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1) The First Fifty Years: A History of the University Women's Club of Toronto 1903-1953

Toronto: University Women's Club of Toronto, 1953. First Edition, very good with blue cloth-covered boards, pages clean and tight, 50pages. Frontispiece is black and white photo of 162 St George Street.. CANADIAN AUTHORS CANADA WOMEN. more information

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2) Masques of Morality : Females in Fiction
Aitken, Johan L

Toronto, Canada: The Women's Press, 1987. A fine trade paper back, 190 pages. First printing.. ISBN: 0889611130. WOMEN LITERATURE LITERARY CRITICISM GENERAL. more information

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3) Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography
Anderson, Doris

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1996. First Paperback Edition. A fine copy in wraps. . ISBN: 1-55013-767-0. CANADIAN AUTHORS CANADA BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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4) When Women Rebel: The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru
Andreas, Carol

Westport Conneticut: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1985. First Paperback Edition. A near fine trade paperback. ISBN: 0882081969. WOMEN FEMINISM PERU ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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5) Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie
Andrews, Audrey

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. An examination of the reasons why Audrie Joudrie attempted in 1995 to kill her husband, social historical and personal. First Edition, a fine trade paperback. . ISBN: 0889203342. WOMEN CRIME. more information

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6) Shakkai : Woman of the Sacred Garden
Andrews, Lynn V

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0060167114. GARDENS JAPAN NATURE RELIGION WOMEN GARDENING REGIONAL FANTASY. more information

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7) South African Women on the Move
Barrett, Jane; Dawber, Aneene; Klugman, Barbara; Obery, Ingrid; Shindler, Jennifer; Yawitch, Joanne; Obery, Ingrid (editor)

Toronto, ON, Canada: Between the Lines, 1986. A near fine softcover, pages clean and tight, 266 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white photos. . ISBN: 0919946658. WOMEN SOUTH AFRICA ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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8) Gal: A True Life
Bolton, Ruthie

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. The autobiography of a young black woman born in 1961 in South Carolina, her childhood, her success and failures. Written under a pseudonym. First edition, sixth printing. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-15-100104-9. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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9) Touching the Earth
Bondar, Roberta

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994. A personal account of the experience of traveling in space by Canada's first woman astronaut who made the voyage on the space shuttle Discovery. First Edition. Signed by the author. . ISBN: 1-55013-575-9. BIOGRAPHY SPACE ASTRONAUT WOMEN. more information

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10) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Brent, Linda; Child, L. Maria (editor)

New York: Harvest Books / Harcourt Brace, 1973. A near fine trade paperback, pages clean and tight. Fifth printing.. ISBN: 0156443503. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN SLAVES HISTORY. more information

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11) Jump
Brill, Debbie with Lawton, James

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1986. Autobiography by the Canadian woman athlete including a frank discussion of the commercialism and politics of sport. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-88894-502-7. WOMEN SPORTS. more information

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12) Out of the Garden : Women Writers on the Bible
Buchmann, Christina (editor); Spiegel, Celina (editor)

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Books, 1994. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0449906922. BIBLE LITERATURE CRITICISM INTERPRETATION RELIGION OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN. more information

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13) One Woman's Arctic
Burnford, Sheila

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1973. By the author of The Incredible Journey. Third printing. Fine in a clean dustjacket with one tear along folded front edge. . ISBN: 0316117161. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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14) Changing Patterns: Women In Canada
Burt, Sandra (editor); Code, Lorraine (editor); Dorney, Lindsay (editor)

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. How the women's movement changed the lives of women in Canada. First Edition, a near fine trade paperback, pages slightly darkened but clean and tight, no underlining, light crease on back card.. ISBN: 0771028539. CANADIAN AUTHORS CANADA WOMEN HISTORY. more information

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15) Knee Deep In Paradise
Butler, Brett

New York: Hyperion Press Limited, 1996. Autobiography by the comedienne. A very good copy, bottom front corner slightly bumped, in a fine dustjacket. First Edition.. ISBN: 0786861363. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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16) A-LASS-KAN Adventure
Carey, Mary

Talkeetna, Alaska: Tex-Alaska Press, 1990. Carey describes many of the more remote areas of Alaska. Noted jacket illustration is photo of the "shooting star"' field destroyed by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos. 345 pages. First Edition. A near fine copy, dark blue leatherette boards, gilt lettering, author's inscription on front facing endpage, pages are tight and clean. Dustjacket is edgeworn, chipped at edges on back panel and spine and has one closed tear at front edge, is still attractive and now protected in mylar cover. . WOMEN TRAVEL. more information

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17) She Said, She Said: Women's Stories of Love, Betrayal, and the Men They Have Shared As Husbands and Lovers
Cato, Leigh

Vancouver: Whitecap Books Ltd, 1996. A collection of interviews with over 80 women on four continents who have shared men as husbands and lovers. Trade paperback in fine condition. Previously published as "Her Version".. ISBN: 1-55110-442-3. WOMEN ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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18) Lady with a Spear
Clark, Eugenie

