[Rarebooks] FS: 1931 Symposium on The New Woman

[Bob Petrilla]

Schmalhausen, Samuel D. & V.F. Calverton, eds. WOMAN'S COMING OF AGE: A
Symposium. NY: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. pp: xx, 569.  9.5" x
6"  Very Good. Original cloth.
Dedicated "to the promising future of the New Woman."  The realization that
"woman.has been the victim of a vast myth...which made her into a being
fashioned in keeping with man's will instead of in her own right" prompted
the gathering of these essays by 28 authors, including: Margaret Mead,
Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Robert Briffault, Havelock Ellis, Rebecca West,
and others. Signed on the endpaper by anthropologist Ashley Montagu.
$60.00

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