On this page you can read about the 68 books related to Women's Studies that we have catalogued, and available at Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire on September 1, 2007. And, it is easy to order any of them. Thank you, RAY
1. Abbott, Edith, WOMEN IN INDUSTRY: A STUDY IN AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Arno & The New York Times, New York, 1969, 409pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover), First published in 1910., (Order No: 37412 ), $30.00
2. Adam, Ruth, A WOMAN'S PLACE: 1910-1975, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, (1977) 1st Amer, 18 B&W plates, 224pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393056228 The author describes the extraordinary course of women's social history in Great Britain from the time of the suffragettes to our own era., (Order No: 14213 ), $7.50
3. Arnold, Eleanor (editor and project director), VOICES OF AMERICAN HOMEMAKERS, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1985) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 295pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0253207991 A book about women, family values, and making a life in rural America in the first half of this century. It distills some 200 oral histories collected from 37 states organized around the essential rites and functions of life., (Order No: 45140 ), $4.50
4. Arnold, Eleanor (edited by), VOICES OF AMERICAN HOMEMAKERS, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1993) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 295pp, very good, wraps (softcover) owner's inscription, ISBN 0253207991 "A book about women, family values, and making a life in rural America in the first half of this century.", (Order No: 46500 ), $4.00
5. Baker, Liva, I'M RADCLIFFE! FLY ME! THE SEVEN SISTERS AND THE FAILURE OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, (1976) 1st ptg, 246pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0025063103, (Order No: 6244 ), $7.50
6. Banner, Lois W., IN FULL POWER: AGING WOMEN, POWER, AND SEXUALITY - A HISTORY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 422pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394579437, (Order No: 48965 ), $5.00
7. Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; and, da Costa, Maria Velho (translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane), THE THREE MARIAS: NEW PORTUGUESE LETTERS, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1975 1st ed, 432pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385018533 The explosive book, about the passions and compassions of women, that resulted in the controversial trial, and became an international sensation., (Order No: 23006 ), $6.50
8. Bell, Ralcy Husted, MEMOIRS & MISTRESSES: COLORS AND ODORS OF LOVE, William Faro, Inc., NY, (1931), 370pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 4327 ), $12.50
9. Blewett, Mary H., WE WILL RISE IN OUR MIGHT: WORKINGWOMEN'S VOICES FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1991), B&W illustrations, 221pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801495377, (Order No: 39088 ), $7.50
10. Daly, Mary, PURE LUST: ELEMENTAL FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, (1984), 473pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, ISBN 0807015040 In this work, Daly summons women to break through the patriarchal barriers of the State of Lechery., (Order No: 33232 ), $14.50
11. Dangler, Jamie Faricellia, HIDDEN IN THE HOME: THE ROLE OF WAGED HOMEWORK IN THE MODERN WORLD-ECONOMY, State Univ. of New York Pr., Albany, NY, (1994) 1st ptg, B&W tables, 225pp, very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0791421295 A study of homework in the electronics industry in the central part of New York State., (Order No: 38661 ), $14.50
12. De Pauw, Linda Grant and Hunt, Conover, REMEMBER THE LADIES: WOMEN IN AMERICA 1750-1815, The Viking Press, New York, (1976), B&W and color illustrations, 168pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670593621 Catalogue of the exhibition held in 1976. Contents include: Love and Marriage, Motherhood, Sickness and Death, Domesticity, Women at Work, Women and Religion, Women at War, Accomplished Women, Fashionable Ladies, Creative Women, President's Ladies, Liberty and Equality, Bibliography., (Order No: 33395 ), $22.50
13. Dingwall, Eric John, THE AMERICAN WOMAN: AN HISTORICAL STUDY, Rinehart & Co., Inc., New York, (1957) 1st ed, 309pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The lively, controversial, and stinging conclusions of a British sexual anthropologiest who unflinchingly looks at that peculiar breed of homo sapiens - the American Woman., (Order No: 37408 ), $10.00
