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197778189Washington DC: Union for Radical Political Economics Political Education and Action Project 1977. 12p. 5.5x8.5 inches b&w photos tables very good pamphlet in stapled orange pictorial wraps. Union for Radical Political Economics, Political Education and Action Project unknown books
19003212London: T. Fisher Unwin 1900. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original blue buckram spine and upper board lettered in silver silver-stamped ICW 1899 rondel to upper board. Extremities bruised gently soiled. Dusty top edge some foxing to others. Discrete POI plus Foyles label to front pastedown errata slip at p. v. end matter foxed else clean tight and bright. The Gentlewoman advert printed in blue and red for its ICS Portrait Album of Who's Who at the International Congress of Women laid in. Very good. Unusual in the trade fairly well represented in British and Irish research institutions. A pleasing copy of the second volume of Women in Professions Volume IV of the Countess of Aberdeen's compendious seven volumes of the Transactions of the 1899 International Congress of Women including contributions from May Morris on 'Decorative Needlework' Frank Karslake 'Agent of the Guild of Women Binders' Edith Bradley Warden The Lady Warwick Hostel Kate Lee on 'Experiences of a Woman as Folk-song Collector' Margaret Windeyer on 'Librarianship as a Profession for Women' and Ida Husted Harper on 'The Training of Women Journalists' plus a brief letter from Florence Nightingale; with related ephemera laid in. First convened in Paris in 1878 the International Congress of Women was created to enable transnational connections communication and meetings of women's suffrage movements around the globe. The second Congress was held in London in July 1899 and convened alongside the International Council of Women in conjunction with its 2nd Quinquennial Meeting. The Congress was divided into five sections each with its own particular focus for programming: Education Professional Political Social and Industrial and Legislative. In a piece of magisterial recording the transactions of the Congress were edited by Ishbell Countess of Aberdeen the ICW President and published in seven volumes with the Report of Council Transactions from the ICW's 2nd Quinquennial meeting. This volume includes sections on Nursing Journalism Music Clerical Work Agriculture and Horticulture Handicrafts and Women Librarians. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
189726346Winchester VA: John Towers 1897. Paperback. Very good condition. Mr. Towers speak forcefully for the contribution of women as musicians and composers in his article in "The Musician" of April May and June 1897. Following the article is an alphabetical list of women musicians. He also apologizes to the "hundreds of Women who have done and are still doing excellent work in the field of music all the world over whose names are absent from the following list." This pamphlet memorializes the article and is dedicated to Florence Sutro a gifted musician artist and lawyer in New York City Society. She created the National Federation of Women's Music Clubs and was president of the Woman's department of the Music Teachers National Association. She and her husband Theodore were advocates for women's suffrage. <br /> <br /> Sml. 8vo 30pp printed photo of Florence Sutro. Publishers printed blue paper wrappers title in blue on cover and advertisement for the Estey Piano Rooms on verso. Tipped in at the rear is a one page testimonial of Estey Piano Co by Mrs Sutro. Printed on the last page of text is "By way of proof of the onward march of women in the elysian field of music." and goes on to praise the works of Florence Sutro the president of the newly created Woman's Department of the Music Teachers National Association. Light brown marking on lower edge of cover and first few pages and foredge of wrappers o/w very good condition. OCLC: 14545194. John Towers paperback
1258420449.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
189512074New York: Author's Publishing Co. Very Good. 1895. Softcover. Clean soft pink & blue covers. Text tight clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W portrait photos. An unconventional piece written at a time when most women knew their place & their limits. Two sections: Musical Compositions by women Women in law. Rear cover slightly color faded. Women; B&W Photos ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages . Author's Publishing Co. paperback
194117927New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. c.1941. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped light shelfwear very slight bumping at a couple of corners; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities and the bottom one-third of the spine has gotten scrunched with resulting wrinkling and chipping at base of spine. B&W photo frontispiece "The leading woman penologist of our country presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves." Ms. Monahan the stern yet somehow motherly type to judge from her frontispiece portrait photo had headed up a number of penal institutions including the California State Prison for Women at Tehachapi. At the time of writing she was Superintendent of the Shakopee Minnesota State Women's Reformatory which transitioned to a new facility in 1986 but is still in operation as the state's only women's prison. She dedicates her book "to the hundreds of women prisoners I have known who are now good citizens." The Foreword is by Lewis E. Lawes ex-warden of Sing Sing who was well-known for his own chronicles of penal life "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" et al. Homosexuality among women prisoners is discussed in Chapter XVI "The Sex Problem." Very scarce especially in the jacket. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover books
