Author: Wex, Marianne.

Publisher: Frauenliteraturverlag Hermine Fees, Berlin.

Format: Softcover oblong quarto, illustrated card wrappers, 366pp, 24 x 30cm.

Over 5000 images contained within sourced from advertisements, film, news reports, historical sources, and Wex’s own street photographs.

Originally shown in Berlin in 1977 as a photo exhibition in connection with the show Women Artists International, 1877 to 1977, this book is the first English edition of painter and teacher Marianne Wex’s (German, 1937–2020) major photographic work on male & female body language.

In 1974 Wex began to photograph “women and men in my environment in Hamburg, West Germany” and systematically sorted the images into upper rows consisting masculine, and lower rows consisting feminine, postures; chosen “because it appropriately mirrors patriarchal power structures.” Overlooked at its time of publication, Wex’s survey has re-surfaced as a major feminist study of the 1970s.

Creases to back cover, bumping, foxing to prelim pages and lightly to some interior pages.