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ID:  6276: Anderson, Bonnie S., and Zinsser, Judith P.  A History of Their Own.  Women in Europe from Prehistory to the PresentVolume I.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1989. (ISBN:  0060914521)  Second paperback printing.  Orig. pub. 1988.  Light tanning, name/place/date on ffep, o/w near fine soft cover. $5.00  SOLD 4 2 17 dealer

ID:  6277:   Anderson, Bonnie S., and Zinsser, Judith P.  A History of Their Own.  Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.  Volume II.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1989. (ISBN:  0060915633)  First paperback printing.  Orig. pub. 1988.  Light tanning, name/place/date on ffep, o/w near fine soft cover.  $5.00  SOLD 4 2 17 dealer

ID:  6272:  Boxer, Marilyn J., & Quataert, Jean H.  Connecting Spheres.  Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987. (ISBN:  019504133X) 5th paperback printing.  Owner’s name/date/place ffep, slight crimp to bottom front cover and first 20 pages, diagonal crease to back cover, light tip/edge wear, otherwise good plus soft cover.  $5.00

ID:  6274: Chartier, Roger, Editor.  A History of Private Life.  III. Passions of the Renaissance.  Cambridge:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989. (ISBN:  0674399773) First Printing.  Orig. pub. as Histoire de la vie Privée. Vol. 3. De la Renaissance aux Lumières, by Editions de Seuil, 1986.  Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.  General Editor:  Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby.  Near fine hard cover, with owner’s name/date/place ffep.  Dust wrapper has light tip/edge wear, 1” closed tear front cover, o/w very good.   $22.00  $10.00

ID:  6273:  Chodorow, Stanley, Editor.  The Other Side of Western Civilization.  Readings in Everyday Life.  Second Edition.  Volume I:  The Ancient World to the Reformation.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1979. (ISBN:  0155676482)  Essays by E. A. Thompson, Joshua Prawer, Sidney Painter, John Keegan, Gerald Strauss, Carlo Cipolla, Natalie Z. David, Gene Brucker, among others.  Printer’s ink blotches on several lines of text, pages 2-3, light edge/tip wear, crease lower back cover, o/w good plus soft cover. $5.00  

*ID: 6279: Conway, Jill Ker, Editor.  Written by Herself.  Autobiographies of American Woman:  An Anthology.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1992. (ISBN:  0679736336)  Introduction by Conway.  Includes writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Steinem, Jane Addams, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, among others.  Light tanning, name/date/place on ffep, o/w near fine soft cover.  $5.00  SOLD dealer 4 2 17

ID: 6278: Conway, Jill Ker, EditorWritten by Herself.  Volume II.  Women’s Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States.  An Anthology.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1996. (ISBN:  06797363360)  First paperback edition, first printing.  Inscribed and signed by Conway on the title page. Introduction by the editor. Includes writings by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Elspeth Huxley, Shudha Mazumdar, Isak Dinesen, among others.  Near fine soft cover.  $20.00  $10.00 SOLD dealer 4 2 17

ID:  6280: Conway, Jill Ker. True North.  A Memoir.  New York:  Vintage, 1995. (ISBN:  0679744614)   First Vintage edition, first printing.  Orig. pub. 1994, 1994, Alfred A. Knopf.  Light tanning, o/w fine, as new soft cover. $5.00 

ID:  6271:  Davis, Natalie Zemon.  Women on the Margins.  Three Seventeenth-Century Lives.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1997. (ISBN:  0674955218) Third paperback printing.  Orig. pub. 1995.  Near fine soft cover, with slightest bit of tip and edge wear.  $9.00  $5.00

ID: 6267: Davis, Natalie Zemon, and Farge, Arlette, Editors.  A History of Women in the West. III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes.  Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993. (ISBN:  067440372X) First Edition, First Printing.  (Orig. pub. as Storia delle donne in Occidente, vol. III, Dal Rinascimento all’età moderna, in Rome, 1991)  Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, General Editors.  Various translators.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  $20.00  $10.00  SOLD Amazon 7 8 17

