Search Results: Women's Studies from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1975. Soft Cover. 472 p., 23.5 cm. Documents the act of rape as an expression of power, not sex. Stock#34177. Vg/ paper.

Wesleyan UP/UP of New England [1992] (second edition).. Soft Cover. 'With a new introduction by the author.' xxxvi, 320 p.; 21.5 cm. Articles on feminism, politics and culture written at, among others, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, 1967-1980. 'Observations on feminism, politics and culture, informed by passion and grounded in rigorous, clear-headed thinking, by 'a writer of genuine intellectual power'' (NYTimes BkRev.) Stock# 30,810. Fine/ wrappers. Feminism; popular culture.

New York : Broadway Books, c2001. Soft Cover. xii, 269 p. : ports. ; 20.5 cm. Table of Contents: Prologue: A Legacy of Virtues; Ch. 1. Timing 19; Ch. 2 Beauty 53; Ch. 3 Cheek 79; Ch. 4 Brilliance 95; Ch. 5 Gaiety (or Joie de Vivre) 133; Ch. 6 Grace 159; Ch. 7 Charm 189; Epilogue: In the End 231; Glossary 251; Bibliography p.259. Notes (p. 259-269) Include bibliographical references. Stock# 43,618. Vg / soft cover.

Chambers/Larousse, Edinburgh [c1996]. Hard Cover. x, 741 p., portrait illustrations; cm. Includes A Women's Chronology: key events and achievements; Women on Women: quotations; Men on Women: quotations. Pictorial dj; minor wear; a few pencil additions & printed insertions; VG. stock#45020.

Urbana, Illinois UP, 1987. "Takes a close look at working-class women in early nineteenth-century New York." Soft Cover. xiv, 301 pages, 23 cm. Good, some underlining and highlighting that went unnoticed in previous handlings of this copy. Stock#34207.

Montreal, Véhicule Press, 1990. Soft Cover. 452 p.,illus., index; 23 cm. Contributors include Chu & Macdonald; Ainley; Gillett on Carrie Derick and Maude Abbott; Pedersen & Phemister on women & photography in Ontario; de la Cour & Sheinin; Stieb, Coulas & Ferguson on women in Ontario pharmacy; Dodd on women in advertising; Hoecker-Drysdale on women sociologists; Rayner-Canhams on Harriet Brooks; Meadowcroft on Alice Wilson; von Baeyer on Isabella Preston; Estey on Margaret Newton; Anand on Cypra Cecilia Krieger; Beaveridge on Blossom Wigdor; Lafortune; Collis; Nevitte, Gibbins & Codding; Beauchamp & McDaniel on women inventors; Scott; Armour; Dagg; Messing; Kranias. Stock# 31,105. Vg/ wrappers.

NY, Viking, 1999. Hard Cover. xviii, 686, [30] p. of plates, illus.; 24 cm. "Profiles the second part of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt through 1938, including the Great Depression, the New Deal and world events preceding World War II." ISBN (10): 0670844985 . Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU279.

Anchor Books, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1980. ‘First editions’.. Hard Cover. '...Needlework background provided by Susan Hill. Designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville with additional technical drawings by Shannon Hogan and special photography by Michael Alexander.' 287 p., glossary/index of terms, photos & illus. throughout, color plates; color pictorial dj worn, 2 nail? holes in rear dj & cover; withal good+. Contents include Struggle, Process, and Vision: The Development of Our Needlework; Embroidering Our Heritage: The Runners as Symbols of Women’s History; The Dinner Party as Sacrament: Our Table Linens and Altar Cloths; The Needleworkers’ Dictionary: Recognizing Our Community. stock#101368

N.Y., International Universities Press, 1949.. Hard Cover. xv, 228 p. 22 cm. First U.S. edition; first pub. London, 1946. A pioneering feminist study which concludes that ideas about "the feminine character" have more to do with social/cultural constructs than biology. Her critique of Freud and his perverse ideas about women was decades before its time. Klein received a PhD in 1944, in wartime England. Stock# 30,813. Good+/ no dj.

