Search Results: Women's Studies from Leaf and Stone Books

New York: Institute for Research in History and the Haworth Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 086656134X . X, 114 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. A few black/white illustrations. Small octavo. Blue cloth with cream ruling and title is clean and unmarked. Edges have a bit of shelf soil. Interior has a small mark on inside front cover, otherwise clean and neat, some pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. A good copy. ; Women & History; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0199587906 . Xv, 279 pp. References, index. Illustration with maps, figures and tables. Octavo. Dull green dust jacket with medieval woodcut. DJ is clean and unmarked, in Mylar. Book has library stamps (no pockets or stickers) but otherwise clean and nice. Good copy. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages .

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801449774 . Xiv, 285 pp. Bibliography, index. 2 colour plates, many figures, tables, charts and maps. Octavo. Grey dust jacket with figure of a nun and a monk, now in Mylar, with minor shelf wear. Book itself has minor age to covers, interior has owner sig. , otherwise clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. ..Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses shaped by literary sources such as Manzoni's The Betrothed are badly off the mark. Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year… Read More

Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 177112153X . KB8...xvii, 371 pp. Bibliography, index. Occasional illustrations. Octavo. Hardcover, white front board with image of praying women and religious symbols. Covers are clean and unmarked, interior is fresh and clean, virtually as new. From the publisher: "This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a… Read More

Taiwan: Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica. Good. 1987. Softcover. 226 pp. Index at rear. English abstract and table of contents at rear. Chinese text. Light blue softcover. Book is in good condition. Clean with minimal wear. Signed by previous owner on half-title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Samuel Tipper. Fair with no dust jacket. 1807. First Edition. Hardcover. 435 pp + notes. Dark brown leather spine and corners, marbled hard boards. Vol. III only (of 3). First English edition. Leather corners are rubbed, spine a bit rubbed, back board detached and front board threatening. Spine label is detached but present and has been living at the title page where it has left a ghost shadow. Inside front board has had an old book plate that's been removed, first blank has an old owner's inscript, paper a bit browned but otherwise clean and unmarked, book block solid. The author was a prominent anti-Napoleonist, novelist and salonist, whose guests included Talleyrand and Gouverneur Morris. " she journeyed to Italy accompanied by Schlegel and Sismondi, and there gathered the materials of her most famous work, Corinne,whose main protagonist was inspired by the Italian poet Diodata Saluzzo Roero. She returned in the summer of 1805, and spent nearly a year in… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Good in Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0802042856 . Kb28...xx, 406 pp. Index. B&W illustrations, frontis gravure of Madame Helvetius. Octavo. Perrywinkle blue dust jacket with oval image of madame Helvetius shows very minor shelf wear, flaps intact. Book itself is clean and unmarked, a quite nice copy. In French except for the occasional English letter. Suivies de lettres relevant des periodes des trois permier volumes et decouvertes depuis leur parution. Introduction, etablissement des textes et appareil critique. The 4th of 5 volumes of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771) , author of the controversial De l'Esprit. Featuring the corresopndence of Mm. Helvetius, nee Anne Catherine de Ligniville, in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helvetius discovered since the publication of the first 3 volumes. ; French Edition; 8vo 8" -… Read More

Leiden; New York; Koln: E. J. Brill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 9004106596 . KB50...xxviii, [ii], 218, [iii] pp. Bibliographic references, indices, verba memorabilia. Octavo. Light and dark olive green glossy dust jacket with tasteful black and white print. Slight bit of shelf wear to jacket, book itself is clean and unmarked, tight. Very nice copy. This edition offers a new Latin text with a double apparatus and facing page English translation with notes. This Liber Primus contains book one of Vives' three tracts on women (maidenhood, marriage and widowhood) . ; Selected Works of J. L. Vives; Vol. 6; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .

Leiden; New York; Koln: E. J. Brill. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 9004106758 . X, 295, [ii] pp. Primary sources, Index of Names & Subjects. Tall octavo. Dark gey glossy dust jacket with white and black type and design. Bit of edgewear, small tear at top of spine, flaps intact. Book itself has gift inscription from the author to another Canadian historian - "A topsy-turvy book: not history of doctrine but doctrine as history." Otherwise clean and unmarked. Good copy. "..examines 4 cultural constructs of dwelling: the inn, the sanctuary, the villa, and the casstle. Its focus is the hearth as the familial place. A lesson in alterity, it exposes the rejection of the divine in indwelling as at home (John 14: 23). It discovers a fundamental disparity between domesticity anmd the asceticism that dominated western civilization. ; Studies in the History of Christian Thought; Vol. 74; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages; Signed by Author .

