York: Drake Publishers, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good -. Illustrated. Blue cloth with black lettering, illustrated with photos, no writing in the book, 192pp., index, Full refund if not satisfied.