ROLLERDERBY: 17 Issues
Dover, New Hampshire: Lisa Carver, 1990-1999. Wraps. Reprints of issues 2 and 3 (1993), with original copies of issues 7, 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, and 25. Rollerderby..... More
Women's Studies
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THE ADVANCE OF WOMAN: From the Earliest Times to the Present
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip tipped in on the front flyleaf. From the library of journalist Elizabeth Brough (1867-1943), with her signature to the..... More
WINNING THE VOTE: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement
Santa Cruz, California: American Graphic Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Special Edition, numbered (no limitation stated) and signed by Cooney. Published on the 85th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and in collaboration..... More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE "FEMALE GENIUS"
An undated, two-page letter handwritten by Anne Seymour Damer at her London house, No. 27 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, to Mrs. Alexander Baillie (Marianne Baillie, née Wathen, 1788-1831). Presumably written at the end of..... More
VICTORIES OF FOUR DECADES: A History of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 1883-1924
Los Angeles: Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 1966. Wraps. A reprint of this official history, which was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the WCTU’s Southern California organization. Includes profiles of the..... More
CARRY A. NATION: Retelling the Life
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Grace on the title page to Paul B. Scott, a noted temperance collector and former President of the Board of Trustees..... More
WOMEN ACCORDING TO MEN: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women
Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "...elucidates what the rules for women were during this time, while also discussing health habits, household remedies, theories on conception, the care of children, the making..... More
"THE SUFFRAGETTES WERE BESIEGING THE DOORS OF PARLIAMENT"
1909. Handwritten diary recalling a 1909 European trip made by Russell Hawes Kettell of Massachusetts with his parents and older sister Margaret. Kettell was 18 when they sailed on the steamer Saxonia to Liverpool. In..... More
"TYPEWRITER FIRM RINGS BELL WITH WOMEN'S LIB"
1972. A small archive of photographic negatives with contact sheets showing a protest in New York of the headquarters of the Olivetti typewriter headquarters in 1972. The protest was a response to an unfortunate advertising..... More
GENDER EQUITY FOR WOMEN PROFESSORS AT RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
Barbara Brown Packer, 1990. Hardcover. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Quarto. Original..... More
I KEPT MY KNEES CROSSED: The Sex Life of a State Capitol, An Expose - Both Grim and Gay
New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1949. Hardcover. Second printing. "...the somewhat unorthodox account of the pungent doings in some state governments as observed by a civil service stenographer." Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt..... More
THE LAW OF HUSBAND AND WIFE: Compiled for Popular Use
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. "A strong demand has been made on me for such a work as this … and from no source has the call been louder or more..... More
A HISTORY OF THE WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, Written by Request of the State Convention of 1911
Oakland, California: West Coast Printing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers the establishment and organization of the WCTU in the Golden State in great detail, as well as its efforts following the 1906 San Francisco..... More
THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
A collection of reports, campaign literature, newsletters, and other literature produced in the early 1970s as part of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia. Among the organizations represented are the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Women’s..... More
IS NOTRE DAME A PLACE FOR WOMEN?
This question is posed on an original poster, produced by the university’s admissions department, announcing that women would be admitted in 1972 for the first time since the Catholic university’s founding in 1842. A historic..... More
WYOMING AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE. Speech of William M. Springer, of Illinois, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 27, 1890.
Washington, D.C. House of Representatives, 1890. Scarce anti-suffrage piece, expressing arguments in support of disenfranchising women, as well as Mormons. Springer (1836-1903), a Democrat, opposed the admission of the Territory of Wyoming to the Union..... More
WOMEN MODERNISTS AND FASCISM
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "...examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Göring and Pétain. Within their own artistic..... More
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