Women's Studies from The Brooklyn Bookman

ROBB, George: Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover, 248 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Women's Studies / American History-Women and Finance. Condition: Like New. A very gently used copy with all pages clean and bright. A unique look and study regarding… Read more about this item

GLUCKEL of Hameln: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. New York, Schocken Books, 1989. Originally published in 1932. First Schocken Books Edition published in 1977. Translated with notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Softcover, 295 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Autobiography & Memoir / Women's Studies / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good. Very faint edge-wear to the lower extremities with light… Read more about this item

THURMAN, Judith: Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire. New York, Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007. Stated First Picador Edition: 2008. Softcover, 427 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays / Literary / Women's Studies. Condition: Good. The main defect of the book involves ruffling of pages (page corners and edges bent). Otherwise a copy in readable condition with all pages clean and… Read more about this item

COTT, Nancy F.(Editor): No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. Later Edition: 2004. Softcover, 646 pp. Subject: Nonfiction/History- Women - U.S./Women's Studies. Condition: Good. Evident crease to the book's spine, but all pages are fully intact. Bumping to the corner tips.… Read more about this item

PAGLIA, Camille: Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays. New York, Vintage, 1992. Stated First Edition. Softcover, 337 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / U.S.- Popular Culture – History / Feminism / Essay Collections. Condition: Very Good Minus. Light wear to extremities evident. Pages slightly toned but unmarked. A collection of insightful essays by… Read more about this item

BOHRER, Melissa Lukeman: Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution. New York, Atria, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 272 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History-American / American Revolution, 1765-1791 / History & Biography / Women's Studies. Book & jacket condition: Very Good Plus.… Read more about this item

ROSEN, Ruth: The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Stated Second Printing. (Originally published in 1982.) Paperback, 245 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History-U.S. Prostitution – early twentieth century / History-Women's Studies. Condition: Good Plus. Creasing to the front cover near the lower left hand corner. Corner chip at the upper part of the… Read more about this item

DOUGLAS, Susan J. & MICHAELS, Meredith W.: The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women. New York, Free Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 383 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Family and Relationships / Motherhood / Womens Studies. Book & jacket condition: Very Good. Some edge-wear to the top front flap and light wear… Read more about this item

BRIZENDINE, Louann: The Female Brain. New York, Broadway Books, 2006. Paperback, 279 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Brain-Psychology & Physiology / Female Psychology. Condition: Very Good. Light edge-wear to the extremities of the book-spine. No other visible defects. All pages clean and not marked. The biological foundations of human behavior – from a female perspective – clearly explained and analyzed for… Read more about this item

SEAGRAVES, Anne: Daughters of the West. Hayden, ID, Wesanne Publications, 1996. Trade Paperback, 176 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History – The American West / Women's Studies. Condition: Very Good Plus. Small crease found at the front cover's edge. Otherwise a copy in excellent condition with clean and unmarked pages. Fully illustrated throughout. Fascinating study of how the "West was won"… Read more about this item

BARKER-BENFIELD, G.J.: The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Towards Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America. New York, Harper and Row, 1977. First Paperback Edition. Originally published in 1976. Paperback, 352 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Women's Studies. Condition: Good. Slight curling to the covers. Line soiling to the interior front cover and endpaper. Some underlining of pages… Read more about this item