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provides a less eulogistic analysis of Wollstonecraft’s life while maintaining its political slant, describing women as “the victims of vice and superstition”. Hays created a significant six-volume bio- graphical dictionary of 294 impressive women, her Female Biography (1803), in which Wollstonecraft was not included, making this a valuable and rare repository of material. Other notable obituaries included are those for Catherine the Great, Edmund Burke, and Antoine Lavoisier. £2,500 [123651] 168 (THE WOMEN’S PRESS.) DOWRICK, Stephanie & Florence Kennedy. [Five postcards by The Women’s Press.] London: The Women’s Press, 1982 Together 5 postcards, printed in grey, pink, and black. Very slight toning, else sharp and bright. In excellent condition. a striking series of anti-nuclear campaign postcards issued by the women’s press, the leading feminist publishing house. They feature five slogans: with “Don’t agonise, organise”, quoted from Florynce Kennedy, the African American civil rights activist, feminist, and lawyer, and the other four (“A feminist world is a nuclear-free zone”; “Nuclear war: a fate worse than all our deaths”; “Who will inherit the earth?”; “Will the ashes of ‘the enemy’ look any different to our own?”) composed by Stephanie Dowrick, co-founder of the Press. Established in 1978, the Press published a number of influential 20th-century feminist writers, including the first UK edition of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-win- ning work, The Color Purple . These postcards were issued to publicize Keeping the Peace , the first in a projected series of occasional women’s peace handbooks, published by the Press in 1983. £225 [130433] 169 (WOMEN’S SECTION: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.) VOW: Voice of Women. Special Issue on International Women’s Year. Lusaka, Zambia: A.N.C.— Women’s Section, 1975 Tall quarto, pp. 24. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Wrappers edges faintly toned, a little minor creases and couple of small marks, internally fresh. A very good copy. special issue of this important apartheid-era quarterly magazine, commemorating International Women’s Year (IWY),
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with the official logo for IWY on the front cover (the peace dove with the mathematical equal sign and the biological sign for women). Voice of Women “was intended to provide one of the crucial linkages between internal women’s organizations and the exiled movement. It was established in 1971 to mobilize South African women inside and outside the country into ANC structures; to lobby the interna- tional community to the ANC’s cause; and to ‘take up issues which affect women’” (Hassim, p. 93). As the African National Congress and its publications had been banned from South Africa in 1960, VOW was published in Zambia “under extremely difficult conditions . . . outdated and barely functioning machinery, poorly trained jour- nalists, and few financial and informational resources” (ibid.). Hassim, Shireen, Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Au- thority , University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. £175 [131294]
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