Search Results: Women's Studies from Charity Bookstall

Ashland, Oregon: Tobacco Road Press, 2012. Signed and inscribed (first name only) on fep. Flat signed (full name) on title page. Stated First Edition. 4to size trade paperback; more than 12 color illustrations throughout, some full page, plus some color decorations and charts. From back cover: "The 4 Seasons in 4 Weeks approach is a symbolic journey through the 28 days of the female hormonal experience. It reveals a logical and holistic blueprint for balance, creativity, rejuvenation, and personal empowerment - a remarkable pattern that can be tapped into throughout a woman's lifetime. Using language and images that are clear, comfortable and positive, this exquisite book sheds light on the true nature of the organic feminine rhythm and allows both women and men to embrace it with grace and ease." Edgewear and worn corners of front cover. There are several teeny spots on outside pages and in the very far margin of the first three pages. . Signed by Author. First. Trade… Read More

New York: Citadel Press, 2007. Advance Uncorrected Proof. First Edition. 260 bright, white pages in great condition except for two previously turned page corners. The author is a descendant of the first woman to circle the world on a bicycle. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefit charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Excellent/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof.

Manchester, Massachusetts: Sharksmouth Press, 1995. 172 pages with black and white photographs throughout. Sunned bands on photo illustrated front cover. Light soil to front cover and tiny spots in the margin of first three pages. 3rd printing. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. 3rd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Curtis, Mrs. Greely & Isabella Curtis. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Connecticut: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends , 1993. Signed and inscribed by author on fep/half title page. Revised Edition. 245 pages; edgewear. From back: "Loaded with practical suggestions, presented in a lively style, (the author) succeeds in puncturing many myths about aging...- Jane Porcino, PhD." Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Revised. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Windhoek, Namibia: Women's Leadership Centre, 2005. Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Ikhaxas; illustrations including the front cover by Inatu Indongo Private Press; 8vo size trade paperback with color illustrated cover; 212 pages with a few black and white illustrations From back: "This book examines the status of women's human rights in Namibia today through the lens of the everyday lived realities of women in (the) country. Written by women from across Namibian, many of them first-time writers, the stories and poems unravel the silences that allow the manifold daily violations of girls' and women's bodies, minds and souls to continue with impunity." Edgewear, rubbing to back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Indongo, Inatu. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 382 pages including index. The book is designed in three parts with 351 topics: Feminine Imagery of God Woman in Hebrew-Jewish Tradition Woman in Christian Tradition Edgewear and very light wear to covers. . First. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

National First Ladies Library, 2003. 4to size softcover with extended inner flaps; 183 glossy pages with black and white and color illustrations throughout. Edgewear, some scratches on back cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Rolley & Reynolds, Inc., 1961. 416 bright pages. Stated First Edition. Some rubbing to jacket. From jacket: "In this extraordinary novel, women play an important role in pioneering the new Space Age economy...women should get top influential spots on all political tickets..." Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. 510 pages Book is divided into the following sections: The Social Construction of Authoritative Knowledge in Childbirth Intracultural Variations in Authoritative Knowledge About Birth: Biomedical Hegemony and Women's Choices Intercultural Variations in Authoritative Knowledge About Birth: Hierarchy, Community and the Local Social Ground Fighting the System: Creating and Maintaining Alternative Models of Authoritative Knowledge Viable Indigenous Systems of Authoritative Knowledge: Continuity in the Face of Change From back: "This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extend and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions taken - highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give… Read More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. one of the Yale Judaica Series, Volume XIX; translated from the Hebrew by Isaac Klein; Leon Nemoy, editor; Saul Lieberman and Harry A. Wolfson, associate editors. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, bright gilt titles on book spine From jacket: The Book of Women...consists of five treatises dealing with the laws on marriage, divorce, levirate marriage and the virgin maiden, and the wayward women. Many of these regulations are roughly comparable to modern family law. In compiling the treatises, Maimonides augmented the basic stipulations of the Talmud with subsequent legal developments and included laws that had long been inoperative..." Jacket has edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine, a half inch tear to top front of jacket. Heel of spine is bumped underneath jacket; there is a small tacky area on fep where sticker was removed. We noted small, light, penciled check marks in the margins on at least 20 pages. . Cloth.… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. From jacket: "(this book) esposes the popular, but misleading, ideology of independence that has turned women away from intimacy even as it has taken them into the boardrooms of corporate America." 222 bright, white pages. We note penciled underlining and marginalia on at least 41 pages. Light wear, light soil to jacket. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. In average used condition: edgewear; bump to bottom, worn corners; 225 bright, white pages; we note ink underlining or brackets on at least 55 pages. From back: This study challenges the uncritical equation of advancement with success...(the author) reveals the strategies that experienced waitresses employ to improve their own positions rather than aspiring toward management." Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Durham, North Carolina: Stone Circles, 2000. 189 pages. Light wear and a slight curl to corners. Inscription on dedication page (might be author's -first name only - signature.) Two teeny spots on fep. Covers, through first hand stories, topics of depression, addiction and abuse, art, education and adventure, relationships and spirituality; children, sex and abortion, choosing work, more. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. 8vo size trade paperback; 240 pages with some black and white illustrations From back of book: "A contemporary of Columbus noted 'those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives.' This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order. Honor has many faces. To a freed black woman in Brazil it proscribed spousal abuse and permitted her to petition the Church for permission to leave her husband. To a high church official charged with sodomy in Alto Peru, honor signified the privileges and legal exceptions available to those of his background and social position. These nine original essays assess the role and importance man and women of all races and social classes accorded honor throughout colonial Latin America." Edgewear, bumped bottom corner. We noted yellow/orange highlighting or brackets on at least 54 pages.… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2015. International Edition, First Edition with full numberline. Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton 8vo size trade paperback; 244 pages including index plus section of color photographs on glossy stock. From back: "Through interviews with a network of more than 70 trailblazing women, (this book) show women how to accelerate their growing economic power and combine it with purpose to find both success and meaning... Women control the lion's share of purchasing power... Women are using their power for purpose, redefining what power and success mean in the process." Edgewear, creased top corner of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Archetype, 2017. 8vo size trade paperback; 276 pages. Covers are unique to proof. Front cover states Uncorrected Proof. Back cover also stated Uncorrect Proof, provides a lengthy overview of the book, a one sentence biography of the author, and details of the finished book. Inside back cover details publicity plan. While pages are allocated for an index, the index is incomplete in the proof. From back cover: "When Betty Robinson assumed her starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish in as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered while running for a train... mere months before her Olympic debut." Edgewear, bumped and creased bottom corner of front cover. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. 334 pages. We note one previously folded page corner and some wear and creasing to covers. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Edbury Press, 1997. British Edition. First Edition with full numberline. 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching vintage photo illustrated dust jacket; 144 pages with vintage black and white advertisements From jacket: "a fascinating look at how housework and life in the home have changed over the last 75 years.... In reality, the social changes brought about by the First World War meant that servants were in short supply and many women found themselves, for the first time, forced to take on responsibility for cleaning, cooking and laundry in their own homes. Faced with these unaccustomed tasks, they needed advice on how to copy, and Good Housekeeping (magazine) provided it... (The author) gives a decade-by-decade description of the major advance in products and machines which have had such a huge impact on our family life and leisure... This glimpse into the homes of the past and the present contain many nostalgic reminders of household goods once taken for granted,and now all… Read More

Timbuktu Labs, 2016. First Edition, 3rd printing 8vo size hardcover with attached red ribbon bookmark; 212 pages with color illustrations. Colorful constellation endpapers and bookplate waiting to be filled in on fep. From back: "(This book) reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena William. Illustrated by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe, this is the most-funded original book in the history of crowdfunding." Contents include: Ada Lovelace Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Ann Makosinski Astrid Lindgren The Bronte Sisters Maria Montessori Marie Curie Maya Angelou Nellie Bly Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mae Jemison Margaret Thatcher Florence Nightingale Helen Keller Hillary Clinton Isabel Allende Xian Zhang Bumped bottom corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 462 pages. Chocolate brown endpapers. Signed on half title page. First Edition with full numberline. From jacket: The creator of the present-day Cosmopolitan, whose passionate help-yourself credo is the bible of millions of readers in the Untied States and 17 other countries, has put together from her own hard-won experience, with wit, wisdom, and a good measure of uncommon sense, everything she has learned over the years about men and women, sex and marriage, work and love, health and money... Reading Having It All is like having Helen Gurley Brown as your 24-hour-day advisor, sharing with you the wisdom of a lifetime, helping, scolding, inspiring - a warm, supportive and un-shockable friend who's been through it all herself and is convinced that you too can have the success and fulfillment you deserve, even if you're not starting out with much." Edgewear to jacket, bumped head and heel of spine, light mark on… Read More