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Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, New York, 1864-86
by Turbin, Carole
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1992
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- Paperback
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- 9780252018367
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Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. xi, [1], 231, [7] p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series The Working Class in American History, and the series Women in American History. The author examines labor organizing activities of the collar laundresses in Troy, N.Y., from 1864 to 1886.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Women at Work including The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl by Dorothy Richardson & Inside the New York Telephone Company by Elinor Langer; Edited with an Introduction by William L. O'Neill
by Richardson, Dorothy; Langer, Elinor
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1975
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- Paperback
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- 9780812962376
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SGD 20.56
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New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Third printing, May 1975. xix, [3], 360, [2] p.; 21 cm. Paperback. The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl was first published anonymously in 1905. The author, Dorothy Richardson (not the English author of stream-of-consciousness novels), takes her… Read more about this item Item Price
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Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition
by Hobson, Barbara Meil
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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New York: Basic Books, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. x, 275 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Maroon cloth with blue and gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "examines prostitution during the major reform periods: the 1840s, with its surge of evangelical activism; the early twentieth century and the Progressive attack on prostitution; and the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America
by Saxton, Martha
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9780374110116
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New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/fine. x, 388 p.; 24 cm. Brown and yellow cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper dated 3/19/03. The author examines the innate conflict between the popular view of women as weak and helpless while whey were… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
by Gutman, Herbert G.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1976
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- Paperback
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- 9780394724515
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SGD 35.64
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New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. xxviii, 664 p.: illustrations, tables, genealogical tables; 23 cm. Paperback. A groundbreaking work, in which "quantitative records, from the U. S. Census, slave plantation journal books and the like are intermixed with qualitative materials, such as letters slaves wrote each other, testimony given to Government commissions,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman; Edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann ewen; Historical Afterword by Joe W. Trotter
by Garrison, Memphis Tennessee; Bickley, Ancelia R., editor; Ewen, Lynda Ann, editor
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780821413739
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Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. xxxiv, 249 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Orange endpapers. Part of the publisher's series in Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. Memphis Tennessee Garrison (1890-1988) was a teacher in McDowell County, West Virginia, who organized a chapter of the NAACP in 1921. … Read more about this item Item Price
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From the Other Side; Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U. S., 1820-1990
by Gabaccia, Donna
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1994
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- Paperback
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- 9780253209047
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. xvii, [1], 192, [2] p.; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes bibliographical essay. Former owner's name on half title page. In Very Good Condition: spine lightly creased; one page corner creased; marginal marks on one page of the bibliographical essay; otherwise, clean and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The American Way of Sex: An Informal Illustrated History
by Smith, Bradley
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- Used - Near Fine
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- good +
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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SGD 21.93
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New York: Two Continents Publishing Co, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. "A Gemini Smith Inc. Book." [2], 254 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title and front cover illustration. Illustrated endpapers. White dust jacket printed in red and blue. Book is in Near Fine Condition: edges of cover slightly rubbed;… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Being Homeless: Historical Perspectives; Essays published to accompany the exhibition On Being Homeless: An Historical Perspective 24 November 1987 through 27 March 1988
by Beard, Rick, editor
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- Used - Very Good
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- good +
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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SGD 49.35
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New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 176 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Maroon endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Contains essays by David J. Rothman, Kenneth L. Kusmer, Marsha A. Martin, Lisa N. Peters, Kenneth T. Jackson, Elizabeth Wickenden, Kim Hopper, Rick Bard,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 49.35
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society -- Special Issue: Women and Violence -- Spring 1983, vol. 8, no. 3
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- 1983
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Chicago: University of Chicago, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. [4], 397-592, [24] p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Contributors: Gisela Bock, Sandra M. Gilbert, Elizabeth Pleck, Sara Ruddick, Wini Breines, Linda Gordon, Irene Hanson Frieze, Pauline W. Gee, Carol S. Wharton, Ynestra King, Paula Webster, Louise G. Smith-Donals, and Paul A. Gilje. In Very Good Condition: cover rubbed;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith
by Perry, Elisabeth Israels
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- Used - Fine
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- near fine
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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- 9780195044263
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SGD 35.64
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New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xv, [1], 280 p., [8] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with silver spine title; grey boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Belle Moskowitz (1877-1933) was a political advisor and publicist to Al Smith (1873-1944) from his 1918 campaign for governor of New York through… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Scientific American Supplement -- No. 1033, Oct.19, 1895 [the New York Clearing House]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/575/1324575693.0.m.jpg)
