Women's Studies from D. Anthem, Bookseller

Trenton: State Board of Beauty Control, 1939. New Jersey's bureaucratic regulations for engagement in the beauty culture industry. Small, stapled green wrappers (4" x 6"), 24 p. Wear, foxing and soiling to wrappers; corners of the first few leaves are bumped.

London: The Christabel Pankhurst Memorial Fund Committee, 1958. A solicitation of funds for a proposed memorial to honor the militant suffragist, Christabel Pankhurst. The front cover features a photograph of Pankhurst and a list of the committee's officers. The inside panels give a brief history of Pankhurst' contribution towards women's suffrage in Britain and a rendering of the proposed… Read more about this item

Seattle: Counsellor Publishing Company, 1933. A single issue of the official organ of the Women's Legislative Council of Washington, which was published from 1916 until at least 1938. Articles include "Debts, Tariffs and Trade" by Jessie Bullock Kastner, "Farm Mortgate Loans" by Lady Willie Forbus, "International Relations" by the W. L. C. W. Peace Dept., "Drug Habits - Morphine"… Read more about this item

1945. An original 5" x 7" publicity photograph of Anita Pollitzer, Chairman of the New York City Committee, National Woman's Party and the newly elected National Chairman of the National Woman's Party. Pollitzer, a Charleston-born Jew, was an active suffragette who was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment. She served as NWP Chairman from 1945-49. She also… Read more about this item

Montevideo, [193-]. Letterhead from this Uruguayan political party founded at the end of 1932 following the passage of the woman's suffrage law. The party was founded by the militant feminist and lawyer, Sara Rey Alvarez, and participated in the 1938 general elections, but without much success. Printed on an 8 ½" x 11" sheet of Bond paper. Some minor… Read more about this item

Atlantic City, New Jersey: Central Studios, 1941. A three-and-a-half foot panoramic photograph taken at the Golden Jubilee Triennial of General Federation of Women's Clubs, which was held 19-24 May 1941 in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Dennis Hotel. Although the organization celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding on April 24, 1940, it was decided to mark the… Read more about this item

Bloemfontein: Gedruk deuf Die Sentrale Pers, [195-]. First edition. A booklet commemorating the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dedicated to the women who died in Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Includes a history of the monument's conception and construction, the suffering and death of women during the war, and short biographies of three individuals buried… Read more about this item

Westport: New York State Branch of the National Woman's Party, 1944. A postcard from National Woman's Party State Chairman of New York, Jeannette Marks, urging supporters to send editorials to local papers in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. One of the many times the ERA legislation was before Congress and failed to pass. A 5 ½" x 3… Read more about this item

London: The Open Door Council, 1929. A call by this London-based feminist organization for a conference in Berlin, June 15-16, 1929, for the purpose of forming an international organization to further the following objective: "To secure that a woman shall be free to work and protected as a worker on the same terms as a man, and that legislation… Read more about this item

[Washington, D. C.?]: [National Woman's Party?], 1929. A scarce pamphlet reprinting a speech made by influential suffragist and women's rights advocate Doris Stevens at a banquet of the Institut de Droit International held at Briarcliff Lodge on Columbus Day, 1929. In her speech, Stevens compares the lives of Hatshepsut, the first Egyptian Queen, whose jealous husband tried to erase… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C.: Various publishers, 1934. Five publications related to James Brown Scott (1866-1943), an authority on international law, who became involved with Doris Stevens and the National Woman's Party during the late 1920s. As the NWP expanded its scope to include an international recognition of equal rights for women, Scott, who'd already worked in the international peace movement,… Read more about this item