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
London: Scribner, 2020. Jamie Chang (tr.). First UK Edition. 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 female preyed..... 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
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
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Bryan Waterman, Jennifer Harris (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Published anonymously in 1797, Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette grabbed American interest..... More
Hong Kong: OurselfZine, 2020. November 2020. Softcover. For queer voices in Hong Kong。 Ourself Zine interviews friends and lovers of the LGBTQ+ community on how they navigate gender and sexuality in Hong Kong - How much space do cis heterosexual couples take up on billboards, in love hotels, even..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. This long-awaited work reconstructs the ways in which the meanings and uses of sex changed during that important moment of political and social configuration viewed as the birth of modernity. Isabel V. Hull analyzes the shift in..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. No. 7 in the Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology series Two papers. One by Jack Goody on the use of bridewealth and dowry in Africa and Eurasia. The other by Dr Tambiah on the same institutions but in India, Ceylong..... More
Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding..... 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
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J...... 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
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Contains a complete English translation of Pan Chao's Lessons for Women 女誡. 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
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