Palgrave MacMillan. Good with no dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0230298621 . Xii, 218 pp. Notes, works cited, index. Small octavo. Dark grey hard paper with illustration from Margaret Cavendish. Covers have very minor wear. Interior is tight and clean EXCEPT the introduction has yellow highlighter and ink underlining and marginalia. There is a small amount of ink underlining elsewhere but the blows mostly fell in the first few pages. Otherwise, quite a nice copy. There is a gift inscription on the first blank that appears to be from the author. Priced low to reflect condition but still very usable. ; Early Modern Literature In History; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Pickering & Chatto - Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1851967427 . Xxxi, 373; xviii, 456; xvi, 366; xviii, 361; xix, 474 pages. Notes, Indexes. Octavo. Handsome dark blue set in dark blue cloth with red coth label with gilt to spine. Very minor wear inside and out, 1 small nick at the bottom edge of Vol. 1. Heavy for international shipping. This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707) , that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2136 pages .

London: Pickering & Chatto - Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1851967702 . Xxvii, 523; xiv, 343; xviii, 396; xviii, 415; xxiii, 424 page. Index in last volumes, notes. Occasional b/w illustrations. Octavo. Handsome dark red cloth with navy/gilt spine title. Very minor wear, clean and tight, very nice copies. Heavy for international shipping. Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2072 pages .

London, Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 074531662X . ix + 251 pp. Index. At look at the work and life of prostitutes in Peru from the viewpoint of a feminist anthropologist who lived with some of these women while doing her research for this book (which is a revision of her doctoral thesis). Much insight into gender relationships and prostitution. Book is unread and virtually as new, small mark on front cover, little bump to back corner, otherwise clean and crisp.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 251 pages .

Toronto: Peregrina Publishing Co.. Good. 1998. Softcover. 092066959x . 228 pp. English introduction and text with Latin texts at rear. Green and white softcover. Book is ex-libris with book plate inside front cover. Book is in good condition. Some marks on edges/spine, and some early pages slightly rippled. Interior is clean with no marks save minor marks on bottoms of pages 76 and 77. Very usable copy. ; Peregrina Translations Series, Vol 27; Ex-Libris; 9 X 6.25 X 1.25 inches; 228 pages .

Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773446664 . [x], xiv, 336 pp References, index. Gift inscription on the first blank from "Wendy". Pale yellow cloth with inset b/w illustration of a classical woman, minimal shelf wear. Interior has the inscription and a pencil erasure price, otherwise clean and crisp. Nice copy. ; 9.30 X 6.40 X 1 inches; 348 pages; Signed by Author .

Manchester And New York: Manchester University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0719081459 . Vi + 262 pp. Bibliography and index at rear. Light blue DJ in good condition. Minor red marks at bottom of front. Otherwsie clean with no wear. Burgundy cloth boards. Book itself is in excellent condition clean with no marks. ; Gender in History; 8.66 X 5.59 X 1.10 inches; 288 pages .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198200609 . Xvi, 508 pp. Bibliography, index. Map of Gilbertine Foundations. Octavo. Dark blue dust jacket with grey vertical ruling is intact, some bending and wear at edges, a smudge on the front of DJ. Book itself is clean and unmarked, paper creamy, but otherwise very nice. Good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages .

Atlanta: SBL Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2015. Softcover. 0884140490 . Xiii, 453 pp. Biblography, index of ancient sources. Octavo. Glossy pale blue covers with dark blue square. Covers are clean and unmarked, interior clean and nice. Part of the Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. ; Bible and Women; Vol. 6.2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 468 pages .

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Softcover. 0691014795 . Xvi, 297 pp. Bibliography, index locorum, general index. Octavo. Brown soft covers with Apulian red-figure hydria. Slight edge wear, interior clean and unmarked, a nice and very usable copy. Text in the beginning is in Greek with facing translation. Looks at gender conflicts, woman/mother/daughter, cosmological tradition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages .

Newark: University of Delaware Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0874138353 . 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index at rear. Light blue, grey, and white DJ. DJ in good condition, very slight wear along edges, otherwise no marks. Blue cloth boards. Book is in very good condition, clean with no marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages .