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African American Women of the Old West by: Tricia Martineau Wagner - Product Image

African American Women of the Old West
by: Tricia Martineau Wagner

Softcover. Guilford CT, TwoDot, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. 148 pages, index. The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male--and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. The stories of ten African-American women are reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. Some of these women slaves, some were free, and some were born into slavery and found freedom in the old west. They were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists. These hidden historical figures include Biddy Mason, a slave who fought for her family's freedom; Elizabeth Thorn Scott Flood, a teacher determined to educate black children and aid them in leading better lives; and the mysterious Mary Ellen Pleasant, a civil rights crusader and savvy businesswoman. Even in the face of racial prejudice, these unsung heroes never gave up hope for a brighter future. Clean copy.

Record # 381878

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Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Iconby: Pepper, Terence/Helen Trompeteler - Product Image

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon
by: Pepper, Terence/Helen Trompeteler

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom of the text block. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Large black & white and color photographs throughout. Tight copy. Many portraits ranging throughout Audrey's life.

Record # 352947

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Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa by: Smith, Mary - Product Image

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
by: Smith, Mary

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. The autobiography of an intelligent, traditional Hausa woman. An excellent piece of ethnography. The author, the wife of social anthropologist, became Baba's friend in Nigeria. After many conversations between the two women, she agreed to dictate the story of her life. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380850

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Becoming By Cindy Crawford: By Cindy Crawford with Katherine O' Learyby: Crawford, Cindy - Product Image

Becoming By Cindy Crawford: By Cindy Crawford with Katherine O' Leary
by: Crawford, Cindy

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy, still in publishers shrink wrap, although has a slight tear in shrink wrap on bottom edge. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white photographs throughout. International supermodel Cindy Crawford presents her own personal visual autobiography, the first book to chronicle her life and career, featuring some of her most memorable images.

Record # 352949

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Bettie Page: The Lost Yearsby: Brem, Ron - Product Image

Bettie Page: The Lost Years
by: Brem, Ron

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Hundreds of never before seen black & white photographs and private letters spanning 1949 - 2000.

Record # 353415

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Bettina Rheims: Bonkersby: Rheims, Bettina - Product Image

Bettina Rheims: Bonkers
by: Rheims, Bettina

Hardcover. US, Steidl; Prima edizione , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 8230013

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Carrie Catt: Feminist Politicianby: Fowler, Robert Booth - Product Image

Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician
by: Fowler, Robert Booth

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket, spine slightly sunned. Fowler attempts to restore to Catt her central role in the suffragist movement in the United States and in the founding of the League of Women Voters. Although the first three chapters do recount her life, the author himself notes that this is not a conventional biography. Rather, the work aims primarily at an analysis of Catt as a political leader and political visionary.

Record # 450116

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Chocolate Cheesecake: Celebrating the Modern Black Pin-Upby: Cox PHD, Earnest L.  - Product Image

Chocolate Cheesecake: Celebrating the Modern Black Pin-Up
by: Cox PHD, Earnest L.

Hardcover. New York, Schiffer, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 8230009

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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitressby: Taylor, Candacy A. - Product Image

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
by: Taylor, Candacy A.

Softcover. NY, ILR Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout. "Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture.... This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses' contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an 'important' job to be happy."

Record # 352878

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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitressby: Taylor, Candacy A. - Product Image

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
by: Taylor, Candacy A.

Softcover. New York, ILR Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout. "Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture.... This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses' contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an 'important' job to be happy."

Record # 352877

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Film Journalby: Arnold, Eve - Product Image

Film Journal
by: Arnold, Eve

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Throughout her career, Eve Arnold alternated between serious documentary photography and working behind the scenes on numerous films. At a time when Hollywood studios controlled every aspect of their actors' image, Arnold's candid photographs showed them at their most intimate and their most compelling: Marilyn Monroe sharing a private moment with Arthur Miller, Marlene Dietrich, uncharacteristically girlish in the recording studio, Michael Caine and Candice Bergen doing an impromptu tango number and an exhausted Richard Attenborough stealing a nap in between shooting. Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a collection of these famous film stills along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoot. As her camera revealed the unseen sides of Hollywood legends, Arnold also became privy to their private lives. In her Film Journal, she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film sets, of Marilyn Monroe combing her pubic hair during an interview, Simone Signoret discussing her husband Yves Montand's infidelities, Joan Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, and Marlene Dietrich recounting her night with John F. Kennedy. With 80 previously unpublished photographs, including many old favorites, Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a classic from one of the great photographers of our time.