14. du Plessix Gray, Francine (warmly inscribed by the author), SOVIET WOMEN: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE, Doubleday, New York, (1990) 1st ed, 213pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385247575 In these pages we hear women from Riga to Irkutsk complain about the double burdens of home and career with bitterness and frequent anger, and with a candor only recently made possible by glasnost., (Order No: 33261 ), $12.50
15. Eisenstein, Sarah, GIVE US BREAD BUT GIVE US ROSES: WORKING WOMEN'S CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1890 TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1983), 207pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0710094795, (Order No: 38770 ), $10.00
16. Evans, Richard J., THE FEMINISTS - WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE, AMERICA AND AUSTRALASIA 1840-1920, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, (1979) rev ed, 266pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0064920445 This book is an attempt to bring together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all over the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries., (Order No: 50421 ), $5.00
17. Evans, Sara M., BORN FOR LIBERTY: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA, The Free Press, New York, (1989), B&W illustrations, 386pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 0029029902, (Order No: 4332 ), $5.00
18. Fowlkes, Diane L. and McClure, Charlotte S. (editors), FEMINIST VISIONS: TOWARD A TRANSFORMATION OF THE LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM, Univ. of Alabama Press, University, AL, (1984), B&W illustrations, 224pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0817301720 The contents of this book were selected from a conference, "A Fabric of Our Own Making": Southern Scholars on Women, held March 4-7, 1981, at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of this book, as was that of the conference, is to contribute to the self-education of scholars/teachers in the disciplines who are striving to bring gender-based equity to the liberal arts curriculum in their colleges and universities., (Order No: 16701 ), $8.00
19. Fraser, Antonia, THE WARRIOR QUEENS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 383pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394549392 From Britain's Queen Boadicea to Elizabeth I, from Catherine the Great to the twentieth-century triumvirate of Meir, Gandhi and Thatcher--the paradox, the politics, the legend and the lives of the sovereign women who have led their nations in war., (Order No: 20895 ), $7.50
20. Frey, Sylvia R. and Morton, Marian J., NEW WORLD, NEW ROLES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF WOMEN IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1986) 1st ptg, 246pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0313248966 A book principally about women. Its cast of characters includes the "huswife" and the midwife, the spinster and the widow, the servant and the slave., (Order No: 46202 ), $20.00
21. Friedlander, Judith; Cook, Blanche Wiesen; Kessler-Harris, Alice; and, Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, WOMEN IN CULTURE AND POLITICS: A CENTURY OF CHANGE, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1986) 1st ptg, 394pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0253313287 These papers are about the role that sexuality and its regulation and control play in the struggle for economic and physical survival., (Order No: 37582 ), $14.50
22. Furness, Clifton Joseph (edited by), THE GENTEEL FEMALE: AN ANTHOLOGY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931, B&W ill., 306pp, good, faded purple cloth (hardcover) dustjacket cut and laid in, Examination of the completely forgotten minor literature of the first half of the nineteenth century reveals the Victorian female as somewhat different from the ordinary conception of her. This anthology of selections from obscure but once popular books--novels, gift-books, model-letter-writers, poetry--presents her as she really was, in all her variety., (Order No: 34886 ), $15.00
23. George, Carol V. R. (edited by), "REMEMBER THE LADIES": NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1976) 2nd ptg, 201pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0815601107 "Essays in Honor of Nelson Manfred Blake" reflecting the influence of Professor Blake's eagerness to explore new areas of history., (Order No: 37409 ), $6.00
24. Ginzberg, Ruth Szold, CHILDREN AND OTHER STRANGERS, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, (1992), 108pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, ISBN 0887384455 A personal view of modern women who now have choices concerning marriage, child-rearing, and families. It is written from the perspective and experiences of a mother of three who belongs to the generation of women who came of age in the 1940s and who had little choice but to follow the socially perscribed path of domesticity., (Order No: 37736 ), $12.50
