Women in print : essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danky, James Philip, 1947-

Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-

Series:

Print culture history in modern America.

Print culture history in modern America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.

Women in the book industries and trade.

Women in the book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century.

Women--Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Women editors--United States--History.

Women editors.

Women publishers--United States--History.

Women publishers.

Libraries and women--United States--History.

Libraries and women.

Women authors, American.

Physical Description:

xxi, 308 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Print culture of American women from the 19th and 20th centuries

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signals, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.

Contents:

Connecting lives : women and reading, then and now / Barbara Sicherman

Cultural critique and consciousness raising : Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's tribune and late-nineteenth-century radical feminism / Kristin Mapel Bloomberg

"Her very handwriting looks as if she owned the earth" : Elizabeth Jordan and editorial power / June Howard

Making news : Marie Potts and the Smoke signal of the Federated Indians of California / Terri Castaneda

Unbossed and unbought : Booklegger Press, the first women-owned American library publisher / Toni Samek

Alice Millard and the gospel of beauty and taste / Michele V. Cloonan

Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin

A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley

Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet

Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins

"When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. Unger.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612270161

9781282270169

1282270168

9780299217839

0299217833

OCLC:

223384996

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06888 hdl

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access