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On a whim The Partner and I stopped by the city library after dinner this evening and lo! they were having a book sale! A $1-A-BAG book sale. I love local book sales as university professors donate their books, which means you can often find great academic nonfiction, which the nerd/geek in me loves to gobble up. My half of the bag was worth way more than a dollar:
- Revolt of the Second Sex by Julie Ellis (1970)
- Teaching As a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner (1972 Penguin edition)
- On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers (1961 Sentry edition)
- Unlearning the Lie: Sexism in School by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1973)
- Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture edited by Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt (1985)
- Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer (1985)
- The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner (1986)
- Ourselves, Growing Older: Women Aging with Knowledge and Power (1987) by Paula Brown Doress and Diana Laskin Siegal and The Midlife and Older Women Book Project in cooperation with the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
You can find this book in some libraries and for sale online, but descriptions and summaries are hard to find. The first page copy reads:
THE NEO-FEMINISTS—
SEVENTIES STYLE
They come in all sizes and shapes. From micro-skirted teeny-boppers to successful lady lawyers to matronly grandmothers bored with the garden club. Freedom, equality, acceptance—they all want the same things. The ways they plan to get them are different—they run the gamut from ladylike persuasion to riotous overthrow. This book describes the ladies, how they feel and what they’re planning to do—today and tomorrow!
REVOLT OF THE SECOND SEX
THE FIRST AND ONLY FULL-
LENGTH REPORT ON TODAY’S WOMEN
AND THEIR FREE-SWINGING LIFE STYLES.
Chapters range from “Female Liberation Movement”, detailing women’s liberation groups, to “Our Archaic Abortion Laws” which discusses the then-current status of abortion law and practice.
I have the Delta edition, which was probably printed in the 1990s. I like having early editions, and multiple editions, of books. I’m weird that way.
I’m not sure if I heard about this book through Jensen, but I’ve heard of it somewhere and thought I’d pick it up. Pay no attention to the pre-existent pile of books in front of the full bookcases.
Another book with little online information. From what I read on the book cover: The author got together with other parents to form a “Sex-roles Committee” at “Woodward School, a private, interracial, nonsectarian, parent-teacher cooperative in Brooklyn” “to explore the ways in which Woodward might be perpetuating ‘mind- and spirit-debilitating stereotypical sex roles’.”
This is an anthology of 12 scholarly essays. Back cover reads:
This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and to practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. [...]
The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other current critical discourses, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas.
I also have the 2004 edition of this book. And, I still have yet to read it.
This find made my day. This is volume one of Lerner’s Women and History series. I’m still on the look-out for volume two, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy.
There is a “newer” (1994) edition currently available, but I figured I would check this out. Not that I’m their target audience as far as age goes—but I enjoy their Our Bodies, Ourselves and this text should be just as informative.
I love book sales.
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Nice finds! Book sales are one of my favorite ways to spend money. It was all worth while since I found a copy of the Official Preppy Handbook. How did it survive until the first dollar bag day?