25. Goldsmith, Barbara, OTHER POWERS: THE AGE OF SUFFRAGE, SPIRITUALISM, AND THE SCANDALOUS VICTORIA WOODHULL, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998 1st ed, B&W ill., 535pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394555368 A combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again., (Order No: 36055 ), $10.00
26. Groneman, Carol and Norton, Mary Beth (edited by), "TO TOIL THE LIVELONG DAY": AMERICA'S WOMEN AT WORK, 1780-1980, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1987), 313pp, very good+, clay colored cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 080141847X The articles in this book have been selected from among hundreds of papers presented at the Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, held at Smith College, June 1-3, 1984., (Order No: 36536 ), $20.00
27. Hawks, Joanne and Skemp, Sheila L. (edited by), SEX, RACE, AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SOUTH, Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, (1983), 140pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0878051937 Essays by Jean E. Friedman, Dolores Janiewski, Martha H. Swain, Sharon Harley, Anne Goodwyn Jones, and Anne Firor Scott., (Order No: 41249 ), $8.50
28. Hayden, Dolores, THE GRAND DOMESTIC REVOLUTION: A HISTORY OF FEMINIST DESIGNS FOR AMERICAN HOMES, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND CITIES, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1981), B&W illustrations, 367pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0262081083 Reveals innovative plans and visionary strategies of the women who developed the theory and practice of what the author calls "material feminism" in pursuit fo economic independence and social equality. The material feminists' ambitious goals of socialized housework and child care meant revolutionizing the American home and creating community services., (Order No: 37413 ), $15.00
29. Heffernan, Nancy Coffey and Stecker, Ann Page, SISTERS OF FORTUNE, Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH, (1993) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 290pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 087451651X Being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush., (Order No: 42057 ), $4.00
30. Herrmann, Claudine (translated and with an introduction and notes by Nancy Kline), THE TONGUE SNATCHERS, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1989), 146pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803223463 This volume illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality., (Order No: 33228 ), $12.00
31. Jeffrey, Julie Roy (consulting editor Eric Foner), FRONTIER WOMEN: THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1840-1880, Hill and Wang, New York, (1979) 1st ed, 240pp, good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0809001411 This volume details the diversity of white women's experiences., (Order No: 41662 ), $5.00
32. Kenneally, James J., WOMEN AND AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS, Eden Press Women's Pubs., St. Albans, VT, (1978), 240pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0888310269 Largely ignored in traditional accounts, the role of women in labor history has created a long-lasting quandry for the American Trade union movement. To look at this, the author focuses on a variety of issues., (Order No: 37579 ), $12.50
33. Kennedy, Susan Estabrook, IF ALL WE DID WAS TO WEEP AT HOME: A HISTORY OF WHITE WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN AMERICA, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1979) 1st ptg, 331pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253191548 Examines the protean identity of white working-class women, their often courageous struggles for recognition and survival, and their interactions with other elements of American society., (Order No: 37414 ), $20.00
34. Kessler-Harris, Alice, OUT TO WORK: A HISTORY OF WAGE-EARNING WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, (1982) 6th ptg, 400pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0195033531, (Order No: 37576 ), $6.00
35. Kupper, Susan J., SURNAMES FOR WOMEN: A DECISION-MAKING GUIDE, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, (1990), 147pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0899504965 This book, based in part on a questionaire filled out by hundreds of women nationwide, is an invaluable guide both for those facing a name change and for those interested in or curious about the feminist issues involved., (Order No: 15548 ), $8.00
36. Labarge, Margaret Wade, WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL LIFE - A SMALL SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, Hamish Hamilton, London, (1987) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 271pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription, ISBN 0241118093 Medieval women, with some notable exceptions, have generally categorized in terms sete by their male contemporaries. This study looks closely at the more complex but also more interesting reality., (Order No: 48607 ), $7.50
