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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories..... 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
New York: Washington Square Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Paperback. Missing title/copyright page. 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
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
London: Thames & Hudson, 2018. Revised and Expanded Edition. Trade Paperback. This richly diverse exploration of female artists and self-portraits is a brilliant and poignant demonstration of originality in works of haunting variety. The two earliest self-portraits come from 12th-century illuminated manuscripts in which nuns gaze at us across eight..... More
London: Fourth Estate, 2012. Fourteenth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel The publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that..... 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
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
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
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