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[A carte-de-visite of abolitionist and women's rights lecturer, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson]
n.p.: n.p., 1860. A carte-de-visite of the popular 19th century lecturer, alpinist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate Anna Dickinson (1842-1932). Dickinson was born to a Quaker family in Philadelphia and at 13 published an essay in William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator." At 19 she went on her first lecture tour, which was sponsored by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She was a popular speaker who stumped for the Republican Party and at the height of her fame earned the equivalent of...
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Women, War and Fascism
by McConnell, Dorothy
New York: The American League Against War and Fascism, 1935. A pamphlet on the exploitation of women workers under both fascism and democracy. The American League Against War and Fascism was a Communist Party front organization founded in 1933. It became the American League for Peace and Democracy in 1937 before dissolving in 1939. Stapled wrappers, 18 p. Numbers penned to the top of the front wrapper, else a near fine copy.
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A$131.70
The First Woman in the American Hall of Fame
Philadelphia: Girard Trust Company, 1933. A tribute to Mary Mason Lyon, the first woman elected to the American Hall of Fame. Lyon was the founder and first president of Mount Holyoke College and a notable educator of women. Stapled wrappers, 12 p., three illustrations. A near fine copy. One copy in WorldCat at Mount Holyoke.
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A$77.47
The Radcliffe Yearbook
The 1961 edition of Radcliffe's yearbook. Crimson cloth with gilt stamped on front and spine. Copious B&W illustrations and photographs.Cover has some stains and bumping, with wear on the spine heel.
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A$38.74
Women of New York - WPA Cuts Threaten Your Standard of Living
by Women's Committee of the Workers Alliance
[New York]: Womens Committee of the Workers Alliance, 1937. A flyer calling for the women of New York to join a "mammoth demonstration of 10,000 women" at City Hall to protest WPA cuts in New York City. The text maintains that 60,000 WPA workers in New York City "will be thrown into the streets" thereby driving down wages as jobs become more competitive. The Workers Alliance of America was founded in 1935 under the auspices of the Socialist Party of America and originally resembled a trade union...
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A$619.76
A collection of material from the Chicago branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Chicago: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1940. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was founded in 1915 as the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (it became the WILPF in 1919). The U.S. chapter was Jane Addams' Woman's Peace Party, which was also founded in 1915. The group promoted women's suffrage, disarmament, the end to economic imperialism and the release of political prisoners. The material in this collection comes from Jessie Lloyd...
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A$387.35
Carrie Chapman Catt’s Book, with editor’s letter promoting the “Co-Workers Edition” – to a noted Chicago Suffrage leader, millionaire and vice chair of Republican Party
by CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT & NETTIE ROGERS SHULER
"The gates to political enfranchisement have swung open. The women are inside."
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT & NETTIE ROGERS SHULER. Book. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. No. 122 of 1,000 "Co-workers edition," copy belonging to Chicago suffragist, millionaire and vice chairman of the Republican Party, Bertha Baur. 504 pp., 5¾ x 8¼ in. With: ROSE YOUNG. Typed Letter Signed, March 15, 1923, to Bertha Baur, New York, NY. On colorful... Read more about this item
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT & NETTIE ROGERS SHULER. Book. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. No. 122 of 1,000 "Co-workers edition," copy belonging to Chicago suffragist, millionaire and vice chairman of the Republican Party, Bertha Baur. 504 pp., 5¾ x 8¼ in. With: ROSE YOUNG. Typed Letter Signed, March 15, 1923, to Bertha Baur, New York, NY. On colorful... Read more about this item
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A$1,781.81
Extremely Unwoke Women’s Suffrage Views by a Chicago Italian-American Attorney
by [WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE]. CAIROLI GIGLIOTTI
"it is clear that woman suffrage should be discarded for the following reasons: First. It disrupts the home.... Second. The woman is physically unfit for certain offices.... Third. Politics is the most corrupt game of the age.... Fourth. The right to vote does imply the right to become eligible to nomination or election to public offices.... Fifth. The influence of the woman should be of a persuasive nature, and should be exercised at home.... Sixth. Jealousy would destroy domestic happiness....... Read more about this item
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A$929.64
How Harvard Rules Women
Chicago / Cambridge: New University Conference, 1970. A collection of articles written and produced collectively by a group of Harvard women affiliated with the New University Conference, who claim in the prologue, "The relation of Harvard to its women is similar to that of the missionary to his heathen." Articles on the oppression, discrimination, pay inequality, sexist behavior, and exploitation of both female students and women faculty. Stapled newsprint wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 77 p., illus....
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Booklist for Women's Liberation
by Lloyd, Leonora (compiled by)
London: London Socialist Woman Group, 1970. Second Edition. The new edition is arranged under categories and contains about 100 more titles than the first." Also includes alist of Women's Liberation Groups in the UK and US. A nice reference work from the time. Stapled wrappers, 16 p.
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A$46.48
Facing Down the Man
by Henley, Nancy
Pittsburgh: KNOW, Inc, 1971. A list of tips for "students, women, workers, blacks and others now organizing in our country to fight oppression [who] sooner or later get into closed-door showdowns with The Man." The author dedicates it to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association "without whose opposition it might never have been written." Four corner-stapled 11" x 8 ½" sheets, 3 p. of text, crudely drawn cover illustration. Six copies in WorldCat.
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A$116.21
Chicago Women as Citizens: A Description of the Work of the Chicago Woman's Club, Reprinted from William Hard's "The Women of To-Morrow
[New York]: Distributed by Doubleday, Page & Co, 1911. William Hard (1878-1962) was a social reformer and muckraking journalist who was an early resident of Hull House where he established a neighborhood magazine called "The Neighbor." He was the author of many magazine articles and books on progressive topics such as child labor, industrial working conditions and accidents, women's rights, etc. He also wrote an early debunking of the Protocols called The Great Jewish Conspiracy (1920). Stapled...