37. Lasch, Christopher (edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn), WOMEN AND THE COMMON LIFE: LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND FEMINISM, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1997) 1st ed, 196pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), review press release laid in, ISBN 0393040186 The author's daughter presents her father's controversial essays on love, marriage, and feminism. According to Lasch, the encroachment of professional expertise intrudes into personal human interaction, and it is this deterioration of the common life, of intimacy, and of our imaginations, that unifies the essays in this book., (Order No: 14964 ), $7.00
38. Latour, Anny & Dent, A. A. (translated by), UNCROWNED QUEENS (REINES SANS COURONNE): WOMEN WHO INFLUENCED MANNERS AND MOULDED THE SOCIETY THEY LIVED IN, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, (1970), 11 B&W ill., 180pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 046007721X The book opens with a discussion of the role of women in medieval Anglo-French society, then turns to the Italian Renaissance, moves onto a detailed survey of the French literary salon and of the English 'Blue-Stocking' movement. Following this are studies of Rahel Varnhagen, mainspring of the European Romantic movement; the Princess Belgiojoso, solitary feminine figure in the Risorgimento; Juliette Adam, founder of La Nouvelle Revue; and Gertrude Stein, a poet of startling and unmatched originality and a liberating influence also on the visual arts., (Order No: 13792 ), $12.50
39. Lewis, Alfred Allan & Berns, Barrie, THREE OUT OF FOUR WIVES: WIDOWHOOD IN AMERICA, Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc, New York, (1975) 2nd ptg, 216pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0025705008 This book is an angry expose-the result of hundreds of interviews and extensive research into the plight of the American widow. Her problems are widespread: financial insecurity and a lack of marketable skills, uncertainty about the future, and a society geared to couples. The authors offer valuable information about the realities and possibilities of life alone., (Order No: 10679 ), $3.00
40. Mamonova, Tatyana (edited by) (assisted by Sarah Matilsky; foreword by Robin Morgan), WOMEN AND RUSSIA: FEMINIST WRITINGS FROM THE SOVIET UNION, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, (1984) 1st ptg, B&W ill., 273pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807067083 Printed clandestinely and smuggled out of Russia, this remarkable samizdat collection gives the most comprehensive picture of women's lives in Soviet society., (Order No: 33229 ), $15.00
41. Markus, Julia, ACROSS AN UNTRIED SEA: DISCOVERING LIVES HIDDEN IN THE SHADOW OF CONVENTION AND TIME, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 335pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679445994 This volume retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers--celebrated in their day but forgotten in ours., (Order No: 30452 ), $6.00
42. Meyer, Alfred G., THE FEMINISM AND SOCIALISM OF LILY BRAUN, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1985) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 235pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253321697 The remarkable life of the maverick German socialist feminist Lily Braun (1865-1916) and the relevance of her ideas to the women's movement of our own day emerge with strength and sensitivity from this first book-length study in English of Braun's life and thought., (Order No: 22834 ), $7.50
43. Meyer, Donald, SEX AND POWER: THE RISE OF WOMEN IN AMERICA, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, AND ITALY, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1987) 1st ed, 721pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0819551538 The story of the relationship between economic and political power and the rise of women from subordinate status in four countries-America, Russia, Sweden, and Italy., (Order No: 11919 ), $9.50
44. Ogden, Annegret S., THE GREAT AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE: FROM HELPMATE TO WAGE EARNER, 1776-1986, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1986) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 257pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0313247528 In this innovative historical survey, Annegret S. Ogden addresses the need for the modern housewife to adapt to the additional role of wage earner., (Order No: 46204 ), $15.00