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1974]. Hard Cover. xii, 388 p. illus. 22 cm. "Both historical survey and polemic, this book addresses the ways in which Hollywood, and cinema in general, has stereotyped women, but also points to the numerous examples of women subverting and challenging these stereotypes."Stock# 43,738. Vg / dj vg.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1998]. Soft Cover. xv, 296 pages ; 21 cm. Malinda Jenkins, as told in coversations to Jesse Lilienthal ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Paula Mitchell Marks. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1933. Born Malinda Plunkett in Northern Illinois (see the introduction; ignore the cover) she married 3 times and lived an adventurous, independent life in the American West. ISBN(10): 0803276079. Stock#47811. Vg / soft cover.

N.Y. Columbia UP, 1988. Hard Cover. x, 241 p. 23.5 cm. RBL. Nine essays on women as historians and as the subjects of history. RBL. Stock# 30,916. Vg/ dj vg.

Boston, Beacon Press, 1978. Soft Cover. xviii, 485 p., 20 cm. "Mary Daly is a Revolting Hag who holds doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. " Her challenges to Christian myths and culture about women have made many uncomfotable. Stock# 34,217. Vg, gift inscription/ paper.

[Paris] Plon, 1991. Hard Cover. 557, [15] p., illus.; 22 cm. This volume by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge. Translated from the Italian Storia delle donne in Occidente. ISBN (10): 2259023843. Stock#46722. Vg / dj vg.

Abbey Press, NY [1902]. Hard Cover. 238 p.; green cloth covers stamped in gold; spine & front cover spotted, else good+. Chapters include The Parsonage, The Temperance Question, The Woman Question, The Almshouse, The Womans Home Missionary Society, Ellen Rousseau and the Bible, The Womans Foreign Missionary Society, Harry Ford Joins the Church. Stock# 101,151. 20th century American literature, religion in America.

Worcester, Printed [by Samuel B. Manning] at the Spy Office, 1824. Preface signed "L. G. [Lyman Gale] Ward, Jan. 11, 1824". Half-title illustration signed "Bowen". Samuel Brown Manning printed the Massachusetts Spy and Worcester Advertiser from 1824 to 1827. Copyright Aug. 19, 1823 by Lyman Gale. Shoemaker 16838. Hard Cover. viii, [3], 8-156 pages, 1 illus.; 15 cm. Vg/ bound in full leather. stock#NS0249.

NY, Scribner, ©1999. Hard Cover. 350 p., illus.; 25 cm. "Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for LBJ, a man who suffered from extreme mood swings and desperately needed someone to help control his darker impulses." ISBN(10): 0684814803. Stock#NEU335. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan UP [1988]. Soft Cover. xxi, 353 p., index, illus.; 23 cm. "Goes a long way toward dispelling myths about Italian women." Contents include Women, World War I, and Revolution; Women under Fascism; The Postwar Era and the Italian Women's Union, 1945-68; Catholics, Believers, and Feminists; Literature of Feminist Cultural Revolution; The Italian Women's Union, 1968-1984, Other People, and Other Unions; Unedited Feminism-- Differences. Stock#32701x. Fine/ paper.

Middletown, CT, Wesleyan UP, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. xxiv, 353 p., 47 illus., 23.5 cm. "Provides a wealth of material that helps us to understand the cultural and political origins of modern Italian feminism." Stock#32702.Fine/ dj fine.

[Boston] Privately printed, 1923 (Merrymount Press). Hard Cover. 12 pages, portrait; 22 cm. "Six hundred and fifty copies of this appreciation were printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, in November, 1923" --Colophon. Lida Shaw King, 1868-1932, was Dean of Pembroke College at Brown University during a period of great growth. Smith, Merrymount Press (1975 ed.) 574. Vg / no dj. Stock#OB869.