ID: 6266: Donovan, Josephine.  Feminist Theory.  The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism.  New York:  Continuum, 1991. (ISBN:  0804461228)   Remainder marks on top and bottom edges, o/w very good soft cover.  $4.00 

ID:  6264 (ISBN:  0674931947)  Farge, Arlette, and Revel, Jacques.  The Vanishing Children of Paris.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1991. Translated from the French by Claudia Miéville.  (orig. titled Logiques de la Foule, pub. 1988)  First soft cover printing.  Name/date/place on ffep and light edge and tip wear, o/w very good.  Tight, clean interior.  $8.00    SOLD

ID: 6265: Fauré, Christine. Democracy Without Women.  Feminism and the Rise of Liberal Individualism in France.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1991. (ISBN:  0253321557)   Translated by Claudia Gorbman and John Berks.  (Orig. pub. as La démocratie sans les femmes, by Presses Universitaires de France, 1985.)  First edition, first printing.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  $15.00  $7.50

(ID: M818-100) Gillibrand, Kirsten.   Off the Sidelines.  Raise Your Voice, Change the World.  New York:  Ballantine Books, 2014. [ISBN: 9780804179072] With Elizabeth Weil.  Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Signed in blue ink by Gillibrand.  As new. Fine hard cover in Mylar-protected fine dust wrapper with removable "Signed Copy" sticker.  (ID: M818-100; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $55.00 . NEW

(ID: 6251) Goodman, Ellen, and O’Brien, Patricia.  I Know Just What You Mean.  The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2000.  Near fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper. Fifth printing.  (ID: 6251) $7.00  $3.50

ID: 6270:  Grant, JudithFundamental Feminism.  Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory.  New York:  Routledge, 1993. (ISBN:  0415908264) Near fine soft cover.  $12.00  $6.50

ID: 6261: Hill, Alette Olin.  Mother Tongue, Father Time.  A Decade of Linguistic Revolt.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1986. (ISBN:  0253203899) 2nd printing. Very good plus to near fine soft cover with crease to front cover and to page 33, owner’s name/date on ffep.  Unopened, unread.  $5.00

ID: 6246:  Hufton, Olwen.  The Prospect Before Her.  A History of Women in Western Europe 1500-1800New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.  First American Edition.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper. $17.00 $8.00

ID: 6256: Karlsen, Carol F.  The Devil in the Shape of a Woman.  Witchcraft in Colonial New England.  New York:  W. W. Norton Company, 1989. (0679721843)  Near fine soft cover with slightest bit of end/tip wear and spine fading. $6.00

ID: 6268: Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Editor.  A History of Women.  Silences of the Middle Ages Cambridge:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. (ISBN:  0674403711) Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, General Editors.   Orig. pub. as Storia delle Donne in Occidente, vol. II, Il Medioevo, Rome, 1990.)  Various translators.  Owner’s name/date on ffep, o/w fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper with 1” closed tear at corner of bottom front flap.  $18.00  $8.00

ID:  6259: Kumin, Maxine.  Women, Animals, & Vegetables.  Essays & Stories.  New York:  Ontario Review Press, 1994. (ISBN:  0865380848) Near fine soft cover, unopened, unread.   $8.00  $3.50. SOLD Amazon 4 14 22

*(ID: 5516) Kunin, Madeleine M.  Living a Political Life. New York:  Vintage, 1995.  Soft cover. Soft spots on lower edges, owner's name/date/place. Inscribed and signed by former Vermont governor Kunin.  (Item ID: 5516) $25.00  

*ID: 817-100.  [Lazarus, Emma] . Young, Bette Roth.  Emma Lazarus in Her World.  Life and Letters. New York:  The Jewish Publication Society, 1995.  [iSBN:  0827605161] Foreword by Francine Klagsbrun.  Signed and inscribed by Young on the FFEP.  Fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper is near fine with small crease on front flap, slightest of wear to spine ends, a bit of fading to upper front/rear covers.  (ID: M817-100) . $24.00  NEW

