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.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, illustrated with 10 color and 125 tritone plates. A collection of the photographer's portraits of women, 1945-2004. Essay by Anne Hollander. This volume includes photos of Elton John, Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Maria Callas, Isak Dinesen, Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Kate Moss, Tina Turner and many more.. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise very good in similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. Minor edgewear and soil to dust jacket with slight sticker-scar to rear cover. Pencil check marks in margin on a few pages. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A photographic tribute to Julia Tuell, one of the first women to photograph Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century.
Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 284 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives. Women from the Ankle Down includes interviews and cameos with influential figures ranging from Lisa Mayock of Vena Cava to Oscar Award-winning costume designer Patrizia van Brandenstein, from Doc Martens historian Martin Roach to Fashion Institute of Technology museum director Valerie Steele; from Marilyn Monroe and Jane Fonda to Salvador Ferragamo and Christian Dior; from Judy Garland to Wonder Woman.
Hardcover. New York, Fowler and Wells, reprint, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 237 pages. Black cloth, gilt, embossed design. Minor wear to spine edge. Shelf wear. Pages are foxed and tanned throughout. Copyright page states 1849 so assumed reprint. (...A Complete and Authentic History of the Manners and Customs, Character and Condition of the Female Sex, in Civilized and Savage Countries, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time)
Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Larry Utley, 1st, April 30, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Adults only. 117 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, 424 pages plus appendix. This study provides an examination of the Spanish novelist Perez Galdos' turn to the stage in 1892 and his simultaneous shift in approach towards the roles of women in society. Faint pencil marking to about 25 pages in front of volume. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.
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.
Softcover. NY, Theodore B. Donson Ltd, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover stapled catalog, 44 pages, b&w plates. An exhibition of the artist's lithographs from the the French impressionist 1901-1927. Introduction by Theodore Donson. Small corner crease to last 2 pages. Clean copy. Price list laid in.
Softcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. 158 pages. A book of quietly beautiful photographic portraits of Native-American women, accompanied by their own reflections on what it means to be a woman and an Indian in America. The result is a startlingly honest and often poetic work. The women within these pages defy stereotype: they are mothers, activists, artists, environmentalists, and community leaders. Whether living on reservations or in cities, they have struggled to preserve an ancient culture and a land under siege. 85 black-and-white photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 198 pages, b&w illustrations. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of life who helped bring about the Americanization of the New Mexico Territory, from the Mexican War until statehood in 1912. These women were wives of missionaries, soldiers and military officers, and government officials who came from the eastern part of the United States. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. South Royalton VT, Steerforth Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages plus b&w photos. With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who "have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it." With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label "classic." A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same. Wrappers sunned, otherwise tight and clean.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, S. S. Scranton & Co., 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed green cloth covers with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Frontispiece, 'Before the Battle, with tissue intact shows a few light spots. Steel engraved portraits throughout with tissues intact. 596 pages. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boardas. This collection of fifty true disclosures by women around the world from all ages and walks of life reveals their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex, accompanied by full-color interpretive illustrations from cutting-edge artists. Author Lucy-Anne Holmes has spoken to women from around the globe, ranging in age from 19-75, as they reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex. The result is an incredible compendium of true disclosures that are funny and sad, shocking and tender. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A collection of rarely seen black-and-white photographs taken of women in the 1950s and 1960s, captured by the renowned New York City fashion photographer and filmmaker. Designed by Ruth Ansel, this elegantly produced volume captures the romance and glamour of women in the 1950s and 1960s. A mix of fashion and portraiture, it includes intimate and striking portraits of Nico, Faye Dunaway, Edie Sedgwick, Sharon Tate, and Catherine Deneuve. Jerry Schatzberg's moody snapshots of a more innocent and whimsical New York on the brink of the important societal changes of the sixties form a compellingly nostalgic portrait of a stylish moment. Images of jetsetters at an airport terminal, lovers embracing in Central Park, and a woman waltzing in the street in the Financial District portray a time as well as a style. A New York City native, Schatzberg documented the period with the insider's sensibility of Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese, but with the high-fashion style of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. With a keen eye for the magic of the in-between moment, Schatzberg stealthily captured the elegance and beauty of a woman as her role was redefined in the sixties, while at the same time retaining an element of humor and surprise.