Record # 352629

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Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capaby: Rogoyska, Jane - Product Image

Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa
by: Rogoyska, Jane

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A reexamination of the woman who created the legend of Robert Capa, the world'sfirst female photojournalist to die in combat, Gerda Taro. In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish emigree, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, Andre Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa--and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation. When Gerda was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of 26, Robert Capa was her most notable mourner--his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Capa's story. Seventy years after her death a long-lost suitcase was discovered in Mexico, containing thousands of negatives by Capa and Taro. Most astonishingly of all, the "Mexican suitcase" showed that photographs that had been attributed previously to Capa were, in fact, the work of Taro. Jane Rogoyska's book will trace Taro's life and reveal the depth of her relationship with Capa. Charismatic and extraordinary, they epitomized one of the most tumultuous periods of the century.

Record # 352692

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Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capaby: Rogoyska, Jane - Product Image

Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa
by: Rogoyska, Jane

Hardcover. New York, Random House UK, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352693

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Girl in a Band: A Memoirby: Gordon, Kim - Product Image

Girl in a Band: A Memoir
by: Gordon, Kim

Hardcover. US, Dey Street Books, 7th pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352447

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Groupies and Other Electric Ladies: The original 1969 Rolling Stone photographs by Baron Wolmanby: Wolman, Baron - Product Image

Groupies and Other Electric Ladies: The original 1969 Rolling Stone photographs by Baron Wolman
by: Wolman, Baron

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club , 2nd, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. The Groupies was a special edition of Rolling Stone magazine published in 1969, and for the first time the photographs from that issue are featured in book form, together with previously unpublished images and behind-the-scenes shots and interviews.

Record # 352610

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Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Powerby: Klein, Mason - Product Image

Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power
by: Klein, Mason

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy. Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power traces the path of this remarkable early feminist and visionary art patron. In Rubinstein's world, art and commerce blended seamlessly. She ornamented her salons and homes with splendid artworks--Surrealist murals, modernist portraits, Art Deco furniture, Venetian mirrors, and one of the era's great collections of African and Oceanic art. Her understanding of beauty was similarly expansive and democratic: she saw the face as the site for self-expression and the exploration of identity. The Rubinstein beauty program thus included not only makeup and hairdressing, but also lessons in health, deportment, and culture. Such features, innovative at the time and wildly popular, today provide a fascinating glimpse into popular culture as it affected women in the 20th century.

Record # 352929

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Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Powerby: Klein, Mason - Product Image

Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power
by: Klein, Mason

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 352921

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Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970by: Wills, David - Product Image

Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. New York, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with laminated cover boards. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear and rubbing to covers.

Record # 354047

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Imagining Women: Fujian Folk Talesby: Gernant, Karen  - Product Image

Imagining Women: Fujian Folk Tales
by: Gernant, Karen

Softcover. New York, Interlink Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light fading to rear wrappers, otherwise clean, tight copy. The 37 stories which comprise this collection challenge the long-held stereotypes and provide a rare look at the everyday lives of common people in villages across Fujian province. Despite the efforts and influence of the male-dominant Confucian culture, the stories reflect women's voices and women's lives touched by power and independence.

Record # 4450195

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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation (Disney Editions Deluxe)by: Johnson, Mindy - Product Image

Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation (Disney Editions Deluxe)
by: Johnson, Mindy

Hardcover. Glendale, CA, Disney Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Creased edgesto dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy. Focusing on talent, Disney sought female story specialists and concept artists to expand the scope and sensibility of his storytelling. Upon establishing the first animation-training program for women, ink pens were traded for pencils as ladies made their way into the male-laden halls of animation.

Record # 353028

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Life's Fitful Fever: A Volume of Memoriesby: Nevinson, Margaret Wynne - Product Image

Life's Fitful Fever: A Volume of Memories
by: Nevinson, Margaret Wynne

Hardcover. London, A & E Black, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 293 pages. Nevinson (1858-1932) was a journalist and women's rights activist. A nice reading copy of this hard-to-find autobiography. Covers edgeworn but a clean copy.

