women

Hardcover. US, Ullmann Publishing, 1st, 2010-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Over a foot square, color photographs. 320 pages. Photographer Stefan Schutz spent many months traveling through Africa in an all-terrain vehicle. During that time he passed through a variety of countries, landscapes, and seasons, diverting from the beaten track in his search for something different. He often found it in the everyday life of villages, which he experienced at close quarters among large communities of men, women, children, and animals. The result is a fascinating collection of [contemporary] images that depict people and landscapes in a different way from anything we have seen before.

Hardcover. London, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, covers 100 years of shoe history, from Andre Perugia's designs for society women in the 1920s to the red-soled shoes from Christian Louboutin favored by celebrities. This book explores the key designers, technical developments and cultural influences that shaped shoe fashions.

Hardcover. Novato, CA, Underwood Miller, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Black & white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages. Black & white maps, plans and illustrations. Documents the experiences of late-Renaissance Venetian nuns, many of whom were upper-class women immured against their will, exploring how convents of the period were often political hotbeds and the sites of illicit love affairs in their resident's efforts to find fulfillment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman--a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A small hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket, as new. 132 pages in color. Clean copy.

London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between.Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Washington Seen Fredric Miller and Howard Gillette bring together nearly four hundred unique photographs from the Gilded Age to the Great Society. Throughout, the focus is not on streets and monuments but on the complex relationships among the people of Washington-men and women, black and white-and the way they worked and lived. Here are Washingtonians at home and at work, at restaurant tables and lunch counters, in schools and churches, dancing the jitterbug and going to the movies, cheering the Redskins, the Senators, and the Homestead Greys. In the accompanying text, Miller and Gillette invite readers to enter into an intimate "conversation with the past," offering insightful commentary on the images of people whose faces cannot fail to captivate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A visual survey of Black style from the 1940s through the 1970s. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Featuring snapshots of over 150 black men and women's most unforgettable "style moments", the book includes personal photographs taken from the author's own family and circle of friends including Oprah Winfrey, James Baldwin, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Tracy Reese, Patrick Kelly, Kimora Lee, Bobby Short, Bethann Hardison, and Portia LaBeija, among countless others. This is the 2006 first printing with a different cover than the later reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Some shelf wear and minor tear to printed acetate dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top corner. Otherwise clean, tight copy. "This book showcases a wide range of styles by such fashion luminaries as Cassini, Chanel, Dior, Armani, and McQueen, among others. The beautiful fashions, photographed by such notable photographers as Patrick Demarchelier, Benno Graziani, Horst, Arthur Elgort, Milton Greene, David LaChapelle, and Irving Penn capture the effervescent spirit that is associated with the wedding dress. The Wedding Dress begins with an overview of the sumptuous wedding gown, chronicling its history from royal weddings to today's celebrities."

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping, 291 pages. Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Methuen Publishing , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters and sciences to include the topics of women and gender; and, the nature of family and the changing roles of women within society. As such, Catharine Stimpson employs a transdisciplinary approach, to encourage greater understanding of the differences among women, and thus socially-constructed differences in general. Where the Meanings Are tells of some of the arguments within feminism during the re-designing and designing of cultural spaces, as post-modernism began to change the boundaries of race, class, and gender. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 426 pages, illustrations. From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state-and the South--white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. In 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black predators, Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record editor, wrote that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual. His editorial ignited outrage across the South, with calls to lynch Manly. Clean copy.

Softcover. Newark DE, Juan De LA Cuesta , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages. clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 475 pages, b&w photos, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge. A biography of Frances Marion, one of the earliest--and for many years the most successful--screenwriters in Hollywood. Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s.

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.

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.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light sun-fade to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

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)