Best of
Gender

1979

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978


Adrienne Rich - 1979
    It traces the development of one individual consciousness, "playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language". A. Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing. "I find in myself both severe and tender thoughts toward the women I have been, whose thoughts I find here".

The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation


Judy Chicago - 1979
    This definitive book on Chicago's masterwork, reveals more fully than ever before the art and the artist's expanded research into the rich history embodied in the installation.

Oliver Button Is a Sissy


Tomie dePaola - 1979
    “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . an attractive little book.”--School Library Journal

Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History


Klaus Theweleit - 1979
    First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist "warrior" through a study of the fantasies of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism.

The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work


Germaine Greer - 1979
    She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement.

Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It


Mirra Bank - 1979
    Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.

Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender


A. Nicholas Groth - 1979
    The standard reference on the psychology of rape, Men Who Rape presents a comprehensive clinical profile of sexual offenders with extensive information on counseling, prevention, and psychiatric treatment.

Black Foremothers: Three Lives


Dorothy Sterling - 1979
    Wells, th firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell, a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace. Through painstaking research, Sterling not only produces a fascinating account of three outstanding leaders; she also documents the role hitherto "faceless, nameless millions of African-American women" have played in shaping our culture and history. Reflecting and connecting the historical struggle of the years 1826 through 1954, Black Foremothers will captivate and inspire readers, young and old.

Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930


Leslie Woodcock Tentler - 1979
    Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities.

Women & the American Labor Movement


Philip S. Foner - 1979
    Includes a good section of illustrations.

The Collected Letters


Mary Wollstonecraft - 1979
    This is the only single-volume edition containing all Wollstonecraft's known correspondence.

Originals: American Women Artists


Eleanor Munro - 1979
    The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women-including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor-and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century.