Record # 371310

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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years (SIGNED COPY)by: Charles Capper - Product Image

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years (SIGNED COPY)
by: Charles Capper

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. INSCRIBED BY CAPPER on front fly leaf with presentation bookplate opposite on inside front cover. With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the firsthand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

Record # 378057

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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Yearsby: Capper, Charles - Product Image

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years
by: Capper, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 423 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456608

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Maud Gonne: A Biographyby: Ward, Margaret  - Product Image

Maud Gonne: A Biography
by: Ward, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Pandora, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Pages have darkening on edges. A tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 4450232

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Of Woman Born - Motherhood as Experience and Institution (SIGNED COPY)by: Rich, Adrienne - Product Image

Of Woman Born - Motherhood as Experience and Institution (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rich, Adrienne

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages. SIGNED BY RICH on title page. Light soil to dust-jacket.

Record # 70512

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Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Iconby: Felder, Rachel - Product Image

Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon
by: Felder, Rachel

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 369010

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Rock Star Chic: The Dark Side of High Fashionby: Farameh, Editor) Patrice (Author - Product Image

Rock Star Chic: The Dark Side of High Fashion
by: Farameh, Editor) Patrice (Author

Hardcover. US, The Curated Collection, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A visual journey of over 300 photographs with fashion's most cutting-edge photographers, designers and stylists exposes the ominously beautiful obsession with the bad boy aesthetic and reveals what draws us into the darkness, providing a daring testament to the love affair with the gloomy, sultry side of Rock 'n' Roll. Divided into five chapters that explore the different dark sides of high fashion: Dark Angel, Vamp Glam, Tribal Nomad, Hard Rock, and Future Punk.

Record # 363322

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Rock Star Chic: The Dark Side of High Fashionby: Farameh, Editor) Patrice (Author - Product Image

Rock Star Chic: The Dark Side of High Fashion
by: Farameh, Editor) Patrice (Author

Hardcover. US, The Curated Collection, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A visual journey of over 300 photographs with fashion's most cutting-edge photographers, designers and stylists exposes the ominously beautiful obsession with the bad boy aesthetic and reveals what draws us into the darkness, providing a daring testament to the love affair with the gloomy, sultry side of Rock 'n' Roll. Divided into five chapters that explore the different dark sides of high fashion: Dark Angel, Vamp Glam, Tribal Nomad, Hard Rock, and Future Punk.

Record # 352737

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Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photographyby: Hudson, Giles - Product Image

Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
by: Hudson, Giles

Hardcover. UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pictures throughout. Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Born to a preeminent English family, Acland first gained note as a portraitist whose illustrious subjects--among them two prime ministers, the physicist Lord Kelvin, and the noted art critic John Ruskin--were visitors to her family's Oxford home. Yet it was through her work in the thenfledgling field of color photography that Acland achieved her greatest acclaim. When her color photographs were shown at the Royal Photographic Society in 1905, many considered them to be among the finest work produced in the new medium. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal. Additional images include four unrecorded portraits by Lewis Carroll of Acland and her brothers--shed light on the work of her contemporaries, including acquaintances and artistic influences like Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. A fascinating look at the earliest days of color photography, this book also offers a glimpse into the lives of an influential English family and its circle of friends.

Record # 352673

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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (SIGNED COPY)by: Delores S. Williams - Product Image

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (SIGNED COPY)
by: Delores S. Williams

Hardcover. Maryknoll NY, Orbis Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagarmother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God, Delores Williams finds a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. Through Hagars story of poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God, she traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present day. What emerges from this shared interplay of race, sex, and class, is a new womanist theology that promotes survival and wholeness as well as liberation. Clean copy.

Record # 381593

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Six Korean Women: The Socialization of Shamansby: Harvey, Youngsook Kim - Product Image Click for larger image

Six Korean Women: The Socialization of Shamans
by: Harvey, Youngsook Kim

Saint Paul MN, West Publishing Group, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth pictorial covers, faded spine. The life histories of 6 Korean shaman women who share in common the social ascription of outcast status. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380469

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Strictures on the Modern System of Female Educationby: More, Hannah - Product Image

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
by: More, Hannah

Hardcover. John Babcock, 1st, 1801, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Full brown calf leather binding shows heavy wear to edges. Pages and endpapers heavily foxed and tanned. Moderate soil. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Two volumes in one.