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953. A scientist's story of her career in the marine world. 16 pages of photographs. First Edition. A very good copy, bottom page corners creased, previous owner's bookplate on half-title torn at corner. Very good dustjacket. . SCIENCE BIOGRAPHY FEMINISM WOMEN WORK. more information

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19) True North
Conway, Jill Ker

Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Biography of the year's Conway spent in Canada. First Edition. As new in like jacket. . ISBN: 0-394-28067-9. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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20) Where It all Began: Italy, 1954
Cornelisen, Ann

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1990. Autobiographical account of Cornelisen's decision to work for the Save the Children's Fund. First Edition. A very good copy, paper rubbed on front endpage and front facing endpage, in a very good dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-525-24829-3. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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21) Life of Evelyn Underhill
Cropper, Margaret

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Biography of the author of Mysticism and Worship by her close friend. First American Edition, a fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. . BIOGRAPHY WOMEN RELIGION. more information

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22) The Incredible Mrs. Chadwick: The Most Notorious Woman of Her Age
Crosbie, John S

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1975. Biography of a railroad worker's daughter from Eastwood, Ontario, born in 1857 and who became an entrepreneur, forger, clairvoyant, prostitute and society lady. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket, closed tears, rubbed at edges and corners. Signed by the author on the front facing end page. . ISBN: 0-07-082194-1. CANADIAN AUTHORS CANADA BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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23) Women in China
Curtin, Katie

New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975. A 70's examination of the changes in women's roles in China since the Revolution. Trade paperback, light wear to cover, pages clean and tight. . ISBN: 0873484045. WOMEN CHINA SOCIAL SCIENCE WOMENS STUDIES HISTORY. more information

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24) Determination: Tibetan Women & the Struggle for an Independent Tibet
Devine, Carol

Toronto: Vauve Press, 1993. A near fine trade paperback. Signed inscription from the author on the front endpaper. . more information

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25) Irma
Devine, Marjorie

Toronto: Vauve Press, 2002. A fine trade paperback, signed by the author on the title page. . ISBN: 0969693818. WOMEN DISABILITY BIOGRAPHY. more information

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26) Katharine: Katharine Boehner Hockin, a biography
Donnelly, Mary Rose & Dau, Heather

Winfield, British Columbia: Wood Lake Books Inc, 1992. Born in China during the last year of the Qing dynasty, and the youngest member of the Woman's Missionary Society at that time, Katherine Hockin, a Canadian, experienced China's warlord period, the republican years of Chiang Kai-shek and the present People's Republic. First Edition. A fine copy, softcover.. ISBN: 0-929032-75-6. BIOGRAPHY CHINA MISSIONARY WOMEN FEMINIST. more information

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27) Outside
Duras, Marguerite

Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. A collection of essays. First English language edition. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer. A very good copy, slant to spine, light shelfwear, dustjacket corners rubbed, light edgewear. . ISBN: 0-8070-6310-X. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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28) Images and Self-Images: Male and Female in Morocco
Dwyer, Daisy Hilse

New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Second printing of trade paperback. Softcover, wraps slightly faded, some red underlining. . ISBN: 0-231-04303-1. GENDER WOMEN MEN ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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29) Facepowder and Gunpowder
Ellis, Jean M with Isabel Dingman

Toronto: S J Reginald Saunders & Company Limited, 1947. Illustrated by Jack Hambleton. First Canadian Edition, a very good copy with clean red-cloth-covered boards, very light wear at bottom edges, in a good dustjacket, chipped at corners and top of spine, wear at edges, still attractive. . BIOGRAPHY WOMEN HISTORY WAR MILITARY. more information

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30) The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Erdrich, Louise

New York: HarperPerennial/Harper Collins, 1996. First Paperback Edition. A near fine copy of the paperback. . ISBN: 0-06-017132-4. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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31) Kit Coleman Queen of Hearts: Canada's Pioneer Woman Journalist
Ferguson, Ted

Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1978. Near fine, with brown paper covered boards, black cloth spine, 182 pages. Also includes letter from Rick Archbold of Doubleday Canada to Bill Glasco of the Tarragon Theatre suggesting the book as the basis of a one-woman show. Mylar covered jacket is price-clipped, lightly soiled, shows edge wear and perforation, tiny missing chip along back board edge. First Edition.. ISBN: 0385134479. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN ACTORS. more information

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32) A Woman's Place : An Illustrated History of women at Home from The Roman Villa to the Victorian Town House
Filbee, Marjorie

London: Ebury Press, 1980. First edition. A very good copy, pages clean and tight, bottom corners lightly bumped. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and photos, page 160, residue glue oval at top of front free endpaper from price sticker but clean and tidy in a near fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0852231547. WOMEN HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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33) Lip Service: The Truth About Women's Darker Side in Love, Sex, and Friendship
Fillion, Kate

