New York: Routledge, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. The first substantial attempt to produce a dialogue between feminists and their male allies, this collection of essays assesses the benefits or disadvantages of male participation in feminism. More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Winner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Translated from the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Paperback. Missing title/copyright page. More
London: Scribner, 2020. Jamie Chang (tr.). First UK Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a...... More
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2001. Softcover. Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Everywoman is the essential manual to women's health. This book will provide you with the knowledge to ask questions and make empowered decisions about your own wellbeing. A leading pioneer in gynaecology, Derek Llewellyn-Jones' balanced and clear-cut advice provides..... More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Trade Paperback Edition, Seventh Printing. Softcover. A collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in literature and feminist theory, including Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Carolyn Heilbrun, Annette Kolodny, Nancy Miller, Lillian Robinson, and others. More
New York: Routledge, 1989. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Library Journal: Feminist criticism began in the 1970s with the analysis of women's writing by women; in recent years, "gender studies" has come to constitute a field in which male and female critics consider the construction, meaning, and transformation..... More
Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson and a foreword by Sheila McGrath Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the..... More
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. Using the life stories of twenty women, psychologist Emily Hancock has identified a turning point in a women's life when a girl crystallizes a distinct and vital sense of self, which she then loses in the process of growing up, and tries to..... More
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007. Rodrigo Corral (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. First published in 1997, Inventing Memory is about four generations of remarkable women from a Jewish-American family-their triumphs, tragedies, scandals, and love affairs-as related by Sara Solomon, the youngest of these women. While trying to..... More
Southern Materials Center Inc. (Taipei) / Bell Publishing Company (New York), 1967. Mary Jane Harley (jacket and endpaper designs). Hardcover. This is a Taiwanese reprint although it is unclear whether it is an authorized reprinted or a pirated edition. From jacket flap: This is the first complete history in..... More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. First Pelican Books Edition. Paperback. Anthology of oral testimonies from 14 British women, aged 30 to 70. The title, Dutiful Daughters, reflects struggles of socio-cultural changes iin 1980s England, marked by the election of Margaret Thatcher, and the rise of the Woman's Movement. A primary resource..... More
New York: Crown Business, 2009. First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. The Remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders. Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First Edition (presumed). Third Printing. Hardcover. Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs. With a keen..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Published in association with Women and War, a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London. More
London: Futura Publications, 1988. First Futura Edition. Paperback. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2015. Third Printing. Paperback. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author. Outspoken, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd tackles the hot-button topic of gender politics in this “funny, biting, and incisive take on women's place in American society today” (Library Journal). Are men afraid of..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Fourth Printing. Paperback. An obituary for the author by Mark Schilling published in the Japan Times on Nov. 28, 2010: Nicolas Bornoff, who died of cancer in London on Oct. 30, was my predecessor as a film critic at The Japan Times, starting in..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
Feltham: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1982. Revised paperback edition. Originally published by Rizzoli (Italy) in 1975, LETTER TO A CHILD NEVER BORN was quickly translated and sold in twenty-seven countries, becoming an extraordinary world success. It is the tragic monologue of a woman speaking with the child she carries in her womb..... More
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