45. Pienkos, Angela and Pienkos, Donald, A HISTORY OF THE POLISH WOMEN'S ALLIANCE OF AMERICA - "IN THE IDEALS OF WOMEN IS THE STRENGTH OF A NATION", East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, B&W ill. follow text, 282pp of text, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0880335300, (Order No: 40744 ), $35.00
46. Pink, Sarah, WOMEN AND BULLFIGHTING: GENDER, SEX AND THE CONSUMPTION OF TRADITION, Berg, Oxford, UK, (1997), B&W illustrations, 233pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 1859739563 Investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity., (Order No: 38206 ), $30.00
47. Polster, Miriam F., EVE'S DAUGHTERS: THE FORBIDDEN HEROISM OF WOMEN, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, (1992) 3rd ptg, 207pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1555424643 Seeking to recast the archaic image of invincible male heroism, the author proposes a more healthy and realistic definition that recognizes the heroism of women. She provides a positive approach to the psychology of women, explaining why we must learn to appreciate women heroes who have previously gone unremarked and empower ourselves by recognizing our own heroic acts., (Order No: 38107 ), $8.50
48. Pond, Jean Sarah, BRADFORD: A NEW ENGLAND ACADEMY, Bradford Academy Alumnae, Bradford, MA, 1930, 67 B&W illustrations, 368pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, "The History of Bradford Academy is a significant example of the advance of women's education from the three R's to the Junior College." Limited to 1,000 copies., (Order No: 7667 ), $15.00
49. Putnam, Emily James & Mirsky, Jeannette (foreword by), THE LADY: STUDIES OF CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT PHASES OF HER HISTORY, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1970), 323pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226685624 Originally published in 1910, Emily James Putnam observes the lady in eight periods covering two and a half millenia: the Greek Lady, the Roman Lady, the Lady Abbess, the Lady of the Castle, the Lady of the Renaissance, the Lady of the Salon, the Lady of the Blue Stockings, and the Lady of the Slave States., (Order No: 13536 ), $5.00
50. Rothman, Sheila M., WOMAN'S PROPER PLACE - A HISTORY OF CHANGING IDEALS AND PRACTICES, 1870 TO PRESENT, Basic Books, Inc., Publ., New York, (1978) 1st ptg, 322pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0465092039, (Order No: 47870 ), $4.00
51. Royden, A. Maude, WOMEN AT THE WORLD'S CROSSROADS, The Womans Press, New York, 1922 1st ed, B&W frontis, 139pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover), Contents include: The World at the Crossroads; Christian Patriotism; Woman's Service to the Race; Woman's Service to Theology; The Law of Life; Love, the Fulfilling of the Law., (Order No: 40290 ), $25.00
52. Scanlon, Jennifer and Cosner, Shaaron, AMERICAN WOMEN HISTORIANS, 1700S-1990S: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, Greewood Press, Westport, CT, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 271pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0313296642 This work provides biographical and bibliographical portraits of roughly two hundred women who have practiced the craft of history in the United States., (Order No: 46208 ), $25.00
53. Scharff, Virginia, TAKING THE WHEEL: WOMEN AND THE COMING OF THE MOTOR AGE, The Free Press, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 219pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0029281350 Recalling a colorful period of car culture and history, Scharff offers a provocative look at the effect of new technologies on a nation's life-styles and on its citizens' self-images and roles., (Order No: 17705 ), $10.00
54. Scott, Anne Firor (edited by), THE AMERICAN WOMAN: WHO WAS SHE?, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1971) 1st ptg, 182pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0130322431 Tracing women's development in the United States since the Civil War, Ann Firor Scott, in this volume, shows how the refusal of many women to accept a prescribed "female" role has been an important force behind much twentieth-century social change., (Order No: 35983 ), $4.00
55. Seller, Maxine Schwartz (edited by), IMMIGRANT WOMEN, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1981), 347pp, good+, wraps (softcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 087722191X Documents the story of the millions of European, Asian, Hispanic, and Black women who left their homes to come to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., (Order No: 41661 ), $4.50
56. Sharpe, Pamela (edited by), WOMEN'S WORK - THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE 1650-1914, Arnold / Oxford Univ. Press, London / New York, (1998), 368pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0340676965, (Order No: 42017 ), $8.50
