Results for: Gender Studies
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.
Braude, Ann.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1989..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 268 pages with illustrations, notes, references, and index.
Price: $25.00
The Subordinated Sex: A History of Attitudes Toward Women. Revised Edition.
Bullough, Vern G., Brenda Shelton, and Sarah Slavin.
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1988..
First printing of revised edition (original was 1973). Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges and some scuffing to covers. 370 pages with endnotes, bibliographical notes, and index.
Price: $20.00
Vatsyayana: The Kama Sutra. Cheikh Nefzaoui: The Perfumed Garden.
Burton, Sir Richard, and F. F. Arbuthnot, translators.
New York, NY: Diadem Books, 1984.
Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with some minor crinkling on head of spine amd light scuffing to covers. ISBN sticker on dj's back cover. 464 pages with illustrations. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size.
Price: $25.00
The History of Sexuality. Volume I : An Introduction.
Foucault, Michel. Translated by Robert Hurley.
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with some small tears and minor chipping along the upper edges of the covers and inner front flap is creased. Dj is also lightly scuffed and browned. Page edges are lightly browned. Pencil notes and underlining in text. 168 pages with few footnotes and index. A study by the noted French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault on the West's obsession with sex and analyzing it.
Price: $45.00
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write.
Hobbs, Catherine, editor.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and light rubbing to edges with fading along spine and some scuffing to covers with minor wrinkling along upper edge of back cover. 343 pages with notes, bibliography, and index. A collection of essays on literacy and its impact on women's lives in nineteenth-century America.
Price: $20.00
Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practices of All Races in All Ages : Ancient and Modern, Oriental and Occidental, Primitive and Civilized.
Iwan Bloch. Translated by Keene Wallis.
New York, NY: Anthropological Press/Falstaff Press, 1933.
Octavo. Cream colored spine with black illustrations and gilt lettering and black cloth covers. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and some scuffing and browning to covers, mainly along spine. Page edges are browned with light foxing. Number 2786 of limited printing of 3000 copies. 246 pages plus xxiii index with footnotes.
Price: $60.00
The Transvestite and the Transsexual : Public Categories and Private Identities.
King, Dave.
Aldershot/Brookfield: Avebury, 1993..
First edition. Good octavo hardcover in green, glossy binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers. Some creasing to front and rear boards. 223 pages with notes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $110.00
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
Kinsey, Alfred C.; Wardell B. Pomeroy; Clyde E. Martin; and Paul H. Gebhard.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953.
Octavo. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has many small tears and some chipping along edges with an inch chip missing on head of spine and some light scuffing to covers. Previous price written in ink and then scribbled over on dj's front inner flap. Page edges are lightly browned. 842 pages with footnotes, figures, tables, bibliography, and index. The classic study of female sexuality by the "father of sexology." Scarce with dust jacket.
Price: $50.00
Female-to-Male Transsexualism: Historical, Clinical and Theoretical Issues.
Lothstein, Leslie Martin.
Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along edges with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with light scuffing to covers and half inch tear on upper edge of front cover. 336 pages with appendix, bibliography, and index.
Price: $15.00
Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press.
Lou Charnon-Deutsch.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Very good quarto-sized hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has slight wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 307 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. Astudy of how women were portrayed in nineteenth-century Spain based on images from popular popular magazines and literature. Special shipping prices for this work due to its size.
Price: $45.00
Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers : The New Woman in the Popular Press.
Marks, Patricia.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 222 pages with illustrations, list of works cited, and index. A look at how British and American periodicals portrayed modern women in the late nineteenth century.
Price: $18.00
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush.
Morgan, Lael.
Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1998.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along edges with some bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 351 pages with illustrations, maps, endnotes, selected bibliography, and index.
Price: $18.00
American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920.
Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider.
New York, NY: Facts on File, 1993.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with heavy bump on lower corner of front panel. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with open tear on lower corner of front cover and some scuffing. 276 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. A study of women's changing roles in early twentieth-century America.
Price: $15.00
Growing Up Male: The Psychology of Masculinity.
Schoenberg, B. Mark.
Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 1993.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and lighter bumping to corners of panels. 148 pages with references and index. A study of the social and psychological forces that shape the definition and development of masculinity.
Price: $60.00
The Body Social: Symbolism, Self and Society.
Synnott, Anthony.
London: Routledge, 1993.
First paperback edition. Good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with some minor scuffing. Some damage to table of contents page and facing page due to spill/stain. Rest of text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. 309 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the various thoughts and theories about the human body, gender, beauty, and the senses.
Price: $20.00
Women in Protest, 1800 - 1850.
Thomis, Malcolm I., and Jeninifer Grimmett.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
Very good octavo hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine and minor scuffing to covers. 166 pages with endnotes and index. A look at women protesters in Great Britain from food riots to the Chartist movement.
Price: $20.00