Record # 354192

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Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60'sby: Wills, David - Product Image

Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60's
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Weldonowen, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Switched On takes you back to a time of looming social and cultural upheaval, when a cadre of energetic, creative, forward-thinking women explored undiscovered fashion terrain, and painted the backdrop for a transformative ten years. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs from the likes of David Bailey, Bert Stern, Milton H. Greene, Patrick Lichfield, Gianni Penati, Sam Levin, Arthur Evans, Loomis Dean, Susan Wood, Veronique Bucossi, David Hurn, Alan Pappe, Bud Fraker, and Malcolm Bulloch.

Record # 353034

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Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Ageby: Scharff, Virginia  - Product Image

Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
by: Scharff, Virginia

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. B&W photos. The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage the fiery motored beast. Overcoming that stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal feats of driving in both war and peace demolished the gender barriers against their taking the road. After women proved once and for all that they could drive under the worst conditions in World War I, they adapted the automobile to their domestic roles in urban society during the 1920s. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological history.

Record # 600341

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The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biographyby: Matteson, John - Product Image

The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography
by: Matteson, John

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America. A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. While living in Europe she fell in love with an Italian nobleman, with whom she became pregnant out of wedlock. In 1848 she joined the fight for Italian independence and, the following year, reported on the struggle while nursing the wounded within range of enemy cannons. Amid all these strivings and achievements, she authored the first great work of American feminism: Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Despite her brilliance, however, Fuller suffered from self-doubt and was plagued by ill health. John Matteson captures Fuller's longing to become ever better, reflected by the changing lives she led. 28 black-and-white illustrations. Smallbump to top corner otherwise like new.

Record # 382195

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The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel by: Michel Louise edited by Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter - Product Image

The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel
by: Michel Louise edited by Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter

Hardcover. University AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a lightly worn dust jacket. Here are the passionate memoirs of the French Communard leader, a hero, saint and martyr to the socialists and anarchists battling the injustices of the Third Republic. 202 pages with a bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 379992

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Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternityby: Nancy Jay - Product Image

Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity
by: Nancy Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.

Record # 371549

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Wild World Of Betty Page, The: An Anthology Of Classic Fetish Photography by: Irving Klaw (Photographer), Stephen Pentacoste (Editor)  - Product Image

Wild World Of Betty Page, The: An Anthology Of Classic Fetish Photography
by: Irving Klaw (Photographer), Stephen Pentacoste (Editor)

Softcover. US, Deicide Press, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Adult Content. Irving Klaw was the legendary pioneer of publishing fetish and bondage illustration, but he was best-known for his discovery.

Record # 352657

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Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivityby: Raymond, Claire - Product Image

Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity
by: Raymond, Claire

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 470145

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Woman As Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Belowby: Bayley, Stephen - Product Image

Woman As Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below
by: Bayley, Stephen

Hardcover. US, Conran, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 336 pages. In this endlessly provocative volume, Stephen Bayley, design authority and cultural critic, takes on the female body, analyzing each crook and every curve as a sign, a symbol, and as a designed object. From Aphrodite to the industrialization of the breast, and from pin-ups to the future of sex, WOMAN AS DESIGN is a fascinating mix of design, cultural history, erotica, fashion, and fetishism.

Record # 350720

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Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and Londonby: Santamaria, Giuseppe - Product Image

Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and London
by: Santamaria, Giuseppe

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color pictures throughout. Photographer, art director and fashion enthusiast Giuseppe Santamaria takes us to the streets of six incredible cities to showcase the unique and stylish women that inhabit these towns. From classic elegance to menswear-inspired casual, a woman's dress style speaks volumes about her personality - and the city she inhabits. Featuring interviews with the everyday women whose distinctive styles cut a fine figure in the world of women's fashion, this striking photographic collection will take you on a global sartorial adventure.

Record # 352711

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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 by: Foster, Frances Smith - Product Image

Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892
by: Foster, Frances Smith

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 206 pages. The first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the 20th century. From the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in 1686, to the literary tradition that included Jarena Lee and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, this literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to black women.

Record # 381585

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