194190918New York: Ives Washburn 1941. First edition presumed; no earlier dates stated. Hardcover. Very gentle rubbing to spine head and foot loose thread to spine head light soiling to boards very mild bumping to corners small white stain to rear-rear corner very mild rubbing to fore-edge faint water stain to spine light mark to title page and next two front endpapers otherwise very bright pages in tight binding else Very Good. Grey octavo xv 306 pages b&w frontispiece portrait; 22 cm. Lady Justice depicted to front board. Florence Monahan the leading woman penologist of our country Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women Criminals at Shakopee Minnesota presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves. Women Crime -- United States. Contents: Steps to prison -- First lessons in penology -- Who are these women -- Material for melodrama -- Parole: the invisible chain -- Visitors come to Shakopee -- Geneva and trouble -- The bad girls -- Pawns in politics -- The vice scandal -- Inmates are individuals -- Tempest in Tehachapi -- Of recreation and unrest -- Poetry in prison -- Medicine and malingerers -- The sex problem -- Some come back -- It's the law! -- Women who kill -- Where common sense counts -- Catastrophe in California -- Conclusions. Ives Washburn hardcover
194117927New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. c.1941. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped light shelfwear very slight bumping at a couple of corners; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities and the bottom one-third of the spine has gotten scrunched with resulting wrinkling and chipping at base of spine. B&W photo frontispiece "The leading woman penologist of our country presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves." Ms. Monahan the stern yet somehow motherly type to judge from her frontispiece portrait photo had headed up a number of penal institutions including the California State Prison for Women at Tehachapi. At the time of writing she was Superintendent of the Shakopee Minnesota State Women's Reformatory which transitioned to a new facility in 1986 but is still in operation as the state's only women's prison. She dedicates her book "to the hundreds of women prisoners I have known who are now good citizens." The Foreword is by Lewis E. Lawes ex-warden of Sing Sing who was well-known for his own chronicles of penal life "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" et al. Homosexuality among women prisoners is discussed in Chapter XVI "The Sex Problem." Very scarce especially in the jacket. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover
2017Raj-97881713986522017. New. English unknown
2017Raj-97881713986522017. New. English unknown
SLIVCN-9781788402118Cassell Plc (6/2020)
SLIVCN-9781524857561Andrews McMeel Publishing (4/2021)
1985601203Claremont California: Claremont Graduate School 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. Student dissertation. Quarto. 164pp. 14pp. appendix. Red textured paper boards with gilt spine letters. Near fine with some light general wear. Inscribed by Lenz to children's book author Charlotte Zolotow: "May 1985 To Charlotte Whose gentleness and grace inspired this work." An educational dissertation published at Claremont University by Karen Champan Len that studied the productivity of 80 female American children's book author over their careers and features multipage interviews with Elizabeth George Speare Jean Craighead George Adrienne Jones Florence Parry Heidi Lorriaine Henriod Barbara Cohen Natalie Babbitt and Georgess Mc Hargue. Claremont Graduate School hardcover
109696hardcover. very good/very good. 182pp. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1975.<br/><br/> unknown books
197520572NY: McGraw-Hill 1975. Carnegie Commission on Higher Education Sponsored Research Studies. 8vo pp. 182. Paper wraps. Owner's signature on flyleaf o/w VG. A volume of essays by Adrienne Rich Arlie Russell Hochschild Aleta Wallach and Florence Howe. All concern aspects of education as it relates to women. McGraw-Hill unknown books
191811437New York: The Macmillian Co. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Brown cloth gilt some soiling light fraying at top and bottom of back strip; ex lib. ; illustrated. . The Macmillian Co. hardcover books
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30500189like new. unknown
2018x-331972181XSpringer 2018. Hardcover. New. 126 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. Springer hardcover
A9780192843098Hardback. New. Examines the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-1985 to shed new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary' and demonstrate the ways in which gender roles working-class lifestyles and coalfield communities changed across post-war Britain. hardcover
0484487744.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1330939352.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2014x-3319093053Springer Verlag 2014. Hardcover. New. 2015 edition. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
2016x-3319343394Springer Verlag 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 188 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.43 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
1432536443.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