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. A near-fine copy, remainder dot on bottom, in a fine dustjacket. First Edition.. ISBN: 0002554348. WOMEN. more information

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34) Trailblazers: Women talk about changing Canada
Finlayson, Judith

Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1999. The stories of thirty-six famous Canadian women whose efforts and successes remade Canadian society. First Edition. Fine in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-385-25658-2. BIOGRAPHY CANADA WOMEN. more information

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35) A Child In The Forest
Foley, Winifred

London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1974. Autobiographical account of childhood in a small mining village followed by life as a living-in maid in the twenties. First Edition. A near fine copy, slight slant to spine, in a very good dustjacket, short closed tear at front panel, and short tears at top and bottom of spine edge.. ISBN: 0-563-12605-1. BIOGRAPHY. more information

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36) The Way She Looks Tonight: Five Women of Style - Marlene Dietrich, The Duchess of Windsor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elinor Glyn, Eugenie Bonaparte
Fowler, Marian

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1996. Signed by author on the front-facing endpage. Previous owner's gift inscription wrapped around author signature. A near fine copy, in a near fine dustjacket. Front panel of jacket slightly rippled at bottom . ISBN: 0-679-30811-3. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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37) Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens
Fraser, Antonia

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. The story of Boadicea's stand against the Romans and that of other warrior queens including Zenobia of Palmyra, Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola, Catherine the Great, the Rani of Jhansi, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher. Fifty-four black & white illustrations and sixteen colour illustrations. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-297-79486-8. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN HISTORY. more information

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38) The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot In Seventeenth-Century England
Fraser, Antonia

London: Pheonix Press, 2002. A near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 1842126350. WOMEN HISTORY MARRIAGE LAW. more information

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39) The War Against Women
French, Marilyn

New York: Summit Books, 1992. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-671-66157-4. WOMEN. more information

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40) Barbara Frum: A Daughter's Memoir
Frum, Linda

Toronto: Random House Canada, 1996. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. . WOMEN BIOGRAPHY. more information

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41) The Bond Between Women : A Journey to Fierce Compassion
Galland, China

New York: Riverhead Books /Penguin Putnam, 1998. First edition. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Histories of women, both real and mythological, from around the world.. ISBN: 1573220884. WOMEN FEMINISM HISTORY. more information

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42) Elizabeth Bowen
Glendinning, Victoria

New York: Alfred A Knopf Canada, 1978. Biography of the Anglo-Irish novelist. 16 pages of photographs. A very good copy, publisher's logo remainder mark stamped on bottom edges, front top corner bumped, in a very good dustjacket, wear at corners. First American Edition.. ISBN: 0394405331. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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43) Vita: A Biography of Vita Sackville-West
Glendinning, Victoria

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. A near fine copy in a very good dustjacket, some wear at edges, one small tear at top back. First Edition.. ISBN: 0-394-52023-8. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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44) Book
Goldberg, Whoopi

New York: Rob Weisach Books, 1997. Autobiography. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-688-15252-X. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN FILM. more information

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45) Guinevere
Goodrich, Norma Lorre

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Historical account of Guinevere, her role in the Arthurian legends and the reality. Stated first edition, remainder stripe at bottom along spine edge, otherwise tight, bright and clean in a near fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0060164425. BIOGRAPHY ARTHURIAN GUENEVERE LEGENDS LITERATURE LITERARY CRITICISM MEDIEVAL WOMEN HISTORY. more information

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46) Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America In A Small Plane
Gosnell, Mariana

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Uncorrected Proof. A fine UPC in gold-yellow card wraps. . ISBN: 0-679-40025-7. WOMEN TRAVEL AVIATION. more information

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47) Woman of Labrador
Goudie, Elizabeth

Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1973. The first book written about Labrador women by a native-born Labrador woman. Second printing. A near fine copy in a good price-clipped dustjacket, edgewear and two tears.. ISBN: 0-88778-079-2. CANADIAN AUTHORS CANADA BIOGRAPHY WOMEN. more information

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48) Sex & Destiny: the Politics of Human Fertility
Greer, Germaine

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984. A very good copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition.. ISBN: 0060151404. WOMEN FEMINISM. more information

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49) Sex & Destiny: the Politics of Human Fertility
Greer, Germaine

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1984. First Canadian Edition. A very good copy in a near fine dustjacket, some wear at bottom of spine.. ISBN: 0-7737-2021-9. WOMEN FEMINISM. more information

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50) The Fabric of My Life: Reflections of Helen Frances Gregor RCA
Gregor, Helen Francis with Mach, Anetta

Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1987. Autobiography and catalogue of work by the Czech-Canadian textile artist. First Edition, a near fine copy, high gloss boards, dark purple endpapers, pages clean and tight, illustrated throughout by black and white photos and colour plates of artwork. Previous owner's name discreetly written at top of reverse of half-title page.. ISBN: 0-919567-28-2. BIOGRAPHY WOMEN ART. more information

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