ID: 6248:  Liswood, Laura A.  Women World Leaders.  Fifteen Great Politicians Tell Their Stories.  San Francisco:  Pandora/HarperCollins, 1995.  First Edition, first printing.  Near fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper.  Copy of Chronicle of Higher Education notice of Liswood’s appointment as founder and executive director of the Council of Women World Leaders in the school of government at Harvard, August 8, 1997) laid in. $15.00  $5.00 . SOLD 12 27 19 AMAZON

ID:  6247:  Lougee, Carolyn C.  Le Paradis des Femmes.  Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.  Near fine hard cover, owner’s name/date ffep.  Dust wrapper has light edge and tip wear, spine is scraped with title text faded, o/w good plus. $55.00  $25.00 . SOLD

*ID: 5511: Mann, Judy.  The Difference.  Growing Up Female in America.  New York:  Warner Books, 1994.  Inscribed, dated and signed by Mann on the ffep.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper. $55.00  $15.00

ID:  6257 (ISBN:  0824505352)  Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth.  The Women Around Jesus. New York:  Crossroad Publishing Co., 1992.  Owner’s name/date/place on half-title, o/w fine soft cover. $7.00   SOLD

ID:  6249: Ozment, Steven.  When Fathers Ruled.  Family Life in Reformation Europe.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1983.  Fourth printing.  Near fine soft cover with small crease to lower front cover, sticker residue rear cover. $12.00  $5.00  SOLD on Amazon

ID: 6269: Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, Editor.  A History of Women.  From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints.  Cambridge:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994. (ISBN:  067440369)  4th Printing.  Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, General Editors.  Orig. pub. as Storia delle Donne in Occidente, vol. I, L’Antichità, in Rome, 1990.  Various translators.  Near fine soft cover.   $11.00  $5.00

*ID:  6300: Pelosi, Nancy.  Know Your Power.  A Message to America’s Daughters.  New York:  Doubleday, 2008. (ISBN:  9780385525862) With Amy Hill Hearth.  Signed and inscribed by former Speaker Pelosi on the title page.  Sharpie pen ink bleed to copyright page, otherwise fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  $30.00  $20.00 NO LONGER AVAILABLE

ID:  6275: Perrot, Michelle, Editor.  A History of Private Life.  IV.  From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War.  Cambridge:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. (ISBN:  0674399781)  Orig. pub as Histoire de la vie Privée, vol. 4, De la Révolution à la Grande Guerre, Editions de Seuil, 1987.  Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.  General Editors:  Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby.  Near fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper, with light wear to edges/tips, ½” closed tear, lower front cover.  Bookstore sticker with $17.98 price. $15.00   $7.50. SOLD Amazon 5 18 20

ID: 6260: Pizan, Christine de.  The Book of the City of Ladies.  New York:  Quality Paperback Book Club, 1992. (ISBN:  9780892552306 )  Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards.  Foreword by Marina Warner.  Owner’s name/date, o/w fine soft cover, unopened, unread.  $10.00 

ID: 6258: Sévigné, Marie de.  Madame de Sévigné:  Selected Letters.  New York:  Penguin, 1982. (ISBN:  014044405X) Translated, with an introduction, by Leonard Tancock.  4th printing.  Tanned, but otherwise near fine with owner’s name/date/place.  $9.00

ID: 6252: Shahar, Shulamith.  Childhood in the Middle Ages.  New York:  Routledge, 1992.  Translated from the original Hebrew by Chaya Galai.  Very good soft cover; owner’s name/date/place, on half-title, and faint trace of erased pencil marginalia.  $32.00   $10.00 SOLD

ID: 6250) Tannen, Deborah.  Gender and Discourse.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.  Third printing.  Fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper is near fine to fine with very slight sticker residue on front and rear. $8.00  $4.00

(ID: 6255) Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. (ISBN:  9781400041596)  First edition, first printing.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  Unopened/unread. $12.00  $5.00  SOLD  AMAZON 12 24 16