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Scientific American Supplement -- No. 1033, Oct.19, 1895 [the New York Clearing House]
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- 1895
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New York: Munn & Co, 1895. Paperback. Very Good +. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16504-16518 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. The front illustration is of the Emperor William Church in Berlin, Germany. Also contains illustrated articles about the New York Clearing House; the Volga Ferry steamer; the mother of pearl industry; the Tussah silk industry; trout farms… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Scientific American Supplement -- No. 1026, Aug. 31, 1895 [lady cyclists in Battersea Park, London]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/677/575/1324575677.0.m.jpg)
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Scientific American Supplement -- No. 1026, Aug. 31, 1895 [lady cyclists in Battersea Park, London]
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- 1895
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SGD 63.06
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New York: Munn & Co, 1895. Paperback. Very Good. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16392-16406 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Contains illustrated articles about lady cyclists in Battersea Park, London; the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad standard types of permanent way; the sharpening of files by sand blast; and the splash of a drop and allied phenomena… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Essays on the Puerperal Fever and Other Diseases Peculiar to Women: Selected From the Writings of British Authors Previous to the Close of the Eighteenth Century; edited by Fleetwood Churchill [provenance: Charles D. Meigs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/323/263/1321263323.0.m.jpg)
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Essays on the Puerperal Fever and Other Diseases Peculiar to Women: Selected From the Writings of British Authors Previous to the Close of the Eighteenth Century; edited by Fleetwood Churchill [provenance: Charles D. Meigs]
by Churchill, Fleetwood, editor
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- Used - Fair
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- 1848
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- Hardcover
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SGD 261.84
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London: Sydenham Society, 1848. Hardcover. Fair. viii, 552, 11 p.; 23 cm. Publisher's black cloth with emblem in gilt on both boards within blind-stamped decoration. Top page edges gilt. Small yellow bookbinder's label on back fixed endpaper of Westleys & Co., London. The Sydenham Society published medical works from 1844 to 1857. Yellow… Read more about this item Item Price
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Middlebrow Modern: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s; Edited by Lisa Botshon & Meredith Goldsmith
by Botshon, Lisa; Goldsmith, Meredith, editors
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9781555535575
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SGD 63.06
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Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvii, [1], 301 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket. Contents: "Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose:" Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction by Donna Campbell -- The Cosmopolitan Regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship Village by Deborah… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 63.06
"Traitors to the Masculine Cause": The Men's Campaigns for Women's Rights
by Strauss, Sylvia
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- Used - Fine
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780313222382
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SGD 17.82
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Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. xix, [1] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Brown cloth with black spine and cover titles. Contributions in Women's Studies, no. 35. Includes index. No dust jacket, as issued. Covers support by men for women's right to vote in the United States and England. In Fine Condition:… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 17.82
Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930
by Meyerowitz, Joanne J.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- near fine -
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780226521978
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SGD 34.27
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Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine -. xxiii, [1], 224 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author used oral history interviews, popular fiction, social science surveys, and papers by sociologists and reformers to produce this social and cultural history of single… Read more about this item Item Price
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Practical Helps for Club Women: Compiled by the Good Citizenship Bureau of Woman's Home Companion
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1937
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Springfield, Ohio: Woman's Home Companion, 1937. Near Fine. [4] p.; 22 cm. Pamphlet. Contains suggestions of biographies of women, books "Dealing with Modern Opportunities for Women," and books "on the Woman-Movement." Also contains "the names of women whose achievements are worth studying," which includes women in the sciences, social work, literature, and the arts, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America [bound with] The Oregon Territory: a Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and Its Inhabitants with Outlines of Its History and Discovery](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/233/1297233663.0.m.jpg)
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The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America [bound with] The Oregon Territory: a Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and Its Inhabitants with Outlines of Its History and Discovery
by Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland; Nicolay, C. G. (Charles Grenfell)
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- 1946
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- Hardcover
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London: Charles Knight & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Good +. "New Edition." 1 preliminary leaf, 243, [6], 8-226 p., frontispiece portrait, folded map: illustrations; 15 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title. The Oregon Territory was published in London by Charles Knight & Co. in 1846. Front fixed endpaper bears… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Young Ladies' Vocal Class-Book; For the Use of Female Seminaries and Music Classes; Composed, Selected and Arranged, with Piano-Forte Accompaniments, Expressly for this Work by George James Webb
by Webb, George James
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1843
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- Hardcover
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SGD 176.85
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Boston: Jenks & Palmer, 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. 152 p.: music; 29 cm. Black cloth spine; brown paper over boards printed in black. Back cover has advertisements for works by Webb published by Jenks & Palmer. "Consisting of Systematic Instructions for Forming and training the Voice, and Suitable Vocalizing Exercises and solfeggios;… Read more about this item Item Price
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