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A$147.19
The Coagess
1957 edition of the Westover girl's school yearbook. Green cloth cover with silver stamped on front. Decorative endpapers featuring the girls' signatures. Copious B&W illustrations, with vintage advertisements in the back.Cover has stains, with a narrow tear on the front. Spine is sunned.
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A$46.48
On the Liberation of Women in Albania
New York: Gamma Publications, Inc. Collects two speeches by Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia delivered at a meeting of the Central Committee on "advancing the complete liberation of the women of Albania." Photo-illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 30 p., illus. Crease to the top corner of the front wrapper, else a fine copy.
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A$27.89
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by Judith C. Brown
Book is in Near Fine condition, with minor edgewear to cover, pages clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with light edgewear to cover, some sun tanning to extremities.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with light edgewear to cover, some sun tanning to extremities.
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A$46.48
Class Structure In the Women's Movement
by Mehrhof, Barbara
New York: The Feminists, 1969. The author maintains that the "women's movement is in the process of establishing a tertiary class system, a system under which the liberation of women becomes impossible." Three 11" x 8 ½" sheets mimeographed from typescript, 5 p of text. Scarce, like all other Feminists' documents. Six copies held in institutional collections via WorldCat.
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A$232.41
The Cost of Competence: Why Inequality Causes Depression, Eating Disorders, and Illness in Women
by Brett Silverstein; Deborah Perlick
Book is Near Fine condition, with very light edgewear to cover, bit of foxing to top edges. Only fault to pages, an embossed stamp saying "Library of Suzanne R. Eaton" on title page.
Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with bit of bumping to corners. Bit of foxing to top edges.
Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with bit of bumping to corners. Bit of foxing to top edges.
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A$46.48
Pedestal: A Lesbian-Feminist Newspaper (2 issues)
by Pedestal Collective
Vancouver, B.C.: Pedestal, 1975. Two issues of the lesbian feminist newspaper written and published by the Pedestal Collective in Vancouver. Articles on what it means to be a lesbian feminist, on activities and resources for lesbians across Canada, on becoming independent, on mutual aid, etc. Other content includes profiles of women and lesbians throughout history, personal essays, book reviews, an event calendar, etc. Tabloid newspaper printed in black on newsprint, each issue 20 p., illus. Both near...
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Life and Labor Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 7 - Serial No. 94, July 1931
Washington, D. C.: The National Women's Trade Union League of America, 1931. An issue of this labor bulletin published by the National Women's Trade Union League of America (NWTULA). The NWTULA was founded in Boston in 1903 primarily as an auxiliary of the American Federation of Labor, as well as an extension of the settlement movement. The organization was active in supporting strikes, organizing women into unions, and educating the public on the conditions of women workers. The leadership comprised...
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Autograph Note SIGNED on Visiting Card, n.p., n.d.
by WHEELER, CORA STUART
Wheeler is included in "A Woman of the Century" which lists 1470 biographical sketches of prominent 19th century American Women, compiled by Frances Willard and Mary Livermore, published in 1893. In their introduction, the editors claim the, "nineteenth century is woman's century." The reference tool was intended to fill a "Vacant niche in the reference library." Wheeler writes under her printed name, "Because I ... a dear ‘Schoolgirl' of any one in Smith College I write for you with pleasure, Cora...
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A$170.43
Testimony
by Elkins, Heather Murray
Nashville, TN: E. W. Press, 1989. Religious poetry by a graduate of Duke's Divinity school who went on to teach at Drew University. Stapled wrappers, 33 p., illustrations.
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A$38.74
Which Road Towards Womens' Liberation: The Movement as a Radical Vanguard or a Single-Issue Coalition
by Fraser, Clara
Seattle: Seattle Radical Women, 1970. The discussion draft of a paper presented by Fraser to the Seattle Radical Women Conference held on February 23, 1970. Fraser rails against "single-issue-ism," a "theoretic excrescence born out of too-painful isolation, nurtured during a pronged vacuum of real revolutionary leadership, and perpetuated by the tremendous reactionay pressures of capitalism bearing down hard upon a student/middle-class radicalism that remains basically disconnected from the proletariat...
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The Spokeswoman (5 issues)
by Davis, Susan (editor)
Chicago: The Spokeswoman, 1971. Five issues of this feminist newsletter edited and published by Susan Davis in Chicago. The newsletter emerged from the Newsbank at Urban Research Corporation and was a "national vehicle to make active women visible and to provide a public platform for women's programs." Issues include Vol. 1, Nos. 5-6; Vol. 2, Nos. 5-7. Folded sheets (11" x 8 ½"), each issue 8 p. Old folds for mailing, else fine.
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A$116.21
Women Speak Out
Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Women Speak Out, 197-. An unnumbered newsletter from this obscure women's liberation group based in Ohio. Mimeographed on both sides of a 14" x 8 1/2" sheet.
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A$38.74
Cabinet card depicting a female cyclist.
by (Bicycling) Mason, A
Herne Hill, London: A. Mason, c. 1900-1910. Cabinet card (165 x 108 mm). Gold bevelled edges. Remnants of an old sticker or ticket next to the photographer's address. A few tiny spots and a minor scratch. Very good condition. Cabinet card depicting a female cyclist. The cabinet card, essentially a larger version of the carte de visite, was a popular format for portraiture from the 1860s until the early years of the 20th century, when Brownies and other affordable cameras made it possible for people to...
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