Hardcover. NY, Routledge, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 289 pages, b&w illustrations. In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was their compliance. From the first operation in America in 1809, much suffering was relieved at the expense of prolonged surgery endured by both black slaves and prosperous whites. Later, in the Victorian era, many surgeons looked at certain types of behavior as reasons for mutilating operations. Such procedures as "spaying" and clitoridectomies were performed to "cure" hysteria and masturbation, as well as questionable interventionalist surgery in pregnancy and childbirth which still continue today. Women Under the Knife is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture--medical, literary, and sociological--of Victorian society in America and Europe. Clean copy.
Softcover. University of Pennsylvania Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.
Softcover. Portland ME, Coyote Love Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, plain paper wraps with a pictorial dust jacket in two colors on tan stock. 38 pages, SIGNED BY MCDOUGALL on title page, also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Black and white drawings by Gary Buch. Limited to 500 copies of which 25 are signed and numbered. This copy is unnumbered. Promotional flyer laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. A collection of three novellas, featuring: a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from Montana who smells like wheat.
Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 494 pages. Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship--one that included Gertrude Kasebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 558 pages. In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice." This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.By making visible the deep gender bias of existing law, MacKinnon has recast legal debate and action on issues of sex discrimination, sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography, and racism. The essays in this volume document and illuminate some of the momentous and ongoing changes to which this work contributes; the recognition of sexual harassment, rape, and battering as claims for sexual discrimination; the redefinition of rape in terms of women's actual experience of sexual violation; and the reframing of the pornography debate around harm rather than morality. The perspectives in these essays have played an essential part in changing American law and remain fundamental to the project of building a sex-equal future. Clean copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining histories of abolitionism and feminism on both sides of the Atlantic during this dynamic century of change. They illuminate the many ways that the two movements developed together and influenced one another. Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the authors ask how conceptions of slavery and gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, and Britain; how women's activism reached across national boundaries; how racial identities affected the boundaries of women's activism; and what was distinctive about African-American women's participation as activists. Their thought-provoking answers provide rich insights into the history of struggles for social justice across the Atlantic world. Sine faded. Clean copy.
 "Woman As Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below by: Bayley, Stephen")
 "Woman in the Mirror, The by: Avedon, Richard")
 "Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States by: Ginzberg, Professor Lori D.")
 "Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julie E. Tuell by: Aadland, Dan")
 "Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870-1914 by: Callen, Anthea")
 "Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us by: Bergstein, Rachelle")
 "Women in all Ages and Nations... by: Nichols, Thomas L.")
 "Women in Control: Iron Fist, Velvet Glove by: Utley, Larry")
 "Women in the Theatre of Galdos: From Realidad (1892) to Voluntad (1895) by: Lisa P. Conde")
 "Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and London by: Santamaria, Giuseppe")
 "Women of the Belle Epoque by: Albert de Belleroche")
 "Women Of The Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimony of Native American Women by: Farley, Ronnie")
 "Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 (SIGNED COPY) by: Cheryl Foote")
 "Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by: Ann Cornelisen")
 "Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice by: Frank Moore")
 "Women On Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex by: Lucy-Anne Holmes (Ed.)")
 "Women Then: Photographs 1954-1969 by: Morton, Julia and Jerry Schatzberg")
 "Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery by: Ann Dally")
 "Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience by: Andrea Press")
 "Women Who Marry Houses (SIGNED COPY) by: McDougall, Jo")
 "Women With Men by: Ford, Richard")
 "Women's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture by: Davidov, Judith Fryer")
 "Women's Lives, Men's Laws by: MacKinnon, Catharine A.")
 "Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation by: Sklar, Kathryn Kish/ Stewart, James Brewer")