Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence; final report, September 1984
Washington: 1984. vii, 157p., preface, statement of the chairman, conclusion, appendices, very good in original wraps. More
Cat.No: 122201
Abuse, abused
![The CUAV Dish: a newsletter for the friends of Community United Against Violence; vol. 1 #3 - vol. 5 #1, Aug. 1984 - April 1988 [13 issue broken run]](/pictures/thumb/198585.jpg?v=1484087517)
The CUAV Dish: a newsletter for the friends of Community United Against Violence; vol. 1 #3 - vol. 5 #1, Aug. 1984 - April 1988 [13 issue broken run]
San Francisco: Community United Against Violence, 1984-1988. Thirteen issue broken run of the newsletter, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, news, services, resources, events, photos, very good, some stapled, some nested sheets. San Francisco-based organization formed to counter-act gay-bashing and other acts of violent aggression of the streets of San Francisco. Issue... More
Cat.No: 198585
Domestic violence in the lesbian community; a panel discussion sponsored by New Leaf Outreach to Elders and Old Lesbians Organizing for Change ... January 12, 2003 .... San Francisco
San Francisco: New Leaf Outreach to Elders and Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, 2003. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed single side, two horizontal folds, very good on gray stock. More
Cat.No: 160633
![Stonewall presents slideshow and discussion, by Women against Violence and Pornography in the Media and Men against Sexist Violence [handbill]](/pictures/thumb/57207.jpg?v=1498702119)
Stonewall presents slideshow and discussion, by Women against Violence and Pornography in the Media and Men against Sexist Violence [handbill]
San Francisco: n. pub. [1980]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one-side only, toning to edges and edgewear, dog-eared, fair. The event was called to protest the movie "Windows" "You've heard about "Cruising"... United Artists has turned out another violent and anti-gay film - this one about a lesbian who hires... More
Cat.No: 57207
![Bastard Out of Carolina [signed ARC/Uncorrected Proofs]. Dorothy Allison.](/pictures/thumb/230808.jpg?v=1541040683)
Bastard Out of Carolina [signed ARC/Uncorrected Proofs]
New York: Dutton, 1992. Hardcover. 307p., signed by the author on title page, lightly-worn and soiled uncorrected proof copy in green printed wraps, chip on corner of rear cover. Proof copy, signed of the first novel by the Lambda literary award winner. Basis for a television movie directed by Angelica Huston. More
Cat.No: 230808
Drunk on God-Cult Salt Lake City
Gardena, CA: Parents Opposing Child Abuse, 1994. 36p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound pamphlet. Intersperses anti-Mormon poetry (describing the religion as satanic) with the author's descriptions of sexual abuse at the hands of his father, a Mormon missionary. More
Cat.No: 206505
Battle cries
London: Women's Aid Federation England, 1981. unpaginated, 5.75x8.25 inches, poems, afterword, very good in lightly-sunned original stapled pictorial wraps. Poems on the abuse of women. More
Cat.No: 110458
A kind and just parent, the children of juvenile court
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Hardcover. xviii, 206p., Very good in dj. More
Cat.No: 206040
With Sirens Screaming A Novel
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1945. Hardcover. 294p., first edition hardbound in openweave red cloth boards spine-titled white and black, in dust jacket. Casebinding is bright sound and clean with a small ding to one margin and a small sunned area at the heel, while jacket is very... More
Cat.No: 183403
300 families in San Francisco: an evaluation of services to San Francisco's most vulnerable parents and children
San Francisco: Coleman Children and Youth Services, February 1983. 107p. plus unpaginated acknowledgements, captioned photos throughout with minimal stats; first edition oblong 5.5x8.5 inch glossy cardstock wraps, mildly edgeworn, a good copy. More
Cat.No: 166092
Gender violence and women's human rights in Africa
New Brusnwick: Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994. iv, 42p., 5.25x8.5 inches, preface, foreword, essays, footnotes, small discolored strip at top of front cover otherwise a very good first edition in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 134084
Ministering to victims of family violence; a conference of clergy, seminarians. religious educators and leaders; Wednesday, October 3th, 1985, First Congregational Church, Oakland California