57. Sherr, Lynn and Kazickas, Jurate, THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S GAZETTEER, Bantam Books, New York, (1976), B&W illustrations, 271pp, index, good+, wraps (softcover), review press release laid in, ISBN 0553010417 "A sourcebook of achievements, outrages, accolades, victories, defeats--The first state-by-state celebration of women, places and events that made history.", (Order No: 16044 ), $5.00
58. Sigerman, Harriet (edited by), THE COLUMBIA DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN SINCE 1941, Columbia University Press, New York, (2003) 1st ptg, 690pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231116985 This collection of documents seeks to chronicle the exciting and tumultuous recent history of American women, beginning with World War II, and the lasting reverberations of the greater employment opportunities for women created by the war effort., (Order No: 39138 ), $65.00
59. Smith, Cyril J., TRADITION OF EVE, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX, (1970), B&W illustrations, 296pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0872018792 According to this book, a woman can best be understood and can best comprehend her own status in our culture when seen as a product of her historical past and as one destined to sustained future progress., (Order No: 17420 ), $7.50
60. Stevenson, Mary Huff, DETERMINANTS OF LOW WAGES FOR WOMEN WORKERS, Praeger Special Studies, New York, (1984), 225pp, very good+, black cloth (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0030695295 Part of the "Landmark Dissertations in Women's Studies Series.", (Order No: 37425 ), $40.00
61. Tax, Meredith, THE RISING OF THE WOMEN: FEMINIST SOLIDARITY AND CLASS CONFLICT, 1880-1917, Monthly Review Press, New York, (1980) 1st ptg, 332pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0853455481 The story of the intersections of socialist, feminist, and trade union organizing between 1880 and World War I, a critical period in US history when masses of women entered industry for the first time., (Order No: 37480 ), $15.00
62. Tentler, Leslie Woodcock, WAGE-EARNING WOMEN: INDUSTRIAL WORK AND FAMILY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1930, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979, 266pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195026276 Explodes the myth that jobs outside the home for this generation of women led to women's emancipation., (Order No: 37577 ), $10.00
63. Van Horn, Susan Householder (introduction by Peter N. Stearns), WOMEN, WORK, AND FERTILITY, 1900-1986, New York University Press, New York, 1988, 232pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814787592 In this study, the author captures the basic features and the inevitable complexity of the women's revolution., (Order No: 48589 ), $12.50
64. van Voris, Jacqueline, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT - A PUBLIC LIFE, The Feminist Press, New York, (1987) 1st ptg, 307pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0935312633 First modern scholarly biography of suffragist and peace activist Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)., (Order No: 47545 ), $8.50
65. Ware, Susan, MODERN AMERICAN WOMEN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, The Dorsey Press, Chicago, IL, (1989) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 468pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0256071179, (Order No: 37574 ), $7.50
66. Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, COLONIAL DAYS & DAMES, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1895, ill. by E. S. Holloway, 248pp, good, decorated blue cloth (hardcover), First published in 1894. Author gathered recollections to "give glimpses of social and domestic life North and South" of Colonial times., (Order No: 10704 ), $9.50
67. Whitbread, Helena (editor), NO PRIEST BUT LOVE: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARIES OF ANNE LISTER, 1824-1826, New York University Press, Washington Square, NY, (1992), 36 B&W ill., 1 map, 227pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814750761 Anne Lister arrived in the autumn of 1824 in Paris, and it is through her amazingly frank and detailed journals that we are able to enter into her adventurous life. The chronicling of her passionate affairs with other women would have startled her contemporaries., (Order No: 13456 ), $12.50
68. Willmuth, Mary E. and Holcomb, Lillian (editors), WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: FOUND VOICES, The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, (1993), 211pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 1562044771 These essays document, in painful detail, the abuses suffered on the bodies of women with disabilities, including father incest, institutional sexual assault, medical abuse, and cultural mutilation., (Order No: 39370 ), $45.00