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Blood ties: A woman's history
Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, short closed tear to back cover of dj) SIGNED hardcover first edition - San Francisco & New Moon Books / Random House,, (1976). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, short closed tear to back cover of dj). First printing. Part an account of the author's life - she was born in Yugoslavia in 1934, and with her family fled to Dalmatia during World War II, where they were interned on an Italian-controlled island - and part an oral history of her maternal grandmother (Hofbauer), a Jewish woman of Serbo-Croation heritage, who was 84 when this book was written. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Happy Birthday dear Sally and to us all" and signed as Ani, dated in San Francisco in 1978. Only of one 5000 copies. 297 pp.
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Published January 1, 1976
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October 3, 2022
"Feminist author Anica Vesel Mander, who founded the women's studies department at New College of San Francisco and gathered key evidence that would lead an international tribunal to declare rape a war crime, died of breast cancer in 2002.
In the early 1990s, Professor Mander traveled to what had been her native Yugoslavia. Her interviews with Bosnian rape victims were later used to transform the legal interpretation of that crime during war.
"She's one of the unsung heroines who both had the historical perspective on the former Yugoslavia and the academic perspective on women's causes," said Laurel Fletcher, a Boalt Law School professor who joined the fact-finding mission.
Known simply as Ani, Professor Mander founded a division of Random House called Moon Books in Berkeley. In 1976, it was considered the first feminist publishing house.
Professor Mander wrote books that touched women's lives, co-authoring "Feminism as Therapy" in 1974, and "Blood Ties, A Woman's History" in 1976. In that memoir, she interviewed her grandmother and, through the older woman's eyes, was able to tell her own dramatic life story.
Born in Yugoslavia five years before World War II, Professor Mander fled the Nazis with her family at age 7 and hid for years on an island in the Adriatic Sea. When the Nazis threatened that hideout, the family wound its way through Europe and, in 1949, arrived on Ellis Island.
English became her fourth language, in addition to French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian. Her father, also a linguist, led the family to California, where he taught at the Army's language school in Monterey. At UC Berkeley, Professor Mander earned a B.A. in Romance languages and a master's degree in comparative literature. In 1976, she earned a doctorate in women's studies from the Union Institute in Cincinnati.
A pivotal point came in the late 1960s when, as an instructor of French and Italian at San Francisco State University, she joined black students in a now- famous campus strike to demand ethnic studies courses. University President S. I. Hayakawa fired the young teacher, who filed and lost a sex-discrimination suit.
Afterward, she plunged into the feminist movement and devoted her life to issues of gender and racial equality.
In 1965, she married Jerry Mander, who was to become a prominent Bay Area radical. They had two sons, Kai and Yari. Although the Manders divorced in 1982, they remained close friends for the rest of her life.
Kai called his mother "amazing" and said that to many of her students, "she was a surrogate mother and trusted friend to those who needed a wise person to talk to."
Yari called her a "bridge-builder" among people." Written By
Nanette Asimov
In the early 1990s, Professor Mander traveled to what had been her native Yugoslavia. Her interviews with Bosnian rape victims were later used to transform the legal interpretation of that crime during war.
"She's one of the unsung heroines who both had the historical perspective on the former Yugoslavia and the academic perspective on women's causes," said Laurel Fletcher, a Boalt Law School professor who joined the fact-finding mission.
Known simply as Ani, Professor Mander founded a division of Random House called Moon Books in Berkeley. In 1976, it was considered the first feminist publishing house.
Professor Mander wrote books that touched women's lives, co-authoring "Feminism as Therapy" in 1974, and "Blood Ties, A Woman's History" in 1976. In that memoir, she interviewed her grandmother and, through the older woman's eyes, was able to tell her own dramatic life story.
Born in Yugoslavia five years before World War II, Professor Mander fled the Nazis with her family at age 7 and hid for years on an island in the Adriatic Sea. When the Nazis threatened that hideout, the family wound its way through Europe and, in 1949, arrived on Ellis Island.
English became her fourth language, in addition to French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian. Her father, also a linguist, led the family to California, where he taught at the Army's language school in Monterey. At UC Berkeley, Professor Mander earned a B.A. in Romance languages and a master's degree in comparative literature. In 1976, she earned a doctorate in women's studies from the Union Institute in Cincinnati.
A pivotal point came in the late 1960s when, as an instructor of French and Italian at San Francisco State University, she joined black students in a now- famous campus strike to demand ethnic studies courses. University President S. I. Hayakawa fired the young teacher, who filed and lost a sex-discrimination suit.
Afterward, she plunged into the feminist movement and devoted her life to issues of gender and racial equality.
In 1965, she married Jerry Mander, who was to become a prominent Bay Area radical. They had two sons, Kai and Yari. Although the Manders divorced in 1982, they remained close friends for the rest of her life.
Kai called his mother "amazing" and said that to many of her students, "she was a surrogate mother and trusted friend to those who needed a wise person to talk to."
Yari called her a "bridge-builder" among people." Written By
Nanette Asimov
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