Action for Reproductive Freedom Pinback Button
Hampton, CT, [199-?]. A 1½” diameter pinback button in support of reproductive rights for women. "Uterine Slavery" is crossed through and encircled by the phrase "Action for Reproductive Freedom." More
Hampton, CT, [199-?]. A 1½” diameter pinback button in support of reproductive rights for women. "Uterine Slavery" is crossed through and encircled by the phrase "Action for Reproductive Freedom." More
Madison: Aurora, [197-?]. An 8 ½” x 11” two-sided flyer printed in color by the Broadside Press, a workers self-managed business. Some toning, faint foxing and soiling with a sliver missing from the top edge and corner, about VG. Features an illustration of a young girl pointing a gun to..... More
New York: Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition, [1973]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for the March 9-11, 1973, International Abortion Tribunal meant to “highlight the present attack directed against the New York abortion law and the struggles in other states and countries where crises are developing.” An agenda is..... More
Pittsburgh, Know, INC., 1971. First edition. Side-stapled 8 ½” x 11” sheets, 19 pp. Penciled price to cover sheet, else Fine. One copy in OCLC at Northwestern. A scarce Know title.A compilation of six items related Pittsburgh NOW’s struggle to “desexigrate the want-ads in the Pittsburgh Press.”Includes: “Want-ads Tomorrow: Neutral..... More
New York: The Feminists, [1969]. First edition. Five pink corner-stapled sheets (8 ½” x 11”), 10 pp. Some toning to edges, else a Fine copy. Five copies in OCLC.An illuminating organizational document of the The Feminists, the radical feminist organization founded in 1969 in NYC. Describes the group’s equality principle..... More
Atlantic Beach, Florida: Whitebook, 1970. An elegant broadside prospectus for printed in black & purple on thick white stock (17” x 5 ½”). Light wear, about Fine.Whitebook was advertised as “a quiet, trustworthy contact journal for women seeking the friendship of other women” while featuring poetry, literature reviews, art discussions..... More
New York: Red Women's Detachment, 1970-71. A broken, but significant, run of the organ of the Red Women’s Detachment, who in their 1970 draft constitution describe themselves as “the mass organization of proletarian women under the leadership of the MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY guided by Mao Tse Tung Thought.” The group emerged..... More
New York: Various publishers, 1913-1998. A small collection of publications by the Young Women’s Christian Association spanning nearly a century of their existence. All relatively uncommon in both commerce and in OCLC. Included in the collection and listed chronologically by publication date are:[PARKS, Leighton]. Loneliness. [New York]: Printed by request..... More
n.p.: n.p., [ca. 197-?]. A NOW flyer featuring a stark image of a skeleton Catholic priest attempting to hang a quintessential fifties housewife and captioned, “The State Says That You Must Pay For Your Sin of Abortion, My Child.” Distributed to oppose one of the proposed Human Life Amendments to..... More
New York: Committee to End Sterilization Abuse, [ca. 1975]. First edition. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 2 pp. illus. Horizontal fold, toning to newsprint, slight chipping at folds, about Near Fine. One copy in OCLC at Univ. of Wisc.A large format fact sheet from the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse..... More
London: [Women In Struggle, Rising Free Bookshop], [1978]. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (8 ” x 11 ¾”), 50 pp, illus. Light edge wear, a few surface scratches, VG+. Just over a dozen copies found in OCLC, none others in commerce (Oct. 2019).As described in an opening editorial, this publication..... More
San Francisco: The Women's Page, [1971]. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 8 pp. A single issue of this Bay Area feminist periodical with articles on labor, office politics, a long article on instructions for the overthrow of male supremacy, class, etc. Light toning to newsprint, but about Near Fine. More
[New York]: Women’s Health Action Movement, [1976]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for a Women’s Health Action Movement (WHAM) rally held on July 13 during the 1976 Democratic National Convention. WHAM was a direct action coalition of feminist and health groups that seems to have been organized specifically for..... More
[Cambridge?]: n.p., 1922. The physics notebook of the noted economist Dorothy C. Bacon kept during her 1922 academic year at Radcliffe College, in which she records eight experiments. These include 1.) plotting a graph of wavelengths and spectroscope readings 2.) comparing the absorption spectra for different thicknesses of dye 3.)..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; color illustrated endpapers; xiv, 273 pp.; 26 photographic plates. A memoir of the author's life in central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, in which she hunts big game in the wilds of the African jungle..... More
London: Sands & Company, 1901. First edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, others deckle; xxxii, 276 pp.; 12 photographic plates, more than two dozen in text photographs. Neatly ex-library. Unobtrusive call & personal library numbers to spine, a few penciled numbers to ffep and title..... More
San Francisco: The Women's Page, 1971. A single issue of the idiosyncratic second wave feminst publication that was often critical of the broader feminist movement. This criticism was developed by Lynn O’Connor in her essay, “The Prison Guards Stand In My Way,” included in this issue and later circulated as..... More
New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, [1951]. First edition. A scarce and early bibliography on the “Negro woman” compiled by Irene Epstein (the pseudonym of Marxist and feminist scholar, Eleanor Flexner) and organized into the following sections: I. Marxist Writings on the Negro Woman in the United States II..... More
Rochester, New York: New Women's Times, 1983. First edition. Tabloid newspaper printed on newsprint; 16 pp.; illus. Sub-titled "A review of literature and the arts issued six times a year as a regular supplement to the New Women's Times." Some browning to newsprint, a few nicks to edges; about Near..... More
Columbia: League of Women Voters of South Carolina, 1970. First edition. 8vo; orange, illustrated, stapled wrappers, 46 pp. A collection of recipes from members and friends of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Appetizers, soups, salads, meat, vegetables and desserts. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers and..... More
[Montreal], [1979?]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 23 pp, illus. Penned price to top corner, soiling along spine, VG+. Only two copies in OCLC (Cornell & UCLA). A compilation of material on the plight of women in India, apparently compiled and published by an unidentified group..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); pale yellow cloth lettered in purple; xxii, 298 pp.; dust jacket. Foreword by William L. Shirer. Autobiography of the Scottish Labour Party politician. Lee became an M.P. at twenty-four as a member of the left wing Independent Labour..... More
St. Louis, MO: Central Bureau Press, 1947. Later edition. Sixteenmo (16.5 x 11.5 cm). Green, stapled wrappers printed in black; 40 pp. A Near Fine copy with some very light toning and one sliver missing from top right corner. Unsurprisingly, the Central Bureau Press was a Catholic publishing imprint disseminating..... More
Washington, D. C.: Off Our Backs, inc., 1993. A single issue of this second wave feminist tabloid. This issue features a lengthy report from the Speech, Equality, and Harm Conference which focused on a feminist legal perspective on pornography and hate propaganda, articles on women in South Africa, a reprint..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First edition. Twelvemo. Pebbled, green cloth decoratively blind-stamped with gilt spine; brown endpapers; 295 pp. A novel from the early feminist, anti-vivisectionist and spiritualist most famous for her "The Gates Ajar." A Very Good copy with cloth rubbed; some chipping to crown; clean throughout..... More