Oakland: The California Youth Authority et al, 1985. unpaginated, 8.5x11 inches, about 200 photo-copied sheets in stapled wraps. various papers, tables and graphs relating to the conference. More
Cat.No: 112980
Frisk a novel
New York: Grove Press, 1991. Hardcover. 128p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. A thirteen year-old boy finds photos of a horribly abused and disfigured boy whom he meets years later. More
Cat.No: 25444
Frisk a novel
New York: Grove Press, 1991. Hardcover. 128p., signed by Cooper on the title page, 128p., previous owner's signature, otherwise very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. A thirteen year-old boy finds photos of a horribly abused and disfigured boy whom he meets years later. More
Cat.No: 41620
Frisk a novel
New York: Grove Press, 1991. Hardcover. 128p., signed by Cooper on the title page, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. A thirteen year-old boy finds photos of a horribly abused and disfigured boy whom he meets years later. More
Cat.No: 154862
Frisk a novel
New York: Grove Press, 1991. Hardcover. 128p., personal inscription, signed by Cooper on the title page, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. A thirteen year-old boy finds photos of a horribly abused and disfigured boy whom he meets years later. More
Cat.No: 189417
A Sexual Tour of the Deep South: poems
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Hardcover. 97p., very good first edition in orange boards and price-clipped orange dj. Powerful, aggressive and transgressive poetry on the violence and abuse of women by men especially in the US South. More
Cat.No: 230807
![The Girdle of Chastity: a medico-historical study [cover title: Chastity Girdles]. Eric John Dingwall.](/images/noimage.png)
The Girdle of Chastity: a medico-historical study [cover title: Chastity Girdles]
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. Paperback. 164p. + index, footnotes, illustrated with drawings, small ownership signature and a note "What kind of ass would do this to any woman?" mild foxing to covers and edges otherwise a very good trade paperback in green and white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 234526
Misoginia del odio a la obsesión: análisis para una investigación sobre la posible existencia de la misoginia entre las mujeres
Chilpancingo: Editado por Llama, [1990s]. 52p., 5.5x8.5 inches, text in Spanish, very good first edition booklet in rubbed stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 184635
The criminalization of a woman's body
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1992. 221p., introduction, footnotes, notes, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 189139
The Myths of the Establishment
Venice CA: Green Trees Press, 1979. Paperback. vii, 88p., softbound first edition in 9x6 inch glossy wraps; rather edgeworn with a badly bent head from poor storage, else sound, no internal markings besides a presentation inscription signed by author's wife Ruth (author died of leukemia prior to publication). Laid in... More
Cat.No: 191240
A World without Tears; The case of Charles Rothenberg
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1990. xiii, 136p., illustrated with appended doodles in facsimile as analyzed by a therapist; hardbound in 9x6 inch black cloth boards spine-titled white. Lacks the publisher's dj, a clean sound copy without any markings. More
Cat.No: 220330
Perspectives on Child Maltreatment in the Mid '80s
Washington DC: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, 1984. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reports, footnotes, resources, some underlining and bracketing otherwise good booklet in stapled b&w pictorial wraps. DHHS Publication # (OHDS) 84-30338. On Child Abuse. More
Cat.No: 231856
![Child Abuse: The diagnostic Process and Treatment Programs [with] Working With Abusive Parents From A Psychiatric Point Of View [two items together]. Ray E. Helfer, Brandt F. Steele.](/pictures/thumb/222281.jpg?v=1518663922)
Child Abuse: The diagnostic Process and Treatment Programs [with] Working With Abusive Parents From A Psychiatric Point Of View [two items together]
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975. Pamphlet. Respectively 44, 25p., two pamphlets softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch stapled wraps, matching formats; laid into one is an introductory letter on HEW letterhead. Clean and sound, very good copies, sold as a pair. DHEW publication nos. (OHD) 75-69, 75-70... More
Cat.No: 222281
The violent sex; male psychobiology and the evolution of consciousness
Guerneville, CA: Bluestocking Books, 1978. Paperback. 254p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 26321