ID: 6262: Warner, Marina.  Alone of All Her Sex.  The Myth and The Cult of The Virgin Mary.  New York:  Vintage, 1983. (ISBN:  0394711556)  Owner’s name/place on ffep, light fading, edge/tip wear, o/w very good plus soft cover.  $7.00  SOLD Amazon 6 25 21

ID:  6254: Wiesner, Merry E.  Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.  Second printing.  Owner’s name/date/place on ffep, o/w near fine with slightest bit of edge/tip wear. $7.00

ID:  6253 Wollstonecraft, Mary.  A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.  Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli.  Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Near fine soft cover with very light edge wear. $12.00  $3.00

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JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY -- SALE $1.00 EACH

(1) ID: 6283 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 1996).  Fine, in wrappers, as issued.   $7.00

(2) ID:  6284 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol 8, No. 3 (Fall 1996) Near fine, in wrappers, as issued, with owner’s name/place/date on title page, small crease right front tip and at upper front spine. $9.00

(3) ID:  6285 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History. Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn 1997) Includes comments on National History Standards by Christie Farnham, Barbara A. Moss,  Virginia S. Wilson, Helga H. Harriman, Joan Hoff, and Joan W. Scott.  In wrappers, as issued. Fine with very small crease upper front tip.  $9.00

(4) ID: 6286 (ISSN: 10427961)  Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 1998).  Special issue:  “Sexing Women’s History,”  Joanne Meyerowitz and Gail Hershatter, special guest editors.  In wrappers, as issued.  Very good, with slight wear to tips.  $15.00

(5) ID: 6287 (ISSN:  10427961)  Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 1998) Near fine, in wrappers, as issued. Includes review essays on new books in Canadian Women’s History and on Current Developments in the Study of Women in Russia.  Near fine with slight bit of tip wear and a 1-1/2” scratch on rear cover.  $9.00

(6) ID: 6288 (ISSN:  10427961}  Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn 1998) Near fine wrappers, as issued, with slightest bit of tip wear.  $7.00

(7) ID: 6289 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 1999)  Special issue:  Women and Twentieth-Century Religious Politics:  Beyond Fundamentalism.  Special issue editors:  Nikki R. Keddie and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi.    Includes review essays on “Feminisms and Islamisms” by Margot Badran, and “The Politics of Women’s Rights in the Contemporary Muslim World,” by Jassamin Rostam-Kolayi.   Near fine, in wrappers as issued, with 2” crease back cover slightest bit of end/tip wear.  $12.00

(8) ID: 6290 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1999) Includes Part I of “Women’s History in the New Millennium.  A Conversation across Three  ‘Generations’” by Anne Firor Scott, Sara M. Evans, Susan K. Cahn, and Elizabeth Faue.  Near fine, in wrappers as issued, with 2” crease on front cover and small crease to back cover top tip.  $12.00

(9) ID: 6291 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 1999). Includes Part II of “Women’s History in the New Millennium.  A Conversation across Three  ‘Generations’” by Anne Firor Scott, Sara M. Evans, Susan K. Cahn, and Elizabeth Faue.   Near fine, in wrappers as issued, with a bit of edge/tip wear and small creases.  $ 10.00

(10) ID: 6292 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 11, No. 3 (Autumn 1999) Includes essays on “Women’s History in the New Millennium:  Women, Work, and Family After Two Decades,” by Barbara A. Hanawalt, Thomas Dublin, E. Patricia Tsurumi, and Louise A. Tilly.  Chip and crimp to bottom spine (1/4”), 2 creases front cover, and back top tip, otherwise very good, in wrappers, as issued.  $12.00

(11) ID: 6293 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 2000)  Special issue:  “Marginalizing Economies:  Work, Poverty, and Policy,” edited by Stephanie J. Shaw.  Near fine to fine wrappers, as issued, tiniest bit of tip wear.  $7.00

(12) ID: 6294 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2000).  Near fine wrappers, as issued, with slightest bit of edge/tip wear.  $7.00

(13) ID: 6295 (ISSN:  10427961) Journal of Women’s History.  Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2000)  Near fine wrappers, as issued, with slightest bit of edge/tip wear.   $7.00