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New York:: Anchor Books / Doubleday, , (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Journalist Gini Sikes spent a year hanging out with girl gangs in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and San Antonio, and the result is a "vivid, honest portraits of gang girls - too long ignored - which raises themes that are crucial to all young women: power and loss, self-determination and constraint, violence, despair, and ultimately, hope." (Peggy Orenstein) Girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts, but among the differences are abortion, teen pregnancy and teen motherhood, endless beatings and the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gangbangers during initiation, haphazardly raising kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend off gangbanging himself. Author's note. xxv, 276 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (2006.). First edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Newspaper review laid in. . First printing. A loving tribute to his wife, published five years after her death. 78 pp.

New York:: Villard,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to rear flap of dj). First printing. Tells the stories of the remarkable women Morris encountered on the road while filming her PBS series 'Adventure Divas'. "We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhis chief of police, who revolutionized Indias infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the governments strict stance on art." Illustrated. List of resources. xx, 283 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1971.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF.. First US printing. Letters from prison of a French schoolteacher prosecuted for an affair with a 16 year old boy. Includes a long interpretive essay by Mavis Gallant, a preface by Raymond Jean. Letters translated by Ghislaine Boulanger.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An "attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, he uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams." Notes, bibliography, index. ix, 281 pp.

Vancouver, BC:: New Star Books,, 1986.. First edition -. Very good+.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Feminist poet, writer, photographer and activist's account of her re-adjustment to life in the United States after 25 years of voluntary exile and work among women in Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua. In 1985, the INS denied her resident status because of her writings. Illustrated with many of her photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page 'For Sandra, in struggle.' 350 pages.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (2003). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) More than four centuries of women's history in the US. Collins "begins with the lost colony of Roanoke and the early southern 'tobacco brides'who came looking for a husband and sometimes - thanks to the stupendously high mortality rate - wound up marrying their way through three or four. Spanning wars, the pioneering days, the fight for suffrage, the Depression, the era of Rosie the Riveter, the civil rights movement, and the feminist rebellion of the 1970s, America's Women describes the way women's lives were altered by dress fashions, medical advances, rules of hygiene, social theories about sex and courtship, and the ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. While keeping her eye on the big picture, Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot, too." Extensive notes, bibliography.… Read More

Washington, D.C.:: Department of Labor,, 1899.. First edition -. Very good.. Disbound article - first printing. While this article traces the evolution of women's clubs from being primarily literary or charitable in nature to becoming more involved in public action in their communities, it is notable for the list of over 1200 such groups. listed by state, with a brief summary of each group's focus. An article disbound from the Bulletin of the Department of Labor, Number 23, July 1899 pp 501-545.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1989.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A fascinating true story of a woman in Spain in 1933, who killed her only daughter - the mother was a feminist who had rejected marriage, selected a renegade priest to father her child, and brought her daughter up to be a prodigy - Translated from the German by Edna McCown. 115 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1979). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription). Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). More than just an account of the horrifying, prolonged torture and murder of 16 year old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis in 1965, this is an attempt to understand how this could happen, and how so many people could be complicit in it. 342 pp plus an appendix with black and white photographs.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. More than just an account of the horrifying, prolonged torture and murder of 16 year old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis in 1965, this is an attempt to understand how this could happen, and how so many people could be complicit in it. 342 pp plus an appendix with black and white photographs.

London:: Longmans, Green & Co.,, 1945.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dj. (prev owner's name.). First printing. According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp

London:: Longmans, Green & Co.,, 1945.. Hardcover first edition -. Near finein turquoise cloth (after allowing for wartime production standards) in a fair only dust jacket with chipping and short closed tears to the edges. . First printing. According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp,

Boston:: Beacon Press,, (1997). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (an unread copy but with a bit of rubbing to the dj).. First printing. A very personal study of women's experiences at one ivy league law school, and a more general look at how law school could better serve the needs of women. Extensive notes, index. 175 pp.

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, (1995.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.. First printing. The eleventh and final volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Contains brief biographies of notable women in American history, arranged alphabetically. List of musuems devoted to women in history and index to the entire series. Frontispiece. 221 pp.

New York:: A. S. Barnes and Company,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj).. First US printing. A detailed look at the trial of Marie Stopes, who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in the British empire. When Dr. Sutherland accused her of taking advantage of the ignorance of the poor, she sued him for libel and defamation. Although she ultimately lost the third and final decision in the House of Lords, she succeeded in bringing the topic of birth control into the open. Includes the transcripts of the trials. Frontispiece portrait. 392 pp.

New York:: Pocket Books,, 2000.. Fine.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother.

New York:: Pocket Books,, 2000.. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (small crease on corner). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother.

New York:: Pocket Books,, (2000.). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Later printing. A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City, Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother. 406 pp.

New York:: Basic Books (HarperCollins),, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.). First printing. "The promises of 'Liberty, equality, and fraternity' did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. The memoirists portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." Based on 80 accounts of the Revolution left by women, from the 16 page testimonial by the wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison to the 10 volume memoirs of Mme de Genlis. Illustrated, notes, index. 308 pp.