SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Atheneum, 1970. Very good paperback copy (considerable yellow highlighting on text, only a few pen notes, previous owner's name stamped on every conceivable surface, but the good thing is this is an inexpensive, readable copy with secure binding). Reprint of the 1959 book originally published by Harvard University Press. 384 pages including bibliographical information and index. . Soft… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980. Very good (only defect is a few light foxing spots on page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. No markings. 240 pages including index. An historical and sociological treatment of the "American dream-house," the single-family dwelling.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Kansas City, MO: Helicon Nine, Inc., 1985. Very good copy (light edgewear) of this unusual, inventive journal. Includes the 33 1/3 rpm floppy record of Mary Lou Williams' "Mary Lou's Mass." Other notable contributors include Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Bourke-White (a photograph of Gandhi spinning), Edna St. Vincent Millay, Maxine Kumin, Helen Caldicott, Grace Paley. 178 pages including an extensive… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The Woman's Building, 1988. Very good+ (some browning and light edgewear along the stapled edge) without dust jacket of course. Heavy paper covers. 73 pages of women's writing exploring contemporary issues through fiction and poetry and autobiographical memoir, from different ethnic groups.. Soft Cover.

New York: Random House, 1988. Very good (water stain on upper part of spine and front cover, still quite presentable; clean inside) in Good+ dust jacket (aforementioned stain is quite noticeable on the inside of the dust jacket, exterior is fine). 200 pages including notes and bibliography. The TV psychologist's first book focuses on the issues and choices facing a… Read more about this item

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. Fine in very good dust jacket (rubbing, small scratches, one closed tear on top of front panel - see scan). 45 contemporary women in China speak out about their lives and the position of women in China in the 1980s. Includes photographs of the contributors. Author, deceased in 2007, was a writer for the Los… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1984. Very good (pages browning, a couple of light pen marks on front cover) paperback original. A panoply of statements--essays, fiction, poetry--of a "new" Southern feminism that crosses racial and class divisions: "white and black, debutantes and sharecroppers, poets and steelworkers, mothers and daughters," as described on the back cover. Barbara Neely, who later created the unstoppable… Read more about this item

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. Fine in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear and rubbing). 45 contemporary women in China speak out about their lives and the position of women in China today. Includes photographs of the contributors. Author, deceased in 2007, was a writer for the Los Angeles Times.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. Fine in fine dust jacket (one very small edgewear at a top corner). 45 contemporary women in China speak out about their lives and the position of women in China today. Includes photographs of the contributors. Author, deceased in 2007, was a writer for the Los Angeles Times.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.