First Edition. "In her first book since Against Our Will, her landmark study of rape, Susan Brownmiller addresses another subject of immense significance: the set of societal structures, esthetic ideals, and assigned 'characteristics' which governs the lives of half of America, and which goes by the name of Femininity."—dust jacket.....

A promotional card, illustrated with a half-tone portrait, of an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools for mountainous Trinity County in far northern California. This card most likely dates from before 1911, when women won the right to vote in California. Katherine "Kittie" or "Kitty" O'Neil was born in California.....

First hardcover edition. A feminist science fiction satire, set on the penal planet where women who won't submit to the patriarchy are sent. This is the hardcover graphic novel issued for Local Comic Shop Day in November 2015, a month after the paperback original graphic novel came out. The series.....

A head-and-shoulder's portrait of the novelist Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919), the author of some 80 books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Barr, née Huddleston, was born in Lancashire, England, and emigrated to the US in 1853. Her first novel was published in 1872. Image, roughly 4 by.....

First Edition. A stand-alone graphic novel from the author of Persepolis. In this book, Satrapi imagines the women of her extended Iranian family sitting around drinking tea and talking about their relationships with men. The book was originally published in France. "As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their.....

A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows.....

A portrait of a Newhaven fish wife, one of the many women who worked in the fishing industry in 19th century Scotland. Men did most of the fishing and women gutted and prepared the fish and hauled the results to market. The fish women of Newhaven, a village north of.....

A gelatin silver print image of women working in a munitions factory assembling aerial bombs. A man, possibly the supervisor, stands on the opposite side of the table. A 48-star American flag hangs above them. Your cataloguer has no expertise in identifying bombs, but these seem somewhat more advanced than.....

One of Holmes' (a second generation British photographer working in Pakistan in the early twentieth century) finest art prints, a platinum print of a studio portrait of a young Pastun woman taken in the North-West Frontier Province of India (near what is Peshawar, Pakistan, today). Holmes is best known for.....

First Edition. With a foreword by Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Denfeld, an amateur boxer, takes on traditional notions of women's peacefulness. 182 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both.....

First Edition. A well-known example of the popular 18th century British genre of collective biographies of women, with more than a hundred short entries on women dating back to ancient times. The subjects include Cleopatra; Sappho; the poet Anne Killigrew, described as "a great genius"; the painter and calligrapher Esther.....

A small card promoting the candidacy of one of the first women to successfully run for elected office in Oregon. This piece includes a half-tone photograph of Susanne W. Homes, a candidate for Jackson County school superintendent. Her slogan, printed along the top of the card, was "Equal Opportunities for.....

First Edition. A very scarce guide to women's health, written by the first woman admitted to the American Medical Association. It is one of the first guides to women's health written by a female doctor. The Atwater collection of popular medicine included only the second and third editions, the annotations.....