702 pages, two-tone cloth boards, with titles embossed on the spine, the spine edges rubbed and a little wear to top and bottom edges, wrapper dusty and a little faded, spine sunned and a few small edge chips, contents very good+, some light margin lines in pencil, we think it was a review copy as others from this collection were, several old news-cuttings loosely inserted, heavy octavo. 1953. NOTE* The book divided into two parts looking at the female in history and in the "Modern" world. a study in feminism and the biology of women, anthropology, sociology, medicine and psychiatry. But mainly the place women have held and the lives they have led and are leading.